Initially this was to address the many requests I get for Mac, iPhone versions.
By going web-based, I can provide HS for users anywhere/anytime, and add many other useful features.

I will announce a “Join the Beta” program when there’s something for you to try.

Note: I will continue to support the software version, and any purchases will go towards the new web-based version when it’s available.

Update to version 2.0.2.2, and everything should be fine.
(from within the program go to Help > Check For Updates)

If you haven’t already, check out his blog and subscribe to his feeds. He has interesting takes on habit change, and plenty of working experience to back up his claims.

You can also see a guest post I wrote, excerpted below:

Starting habits isn’t very hard. We all have habits that we started with ease, and keep up with religiously. Of course, I am talking about habits like hitting the snooze button and ducking under the pillow every morning.
However, waking up before dawn when you’re used to 10am or noon, now that takes a lot of willpower.

“Just do it!” you’d have to tell yourself.

That’s what it’s all about, right? Willpower?

I had thought so too…

Read the rest at the bad habits blog.

I hope this bug wasn’t causing headaches!

À la prochaine!
Adriano

In any case, all fixed, and I didn’t have to be late for Christmas dinner

• study for 3 hours every day
• Practice French for 1 hour and a half, every M/W/F
• Reduce watching TV to 1 hour per day…

… now you can!

To create goals like these, just type in the format “hours:mins” for your starting and goal values.

Later that day:
Alright, it is fixed.
During the installation of .NET, the progress bar isn’t very responsive though.

I’ll get to fixing that next.

I am working hard to track down and fix this problem.

Will update you soon.

UPDATE: I figured out where the problem is. As a temporary fix, if you go to this site and it says that you have anything less than .NET 3.5 SP1, you can download the file it tells you to get.

That should fix it.

Sorry about this, new users!

It was harder than expected towards the end, especially since I slacked a on the 18th-20th, and on the penultimate weekend.

However, it was definitely within the realm of possibility. Especially now that it has helped me realize some important improvements to the ‘Project’ target calculations.

Before I started this grueling Project goal, the project targets were being calculated with the ’start slowly’ idea. I realized that, though this works brilliantly for shaping habits, it is somewhat counter-productive with ‘Project’ goals, where the total is what counts.

Also, because of the structure of the formulas I was using, if I skipped a day or more with this goal, HabitShaper would take the words I needed to make up for, and spread them throughout all the remaining days. If we were machines, this would be the sensible thing to do… but as it was, it’s main effect was to make me think “Well, missing a day isn’t such a big deal.”

This was a great learning experience, and I am glad I got to use HS for this goal, since I am it’s harshest critic.

The good news is, I improved the Project formulas, and updated the app for you (from HS: Help > Check For Updates).
I also fixed a crash when you input the last value of a Project goal.

Now I can focus more energy into improving HabitShaper in time for the New Year’s Resolutions 2010 spike!