The Habits tab counts completions rather than streaks, because total repetitions in context is the number that predicts a habit forming. Add one habit at a time, hang it on a cue, tick it on the days it happened, and stop tracking it closely once it runs by itself.
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One habit, one cue, ticked on the days it happened.
Add one habit, small
Quick add on this tab opens the habit composer. Make the first version small enough to survive every day; simpler behaviours became automatic sooner, and a two-minute version that survives beats a long one that does not.
Where: Habits tab
Name the cue in the habit
Write the cue into the habit's name or notes: after the kettle, after brushing, when the workday ends. Habits are triggered by context far more than by intention, and the cue is what the tab cannot supply for you.
Where: Habit composer
Tick the day, not the streak
Tap the habit on the days it happened. The tab counts completions over the week against the possible total; a missed day is a data point, and the formation study found it made no measurable difference.
Where: Habits tab › a habit
Read the strip, then ask why
The line under the action row is one research-backed tip chosen for your own numbers. Tap Why to read the fuller finding, the studies behind it with links, and the reason this tip was picked today.
Where: Habits tab › guidance strip
Tune the strip to you
Settings under Why sets how often the tip changes (every visit, once a day, once a week), pins it to one theme, or turns it off for this tab alone.
Where: Habits tab › guidance strip › Why
Logging well
Tick honestly, catch up carefully, and keep the count low.
Tick on the day, or fill the day it belongs to
A tick counts for the day it is on. Fill a day you missed from the day list rather than double-ticking today, so that the completion rate stays a true count of repetitions.
Where: Habits tab › day list
Add the next habit when the last one runs itself
The tab flags more than six habits because each needs its own cue and about two months of repetition. A habit has formed when skipping it feels odd; that is the sign to add the next.
Where: Habits tab
Start against Log
A tick is the log; routines are for habits with steps.
A tick is the whole entry
Habits have no timer; the tick records the day. For a habit with several steps, an evening routine or a warm-up, make a routine on the aspect tab and run it with Play, and tick the habit when the routine is done.
Where: The aspect tab › Routines
Bundle it with something you enjoy
Pair the habit with a reward you only take while doing it, the audiobook only at the gym; temptation bundling raised gym visits in a field trial. The pairing is yours to keep; the tab counts the days.
Where: Habits tab › a habit
Goals and habits
When a habit should be a goal, and how the two tabs share.
Goals for numbers and dates, habits for days
A thing with a target and a window is a goal on the Goals tab; a thing you would do every day is a habit here. A habit can serve a goal: the daily walk is the habit, the monthly distance is the goal, and the aspect tab feeds both.
Where: Goals tab
Restart on a fresh start
A habit gone cold usually lost its cue. Check what changed, re-anchor it, and restart on a Monday or the first of the month, when people are measurably more likely to begin; the completion count carries on from there.
Where: Habits tab › a habit
Reading your numbers
Completion this week, habits gone cold, and the count of active habits.
Completion, not streaks
The tab shows completions over the last week against the possible total, which habits have gone three days without a tick, and how many are active. The strip reacts to completion under seventy per cent, to habits gone cold, and to more than six at once.
When it is a habit
A habit has formed when the behaviour happens without deciding and feels odd to skip. Expect two to three months for a typical daily behaviour, and treat that moment as the sign to stop watching it closely.
Look across tabs in Statistics
Statistics under Functions › Analysis puts your completion rate beside every other aspect: What stands out lists the strongest links and drifts this period, Forecast says where the metric lands a week out at this pace, and Guidance names the aspect whose numbers are weakest.
Where: Functions › Analysis › Statistics
The agent and automations
What the agent can do with this tab, and what runs without you.
Ask the agent about this tab
Open the Agent under Functions › Analysis, or press the a key on the web, and ask in plain words: "Which habit has the lowest completion this month, and did its cue change?". The agent reads this tab only while the Habits switch under May read is on, and the Context panel shows exactly what it was sent.
Where: Agent › Settings
Let it suggest, then decide
Anything the agent wants to add or change lands in Suggestions with an accept or reject on each item. Under Does on its own you can let a kind of change apply straight away; bulk edits always show a preview and keep an undo for a day.
Where: Agent › Settings
Put the routine on Autopilot
Autopilot runs the Morning plan, Evening tidy, Weekly review and Drift nudges while the app is open, each with its own time, instruction and Apply without asking switch; Add a job makes one of your own, such as a habits check every Sunday.
Where: Agent › Settings › In the background
Get the week by email
Email automations in Settings sends a weekly or daily digest with the strongest links, drifts and goal paces across every tab, and can alert you once when something is slipping or when this tab goes quiet for three days.
Where: Settings › Email automations