New: habit tracker with a monthly overview

Short answer: The habit tracker’s 30-day and monthly overview shows whether a habit is actually holding over time, instead of just whether it worked out today.

A streak is good at one thing: showing whether today went well. It’s bad at something else that matters just as much — showing whether a habit is actually holding over time. That’s the gap the habit tracker’s new 30-day and monthly overview is built to close.

1. Why a week isn’t enough

Look only at the last seven days, and a single bad day weighs unfairly heavily. A sick day, a week of travel, or just one missed evening can make an otherwise stable habit look like it’s falling apart — even though, over a month, it’s actually holding up fine.

The reverse is also true: a good week can give a false sense that everything’s on track, even when the habit really only holds up during unusually calm stretches. Both situations need a longer time window to tell apart.

2. How the overview works

Pick up to five routines you want to keep an eye on in the dashboard widget, and the habit tracker shows a 30-day or monthly overview of how consistently each one is being completed — on both web and iOS. Each routine has its own streak, so you can follow several at once without them interfering with each other.

The short streak moment is still there, every time a routine is checked off — a small celebration that gives the immediate satisfaction. The monthly overview sits on top of that, as the long memory neither of you has to keep track of yourselves. See how to use the habit tracker in the help center.

3. What you can actually use it for

The most useful thing about a monthly overview isn’t the number itself — it’s the patterns it makes visible. Does a routine hold up better on weekdays than weekends? Did it dip after you changed the school schedule or picked up a new after-school activity? Questions like that can’t be answered from a single week, but become clear the moment you can see a month at a time.

That’s the knowledge that actually lets you adjust a routine before it falls apart completely — instead of only discovering it once the streak has already been broken for weeks.

4. A broken streak isn’t a reset

Miss a day, and the current streak resets — but the habit tracker still shows the whole history, not just the latest run. That means one missed day doesn’t erase the previous three weeks from the picture. You can still see the habit is holding overall, even when today’s streak number is back at zero.

It’s a small but important detail: it stops a single slip from feeling like starting completely over, for the child and for you as a parent.

The long picture

A streak tells you what happened today. The monthly overview tells you whether it’s actually becoming a habit. You need both — but it’s the long picture that shows what’s actually worth adjusting.

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