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Built a free CFA Level I prep tracker because I was sick of spreadsheets — here's how it works

Okay so I'm a CFA L1 candidate and like most of you I started with a spreadsheet to track my syllabus progress... and like most of you that spreadsheet turned into chaos within a week. Tabs everywhere, no idea what % I'd actually covered, manually calculating exam weights in my head every time I wanted to know if I was "on track."

https://preview.redd.it/5opxravmqeah1.png?width=1862&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d72dc24e9c7ac327660e10161f118f41b7fcb89

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So I spent a weekend building myself a proper tracker instead, and it actually turned out way better than I expected, so I figured I'd share it here in case it helps anyone else.

What it actually does:

It's pulled directly from the official 2026 CFA Level I topic outline — all 11 subjects, every single chapter, with the real exam weight ranges (Ethics at 15-20%, Quant at 6-9%, all of it). Nothing made up, straight from the curriculum.

>A few things I built into it because I needed them myself:

  • A dashboard that shows your weighted progress (so finishing a chapter in Ethics actually counts for more than finishing one in Derivatives, because, well, it's worth more on the exam)

  • A syllabus tracker where you just tick a chapter as done — Tick the chapter, and every graph and the dashboard updates instantly behind it.

https://preview.redd.it/lmg6ot3breah1.png?width=1870&format=png&auto=webp&s=df2a1ee63ed25aa8f2246447262d01b694eb9291

  • a theme switcher in the top-right next to the exam date: Dark 🌙 / Light ☀️ / Pleasant 🍂 (the pleasant one is a warm sepia tone). It saves your choice to local storage too, so it remembers your preference next time you open the file, and all the charts redraw with readable colors for whichever mode you pick.

  • A question bank tracker for whatever prep providers you use (Obviously LES Questions are mandatory)

https://preview.redd.it/ssprhq9tqeah1.png?width=1917&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb2df5a2e45c04113b2e6ad6a71b9e69841a17a9

  • A revision tracker that's separate from your first pass — because round 1 is just getting familiar, round 2 is where you actually start feeling confident, and it deserves its own progress bar instead of getting lumped in with "syllabus complete."

https://preview.redd.it/mwcuay1rqeah1.png?width=1917&format=png&auto=webp&s=758ca3ffb27d820d5820c50cc9cf814d6918630e

  • A countdown to your exam date, weight allocation charts, a burn-down chart comparing your actual pace to where you "should" be — basically all the dashboard candy that makes you feel like you're actually in control of this thing instead of just hoping for the best.

The important bit: it autosaves to your browser's local storage automatically. No login, no account, no syncing to some server somewhere — you just open the file, it remembers everything, you close it, you reopen it later and your progress is exactly where you left it. It genuinely never leaves your laptop.

It's a single HTML file. No installation, no dependencies you need to set up, just open it in your browser and go.

I've been using it myself for the past few weeks of prep and it's honestly made tracking feel way less overwhelming, so wanted to put it out there.

Let me know what you think, and drop a comment if you'd want this for L2/L3 as well, or if there's a feature you'd want added — genuinely happy to keep improving it based on feedback.

CFA L1 TRACKER DEMO

Comment "TRACKER" to get your own

u/Primary-Honeydew-234 — 2 months ago