Tangerine: Self-care & Goals

You can’t create a habit and select morning and afternoon or evening concurrently, you have to create the same habit twice or three times (so if you are trying to take a medication 3x/day you need to create the same habit 3 separate times and select the time of day for each one 😒). Big waste of time for setting up things you want to do during both a morning and evening routine. You also can’t just edit a habit if your schedule changes—you have to archive and create a new habit and you can’t even just copy it and change the settings. This is just a huge time waster and totally inefficient. The best thing about it is the journaling prompts and recording your moods. I never even really got many habits entered because it took so long to do it. It would have taken hours to get everything entered in the way I wanted it. Also if there’s a way to export my data out of this app it isn’t easy to find. I’ve had the app since 2021 and have barely used it because of how inconvenient it is to set up, so I’ve decided it’s time to move on to something else that I can set up quickly and easily so that I can actually use. I’ve just been throwing money away on this for a long time because I wanted to like it. I’m finally over it.

This app is amazing. I am working hard on self-care, because before therapy, I couldn’t even articulate what kinds of activities made me happy anymore. And even now that I’m working on self-care consciously, it’s still hard for me to remember what my go-to options are. I freaking love that I can create my own menu of self-care activities (“habits”) AS WELL AS document my mood/briefly journal. If I know that I need a moment to take care of myself, I can open the app and it eliminates the hurdle of “uhhh how do I even self-care again!? Lemme just go drink.” It helps me see the connection between self-care and my own happiness—and motivates me to keep taking care of myself. Thank you so much to the developers. Edit — some caveats and things I wish would get fixed (taking off one star): There is some glitchiness whenever I try to check off tasks. The confetti is cool, but it slows down the app to the point where I have to wait about 5 seconds before my phone unfreezes. Also, the swipe function goes off way too easily. I am constantly having to undo “completed tasks” because my finger tapped the screen slightly weird and now the app thinks I completed a task, when I really just meant to scroll down. These glitches are getting to the point where I’ve stopped using the app as much. I really hope they can be fixed!

I’ve really been enjoying this app! I’ve had it downloaded for a few months now and its really helped me stay conscious of what I need to do and also it’s a good feeling to be able to feel accomplished by checking things off of my habit list. The only thing that would make it better is if I was able to make a “To do” list with out having to make it a daily or scheduled recurring habit. For example “send out thank you cards, or make a phone call” etc. I’m also not a big fan of not being able to delete habits after they are created, only because I had messed up and only had a task that I had to complete for a week. (Pet sitting) so I just had to Archive it. Which I do understand the concept behind why it’s encouraged not to delete a habit, and it makes sense. Over all I really do appreciate this app and the help it brings! And I hope one day some sort of daily or random “to do” lists will be created! <3