Adding a Custom Tracker

You can add a Custom Tracker to focus on particular goals, habits, or results you want to achieve. Using the Custom Tracker, you can add subtasks and steps to a new Tracker. This feature is available with your Zen Mastery Subscription.

You can use this feature to track a more in-depth process that you use daily, such as:

• If you want to expand your focus or develop a new habit, you can set some goals and then track your success in meeting those goals.
• An author might track their work each day, based on where they are in the narrative or how many hours they worked.
• A person with a chronic illness might want to track a more specific list of symptoms and how their circumstances might affect those symptoms over time.
  Case in point: A person with Diabetes might want to track their daily fasting blood sugar level and how many grams of sugar they consumed.

In the example below, I am creating a Custom Tracker to monitor my fasting blood sugar levels and my daily sugar intake. This will help me see how the food I eat affects my blood sugar results.

It makes sense to choose quantifiable metrics when you create a Custom Tracker so you can see tangible results in the relationship in the data you are collecting.

To add a Custom Tracker:

1.       Click the Daily Check-In icon and click the button. The Configure Custom Tracker box displays.

2.       In the Title field, enter the subject of your Tracker and click + Add Item to Track.
This is where you add the items you are going to measure.
In this case, I add Fasting Blood Sugar levels and Number of Grams of Sugar Consumed.

The Configure Custom Tracker expands.

3.       In the Name field, enter the name of the first item you want to track.
The Enabled check box is already selected. You can uncheck this box to remove the item from the Tracker.

4.       To select a Tracker Type, click the list button and choose from the available options:

• Slider (default, shown above) lets you use a slider to keep track of your progress.
  Sliders are helpful if you are a visual person, and there are few steps to achieving your goal.
• Incrementer (below) gives you a way to use numbers to track a goal.
  This is more helpful if you have multiple steps to achieve a particular goal.

5.       In the Min Value field, enter the minimum value for the Tracker. Typically, this is 1 or 0

6.       In the Max Value field, enter the last number you need for the Tracker.

7.       In the Step field, enter the number of steps you want the Tracker to support to go from the Min Value to the Max Value.
For example: Use the:

• Slider to represent a range of values. This is great for large ranges. For example, an author might want to use a slider to track the word count for the day and they know they write anywhere between 0 - 10,000 words a day.
• Incrementer (below) to represent a number that can be increased or decreased. This is great for a narrow range of values. For example, an author might want to use an incrementer to track how many hours were spent working on their novel, using a range of 0-8.

8.       In the Default Value field, enter the minimum value for the tracker.

• For the Slider, the button should be all the way to the left.
• For the Incrementer, select the lowest value.

9.       In the Min and Max Value Label fields, enter a name for the lowest and highest values you are tracking.

• For a Slide or an Incrementer, in this example, you could enter the value Low in the Min Value Label field and High in the Max Value Label field.

10.   To add additional entries to the list, click + Add Item to Track and follow steps 3 through 9 to add the new criteria for the item.

11.   When you have added all the items to the Custom Tracker, click Save to save these entries. The items you added display showing the minimum settings below the Health Tracker.