Decision. No Analytics

Let’s remind ourselves of Steady Stride’s goal: to give users a feel for the total time invested in a commitment—often over a very, very long period.

Priority: Simplicity

So what really matters? Helping users consistently log their time over years.

Let’s break it down: these three logs end up with nearly the same total time, but the effort required to track them is vastly different.

• 12 logs of 30 hours → 360 hours
• 52 logs of 7 hours → 364 hours
• 365 logs of 1 hour → 365 hours

Will you really care about a variance of ±20 hours by the end of the year? Personally, I’d be much happier knowing I tracked something all year long and seeing, “I put a lot of time into this.”

So Why Bother With Analytics?

To have analytics, you need data. And data follows the golden rule: Garbage in, garbage out. If you want meaningful insights, you need good inputs. Otherwise, the results don’t make sense—or worse, they mislead.

Now, let’s talk about the user experience. When I see analytics, I feel pressured to be diligent. I forget to track for three days? The energy needed to go back and be perfectly accurate? No way. And just like that… my analytics are useless. Which, in turn, kills my motivation to log anything at all.

And let’s say I was a tracking machine, logging every single session without fail. Even then, do I really care about my average session length? Or my most productive timeslot? Or if I’m off by 20 hours at the end of the year? Not really.

Analytics Don’t Align With Steady Stride’s Mission

Steady Stride is about flexible, long-term tracking. Log your time ad-hoc—sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly. It doesn’t matter. You’ll still get a solid approximation of your total investment by year’s end.

That’s freedom.