Thirty-Day Challenge Tracker

Who this is for

Thirty days of one thing, ticked. Write the challenge in your own words at the top, tick each day it happened and add a short note if there is one; the days done and the days still to go are counted for you on screen and in the workbook.

Anyone giving something a month — a walk every day, a page of writing, an early night, no spending, a language app — who wants the month on one page rather than scattered across a phone.

What this helps you track

• Which of the thirty days the challenge happened on
• How many days are done and how many are left, counted for you
• An amount for each day, if your challenge is one you count — pages, minutes, lengths
• A line a day for what made it easy or hard

How to use it

1. Write the challenge at the top in a sentence you could say out loud, the date you start and what counts as done — decide that before day one, not on day nine.
2. Each day, tick the box if it happened. Leave it blank if it did not; a blank is information, not a failure.
3. Add a note when there is something worth remembering — what got in the way, what helped, how it felt.
4. If the challenge is something you count — pages written, minutes walked — put the number in the amount column; it is totalled for you on screen and in the workbook, and can stay blank otherwise.
5. The days done and days left are counted in the browser and the workbook; on paper, count the ticks when you feel like it.
6. At the end of the thirty days, read the notes before you read the count. They are the useful part.

Formats

• Printable PDF (A4 and US Letter)
• Fillable PDF with form fields
• Fill in online, saved in your browser
• Excel / Google Sheets workbook

The printable is laid out inside a box that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the two files are identical and neither one is scaled. The fillable PDF has real form fields. The workbook uses plain formulas only — SUM, IF, COUNTIF and the like — so it opens in Excel, LibreOffice and Google Sheets without anything breaking, and every calculated cell is grey so you can see which figures it worked out.

How to print

Download the A4 or US Letter file to match the paper in your printer, open it in a PDF reader and print at 100% — not "fit to page", which shrinks the writing space. Both files leave a 14 mm margin, which clears the unprintable edge on home printers. To print the online version with your entries in it, use the Print this sheet button, which prints only the sheet and none of the page around it. More on printing.

Questions

What kind of challenge is it for?

Any that has a yes-or-no answer each day. If you cannot say at bedtime whether it happened, the wording needs tightening before you start, not the sheet.

Does missing a day reset anything?

No. The count is of days done, not of days in a row. If an unbroken run is what you want to see, the streak and quit tracker counts that instead.

Is there a target number of days I am meant to hit?

No. The sheet counts the ticks and leaves the judgement to you. A month with twenty ticks in it may be exactly what you were after, or not; the sheet has no opinion.

Can I run more than one challenge at once?

Print a sheet for each, or use the habit tracker, which has a row per habit and a column per day of the week.