Status: in development. The Habit Tracker is not switched on in the app yet: the Habits entry in the sidebar shows “Soon”, and nothing below works today. Until it ships, repeating tasks cover the daily check-in: set a task to repeat and tick it off each time it comes round, see Repeating tasks. Free keeps 24 hours of activity history, Pro keeps all of it.
What follows is the plan, not a description of a working feature.
The habit tracker is meant to be deliberately small. A habit is a thing you either did today or did not, and ToDowl does not ask you to quantify it, rate it or journal about it.
Create a habit
A habit will have:
- a name
- an icon, chosen from the icon picker
- a colour, which is how you will recognise it in the grid
- a time of day: morning, afternoon, evening, night or anytime
Time of day is a grouping, not an alarm. It sorts habits into the part of the day where you expect to do them so the morning block is a short readable list rather than everything you have ever committed to.
Tick them off
The dashboard shows today’s habits grouped by time of day. Tap one to mark it done, tap again to undo. That is the whole daily interaction.
The calendar view
The calendar view lays out one row per habit and one column per day, so a month of behaviour is a single picture. Filled cells are days you did it. Reading a row across is usually more honest than any number: gaps cluster, and the clusters tell you what actually got in the way.
Statistics
The statistics view gives you, per habit:
- Streak, the number of consecutive days up to today
- Best, the longest streak you have managed
- Completion, the share of days you ticked it since you created it
- Count, the total number of days completed
Streaks are motivating for about three weeks and then they start to punish you for one bad day, so treat completion rate as the number that matters over a longer run.
Editing and removing
Open a habit to rename it, change its icon, colour or time of day. A habit you stop doing can be made inactive, which takes it out of the daily list while keeping the history you already built.
How many is too many
Three to five active habits is a workable number for most people. Ten is a to-do list wearing a costume, and it fails in the same way a ten item daily to-do list fails.