# Complete activity for a past day

> Complete activity, in beta, logs time you spent without the timer, for today or any of the last 7 days. Open the card's menu, choose Complete activity, and enter the total time and when you finished. It pays the item's coins and keeps your habit streak. Only timed minutes earn time XP.

- Page: https://dabadoro.com/docs/complete-past-days/
- Applies to: Dabadoro 1.2, New in 1.2, Beta
- Last updated: 2026-10-22

*Figure: Sunday, a past day on the schedule: the habit Read 20 pages was not done, and its Habit actions menu is open with one item, Complete activity. Example data.*

- Go back with the arrows, up to 7 days.
- The task or habit you did without the timer.
- Logs the time and pays the coins. In beta.

*Example data: Sunday, two days ago, with Read 20 pages left undone.*

## Open Complete activity

It is an item in the menu of each task or habit card on the schedule.

1. **Go to the day**

   Use the day arrows above the schedule, or pick the day on the [week strip](https://dabadoro.com/docs/schedule-views-and-layouts/).

2. **Open the card's menu**

   Point at the card and press its menu button, or Tab to it.

3. **Choose Complete activity**

   The completion window opens with a Beta pill.

> **Shortcut:** For the item picked in the timer today, press `Ctrl+Enter`. The shortcut works for today only.

## Log the time

Enter the whole time you spent, and when you stopped.

*Figure: The Complete task window, marked Beta: Total time 0 h 50 m, Ended at 10:41 AM, the line Log total time spent on Flashcards: cell signalling, and the Complete with this time button. Example data.*

- **Total time and Ended at**: The whole time, timer time included, and when you stopped.
- **The details**: What the completion records. Click to open.
- **Complete with this time**: Completes the item and saves the time.

- The total includes the time the timer already tracked. It must be at least one minute more, and at most 6 hours.
- On a past day, **Ended at** starts at the end of the item's slot. Today it starts at the current time.
- In the window, `Ctrl+Enter` does the same as **Complete with this time**. On a past day the title names the day, such as **Complete task for Tuesday 13 October**.
- The extra time is placed backwards from the end time, so your analytics show it in the right hours.

## See what a late completion pays

A late completion pays like any other, except for time XP.

*Figure: Before. Read 20 pages: Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat and Mon done; Sun scheduled and missed; Tue today, not done yet. Current streak 1.*

*Figure: After completing Sunday. Read 20 pages: Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat and Mon done; Sun done later with Complete activity; Tue today, not done yet. Current streak 6.*

*Example data: a daily habit, today Tuesday.*

*What a completion with Complete activity pays*

| You get | With Complete activity |
| --- | --- |
| Coins | The item's reward, 10 by default |
| Habit streak | Kept. A late day repairs the run. |
| Completion XP | 5 XP, as for any completion |
| Time XP | None for the time you type. Timer minutes still count. |

How coins and levels add up is in [rewards, coins and XP](https://dabadoro.com/docs/rewards-coins-xp/).

## Know what it cannot do

The past stays the past, apart from this one action.

- Future days stay closed. Nothing counts as done before it happens.
- Days more than 7 days back stay closed.
- You cannot add new items to a past day, or run the timer on one.
- Unfinished tasks move to today when a day ends, so past days mostly show habits.
- A finished item, or a habit more than 7 days back, shows only its delete button.

`Ctrl+Z` right after reopens the item, removes the logged time, restores the streak and takes the coins back off your balance.

## See also

- [Habit tracker](https://dabadoro.com/habit-tracker/): What habits are for.
- [Rewards, coins and XP](https://dabadoro.com/docs/rewards-coins-xp/): What each completion pays.