Add per year time period for a habit
I think it would be super beneficial to have a habit tracker for a yearly time period.
As Kyle responded to this request on another suggestion: Yearly isn’t often enough to be a true habit, but you can track anything yearly with an Average tracker.
I don’t think this is right, especially for a bad habit. While I agree you can’t form a good habit with a yearly time frame, you can help set limits on a bad habit. In an effort to break or reduce them, or even keep them in check. Like if you only want to go to 6 concerts per year.
If I use the average tracker, and setup a “6 or less” per year, the progress bar doesn’t decrease with each additional count (is that a bug?), and the only info is X avg / year, which doesn’t give me any idea how many I have left for this year.
If I use the habit tracker, and select this as a bad habit. This works perfectly. The progress bar will correctly decrease as you add counts and the description will “X / 6 this year”. But currently this only goes up to monthly.
If this feature gets added i will gladly upgrade to premium.
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Blake commented
# "CONS": I can see the reasons why this was not originally implemented.
1) Long term things are not so much a "habit" in the common sense of the word.
2) Most habits don't need long term time frames. (But some do.)# PROS: However I still think the reasons to include this feature are stronger.
1) Importantly, there is probably no harm in having the feature. It's just another timing option on a drop down field.
2) There is a benefit for those that want it.If I want to use strides to track a "goal" of changing the filters on my air conditioner twice a year, then why not? Or maybe attending some infrequent social event. I can certainly imagine quite a few genuine habits that I would like to do once every 2 months, meaning 6 times per year.
Overall, I can see no reason why this should not exist. I did notice this desirable feature was missing when I first checked out the app.