Habit improve Time Period
I saw the other posts regarding adding a time period for something different than: 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year and the argument against it is that you can use the average tracker
But that is simply not true. An habit is something you want to repeat regularly with a certain interval, whatever the interval is. After you want the tool to propose again the habit when it's time to do it.
Right now there is no way of specifying habits which should happen, for example, 1 time every n months.
Examples of habits like this?
- deep clean of things which you don't want to do it too often because too time consuming
- get a habit to do maintenance of the object in your house (regular check of dishwasher, etc. bike, car, ) all good habits that we often forget to do.
- doing health checkups
- visit/call people that are not close to us
- millions of other examples...i could spend the whole day finding them
Possible arguments against:
- Why not using calendars? is annoying because usually you just cancel them and they are meant to decide the day, not to be free of doing it when you want. With strides you have to actively ignore it every day and eventually you will do it at the end, which is exactly what you wanna achieve from this app
- We can achieve 1 time every two months by setting a habit for 6 times a year no? wrong, it not the same behavior because the habit won't disappear for the next 2 months but will stay there and you have to manually skip it until it's time to do it again, which is completely dumb
Roberto Cattaneo
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Hi Roberto,
I totally agree! You'll love a new update coming out soon. More on that in a sec...
You can already set a habit to be due every X months by changing the Due Frequency setting from Weekdays to Intervals and choosing any number and time period (e.g. Every 2 weeks or Every 3 months).
The Due setting controls when it will show up as due on the Today view (and remind you to do it at the times you choose) but the Goal can still be anything you want.
For example, you could set a goal to deep clean your fridge every 2 months and set the Goal to 6 times per year. With the Due setting's Frequency set to Intervals, Every 2 Months it will repeat from the Start Date so you won't have to keep skipping each week/month.
Even better, in the update I mentioned you'll be able to choose the Intervals Due setting (e.g. Every 2 months) then change From Start Date to After Completion.
That's HUGE for habits like these because rather than just showing up as due on the exact date that's 2 months after the start date it will start showing up 2 months after the last time you completed it, then keep showing up every day until it's done if you skip/miss it.
Looking forward to this update! Thanks so much for the feedback. I hope the Intervals setting helps in the meantime.
Have a great day!
Kyle