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whether you'd like to remind yourself to write in your journal or what are the house plans there are many handy smartphone and tablet apps out there to keep you on task good habits is one of the simplest to use it's a free download for iPhone users and helps record daily activities plug-in the habits you'd like to keep track of set alarms to remind you for a specific time of day and then see how many consecutive days you can stay on task overdue habits will show up in red but you can also pause habits without breaking your streak the habit factor is also a free app available to both iPhone and Android users this app distinguishes the difference between goals and habits for example say your goal is to run a marathon by the end of the summer then it would make sense to build good habits of running regularly to build up distance this app contract both and easily disabilities the information in a graph whichever app you choose both will only be successful if you can keep up the good habit of updating your progress in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News