Features

Concepts

The key Tickbuddy concept is the track. Tracks represent the habit, event, or occurrence to be tracked daily (Exercise, Cups of coffee, CI pipeline failure). The track value on a particular day is called a tick (Exercise on 2 Jan: Yes, Cups of coffee on 24 Oct: 2).

Each track has a type, and as of today there are two types: Yes/No and Counter. More track types are planned.

Some clients (specifically Tickcli and TickLLMe; web and Android will follow) already support attaching a short note to each tick (e.g. Run cut short: injury flared up, Backup completed successfully at 23:51).

Tracks can optionally be marked as private, which means that clients should not show them by default unless requested.

Tracks can be archived, which means that they become read-only and clients should not show them, but the full history is kept. Archived tracks can be restored.

Existing functionality

Key features available now:

• Tickbuddy (backend)
  • stores tracks, ticks, notes
  • track types Yes/No and Counter
  • tracks can be marked as private
  • tracks can be archived and restored, renamed, deleted, reordered
  • everything is exposed through APIs which all of the clients leverage
• Tickbuddy (web UI)
  • track management
  • Edit Journal and View Journal screens
  • per track Analytics screen
  • dashboard widget
  • export and import functionality
• Tickdroid
  • connect to Tickbuddy with an app password
  • journal screen to view and tick
  • full track management including add, rename, reorder, toggle private, archive/restore, delete
  • interactive home screen widgets
  • app settings including light and dark mode, journal grid density, etc.
• Tickcli (“tickly”)
  • connect to Tickbuddy with Login Flow v2 or an app password
  • comprehensive set of read and write commands (including notes, not yet available on the web or Android)
  • pretty-print output to terminal, plain output when piped, optional JSON output
• TickLLMe (“tickle me”)
  • a ready-made extension (.mcpb) for Claude Desktop, and a plugin for Claude Code
  • connect to Tickbuddy with an app password or piggyback on an existing Tickcli login
  • three permission levels (read only; also record ticks; also add and rename tracks)

Roadmap

These are some of the major planned features. Feel free to get in touch if you have another request.

• UI updates for web and Android
• Ping URLs for further automation integrations, e.g. home automation and TickRED for Node-RED
• Attaching short notes to ticks in Tickbuddy and Tickdroid
• Additional track types (numbers and custom lists)
• Setting and tracking of targets, goals and expectations
• Defining groups of tracks
• Improved analytics
• Migration options from other tools
• Support for translations and improved accessibility
• Maybe even a smartwatch app