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No, you cannot store steps for a habit, nor a time of day. It’s meant to be looser than that. In Habits — a habit is a single thing you want to repeat (e.g. clean around the house) regularly, but not at an exact time. Habits reminds you to do it as often as you told it to, and keeps track of how well you have done.

Thanks for the comment — I am definitely working on some flexibility in picking repeat times. I am trying to balance that with how easy it is to use — I didn’t want complex screens.

Right now I am working on putting more information on the home screen to make it easier to see what you are supposed to do (and how long you have to do it).

I’m happy to report that, after a week of using Habits, I’ve been able to stick to the habits I want to form – according to Habit’s log – 66.7% of the time. Which is saying a lot as I have been close to zero using conventional to-do apps. Yes, it does make a diff to keep the recurring habit-forming to-dos in a separate app! I find that with a dedicated Habits, I now compete with – and try to win against – my slothful self.

So, please don’t give in to feature requests that would turn Habits into an also-ran to-do list. There’s a glut of to-do apps out there! Habit’s simplicity IS its strength!

That said, I agree with the foregoing comments to adopt customized repeats (similar to Apple iCal when you create a repeating event). However, assigning a SPECIFIC time to do a habit has NEVER worked for me; it only guaranteed failure. When I miss the EXACT time, I beat myself up over it. Then discouragement sets in and wins the day.

One habit I’m forming is to meditate daily AND twice a day. I would forget about pushing myself to sit exactly at 6.00 am and at 6.00 pm (which will never happen, knowing me). So I just the divide the day into two: AM and PM. So here’s a second suggestion, please make it possible then to have a choice as to when to do a habit – either AM or PM; or AM and PM. That’s it!

Oops, one other minor request: include an edit button to enable reordering of habits. Currently the habits are ordered according to what a user adds first. For instance, on a given day, I would start with a meditation, then journaling, then playing guitar… It just works better to have these ordered in the desired sequence.

I think that’s about all the complexity Habits needs to keep it simple.

Hello,

I bought your App and it seems great for what I need! However I found a slight bug. If you type in a title and press "Done" on the keyboard without selecting an interval, the application crashes for me.

Hi. I just bought this app and think it rocks!!
Feature request (of course..):
– choice to set frequency to every monday, or every tuesday, etc.. seems necessary, simple and easy for a great developer like you .
– separate things that need to be done by their proximity to today, so things that needed to be done yesterday, or two days ago, etc. then today and then group for tomorrow, in two days, etc… That way if I want I can just do the basic habits (today only) or do today plus tomorrows if I have extra time now, then tomorrow I could find some extra time to do what should have been done yesterday (then two days ago) that could be an optional mode by pushing the typical toggle button in the home screen! I just put my rave review of your app in the spanish AppStore, the first one, to get you started here! Don't let us down and update keeping the interface just as simple, but improved!!
– to be able to order habits could be useful too

After latest Update. I am not able to ADD new habit Save button is disabled.
When I press DONE it comes out of app without saving.

After reinstall same issue.

Pankaj