Is the setup time the real issue here, or is it the guilt of seeing blank boxes staring back at you every day? Think about it, when you had weeklies, you were basically committing to a tiny art project every Sunday, and that pressure can mess with your head more than the actual tracking. Monthly layouts have this weird way of forgiving you for bad days, like a whole missed week just becomes a gray spot instead of a glaring hole in your daily grid. I found my weekly pages were more about the ritual of making them than the habit data itself, and once that ritual was gone, the habits became less about showing up and more about just being honest with what actually happened. The scratch page thing is key, that's where all the real context lives, and maybe the minimal layout is forcing you to separate the tracking from the thinking, which honestly sounds healthier. So is the weirdness you're feeling actually just withdrawal from the pretty pages, not the system itself?

That lye bath did more in 3 days than my last relationship did in 3 years.