Your kid's chores, exercising, quitting smoking, your approaching vacation… do these have anything in common? Not really, except for the fact that they are all things that you can track on a calendar. You know what I mean, the kind you used to buy and hang on the wall, that's now been replaced by your BlackBerry/laptop/PlayBook calendar. Well now you can get back the satisfaction of marking off those days with Streaking for your BlackBerry PlayBook.
This app by Edward Lahrs is as simple as it gets. You can start a new calendar by adding a new Streak Type. From there a blank calendar opens, and when you touch a day on the calendar it places a nice red X on the square. Streaking keeps a running tally of how many days in a row you've marked, as well as the longest streak you've had to date. You are allowed multiple calendars for whatever you need to keep track of. Simply add a new streak from the main screen with the new topic and you're all set. This is a great visual method for keeping motivated on your way to a new goal, or for keeping track of any number of things in your life. Best of all, Streaking is free!
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Reader comments
Streaking by Edward Lahrs - Keep track of goals on your BlackBerry PlayBook!
I can see a use for this... it will be motivating to be able to put that X on days I work out. And it will be very evident when I don't!
This is a fantastic little app. Not the most stylish, but it does one thing and it does it well. I have been using this for a couple of weeks now and I find it quite useful.
If the developer is paying attention, I think it would be cool to track activities by a different interval than "daily". I know that would be tricky, and it's not a must, but it would improve the utility of this nifty little program.
Thanks for the postive feedback. That isn't a bad idea. Are you talking that after 7 days in a row start tracking by weeks? Or do you mean something like doing an activity every Wednesday and track how many consecutive weeks this task was completed. By a certain day wouldn't be too bad, but figuring out how many weeks if it were done on a different day each week. It is something I will have to look into. Been busy with other things and haven't done much with the apps in awhile, but I will look into implementing these.
Thanks.
Nice app