Notch · Creative
Track songs written on iPhone. Log each completion, build toward 12 or 24 songs this year, and handle revision months without a streak penalty. Free.
Songwriting doesn't follow a schedule. You might write three songs in a week when you're inspired, then spend the next three weeks finishing none while you work through a difficult bridge. The creative process isn't linear, and any tool built around daily check-ins will fight it.
A daily writing habit tracker for songwriting creates a problem: it measures whether you showed up, not whether you finished anything. You can check in every day and have nothing completed. You can disappear for three weeks into revision and emerge with one finished track.
Song completion is the only number that matters to an annual goal. Twelve songs. Twenty-four. Each one counts when it's done, not when you sat at the piano.
A completion tracker adds a dot when the song is finished. The writing sessions that led to it, and the revision weeks that followed, are all part of one dot. The count reflects the output.
A prolific songwriter completes 2 to 4 songs per month. Many complete one or two per month with long drafting and revision periods in between.
Songs are finished things. Each completion adds one to the count. Some months produce three finished songs; some produce none while you revise. Annual songwriting goals measure the catalog, not the daily writing habit.
Spending three weeks on one difficult song looks like a zero-session streak to a daily check-in tracker. The count stays at 10 finished songs while the tracker shows an empty month.
Two songs per month reaches 24 in a year. A month of deep revision on one track still contributes one completion to the total.
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A milestone tracker for iPhone. Set a target for songs written, log each song, and watch the dot grid fill. No streaks. No resets. No subscription.
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