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Habit Tracker

Build routines with flexible goals, streaks, and reviews

Overview

The Habit Tracker helps you build and keep recurring routines. You define what you want to do and how often — the Today view shows what's up each day, while streaks and reviews show how consistent you really are.

Creating Habits

Create habits from a template or from scratch:

  • Give each habit a name, description, icon, and color
  • Templates are grouped by direction — build a routine or reduce something — and pre-fill goal and rhythm
  • Set a start date and an optional end date
  • Organize habits with shared tags

Rhythm & Frequency

Choose how often the habit is scheduled:

  • Daily - The habit is scheduled every single day
  • Specific weekdays - Only on the days you pick, e.g. Monday, Wednesday, Friday
  • X times per week - A flexible weekly target — you decide which days
  • X times per month - A flexible monthly target for less frequent routines

Goals & Units

Habits go beyond simple checking off:

  • Minimum goals - Reach at least a target, e.g. read 30 minutes per day
  • Maximum goals - Stay under a limit, e.g. at most 3 coffees per day
  • Target period - Targets count per day, per week, or per month
  • Successful days - In successful-days mode, weekly and monthly goals count days instead of totals: a day counts once its daily minimum is reached — overshooting doesn't count twice
  • Units - Track counts, durations, or define your own custom unit

Logging Progress

Log progress the way that suits each habit:

  • Check off scheduled habits directly in the Today view
  • Avoid habits count clean days automatically — you only log violations
  • Count habits support a stepper, quick amounts, or direct number input
  • Attach notes to individual entries
  • Log entries for past days if you forgot to track

Project Integration

Link a habit to your work projects and progress fills in automatically:

  • Tracked time on the project counts toward duration habits
  • Completed work sessions count as habit entries
  • Automatic progress is read-only and shows which project it came from

Streaks & Reviews

See at a glance how consistently you stick with your habits:

  • Streaks - Current and best streak for every habit. Streaks run over periods: a period that misses its goal breaks the streak — reach goals only once the period is over, avoid goals as soon as the limit is exceeded
  • Success rate - Your success rate across the last 30 days
  • Consistency heatmap - The overview shows your consistency at a glance
  • Review - A per-habit history with periods, missed days, and progress

Library & Organization

Keep the overview even with many habits:

  • Search and filter your habits by tags and status
  • Sort manually or by title, streak, or recent activity
  • The weekly list in the sidebar shows your habits across the week
  • Archive habits you pause — their history is preserved

Tips & Best Practices

  • Start with one or two habits instead of ten at once
  • Set realistic targets — you can always raise them later
  • Use maximum goals to limit things, not just to build new routines
  • Link habits to projects so tracked work counts automatically
  • Check the review regularly and adjust the rhythm when a habit keeps failing

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