A habit is something you do on a schedule, forever. A task is something you do once. That difference is why they are separate records rather than a repeating task.

The practical version: if finishing it removes it from your life, it is a task. If finishing it today means you do it again tomorrow, it is a habit.

Schedules

Every habit has a schedule — daily, weekly, or specific days. Pick the one you will actually hold. A daily habit you manage four days a week reads as a broken streak and a failure; the same behaviour on a four-day schedule reads as a perfect week. The behaviour is identical. Only the promise changed.

Completing one

Tick it on Today, or on the habit's own screen. Completion is recorded per day, so ticking is not a status change — you can untick a day you got wrong, and a habit is never "done" the way a task is.

Streaks and the strength score

The streak is consecutive scheduled days completed. It is a blunt number and it resets.

The strength score is the more useful one. It reflects consistency over time rather than an unbroken run, so one missed Tuesday after two good months does not wipe it out. Watch that, not the streak.

The contribution graph on each habit shows the whole history at a glance. Gaps are information, not judgement — a habit with a gap every third week is telling you the schedule is wrong.

Linking a habit to a goal

A habit can be attached to a goal. This is worth doing for the routines that exist because of an ambition — the training that serves the race, the reading that serves the exam. It makes the goal's page honest: the work is not only the tasks.

Two is the number

The most common way this stops working is starting six habits at once. Start two. Add a third when the first two have been unremarkable for a month.

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