> [!tldr] A habit that makes other habits happen I feel like a note like this already exists, but I cannot find it, so here it is again. "**Keystone Habit**" is the term I've either heard or come up with to describe important (and most often, small) things you do that enable and "prop up" a lot of other important things. Easier to explain with some examples. → Patting your pocket for your keys = habit → Always putting your keys in the same basket, allowing you to put reminders for errands you need to do in the car in the same basket = *keystone habit* Other examples: - [[Weekly Review]]s let you "hook" other things into the process, like clearing your [[Inbox]] - Building my [[PDW|Data Journal]] was a hobby, then a habit. Build on top of that are [[Quantified Weekly Review]]s. It became the [[De Facto]] place to "hook" other things I'd like to track into. - My [[Streaks]] app "Used Streaks" streak - basically just a button I press each day that keeps track of the number of days in a row I push the button. This *itself* is useless... but because I need to open streaks to push that button I see my other Streaks every day and it reminds me to do them to push those buttons (which are valuable). **** # More ## Source - self