# Track habits and keep your streaks

> A habit repeats on chosen weekdays, all seven by default, or on a cadence of days on and off. It can have more than one schedule, called a group, each with its own time. Rest days you did not schedule never break a streak. Mark a past day done and your streak stays.

- Page: https://dabadoro.com/docs/habits-and-streaks/
- Applies to: Dabadoro 1.2
- Last updated: 2026-10-22

*Figure: The New habit form: Stretching, topic Health, from Tuesday 20 October at 7:00 AM, 10 coins, on all seven weekdays.*

- The hour it lands on each scheduled day.
- Weekdays repeats chosen days. Cadence repeats days on and off.
- The first day of its schedule.
- The coins it pays on each day you do it.

*Example data.*

## Create a habit

Habits live in the Habits list, grouped by topic like [tasks](https://dabadoro.com/docs/tasks-and-topics/).

1. **Open Habits**

   Press `3`, or choose **Habits** at the top of the panel.

2. **Press Create habit**

   The + at the top of the list opens the **New habit** form.

   (The head of the Habits list: Habits (5), Create habit and Search habits.)

3. **Choose Recurrence, then press Create habit**

   It appears on every day it is scheduled.

Reward runs from 1 to 1,000 coins, and a new habit starts at 11:00 PM. In Cadence, On days run from 1 to 365 and Off days from 0 to 365.

**Suggested habits** at the foot of the list adds Push-ups, Running, Reading or Stretching.

Every habit starts with one schedule, its Default group. [Habit groups](https://dabadoro.com/docs/habit-groups/) shows how to add more, change them and delete them.

## Choose how it repeats

Weekdays follows the calendar; Cadence counts days on and off from the start date.

*Figure: The Recurrence field set to Cadence: On days 1, Off days 1.*

*Figure: The Recurrence field set to Weekdays: tue, thu, sat chosen.*

*Recurrence examples*

| You want | Set |
| --- | --- |
| Every day | Weekdays: all seven days, the default |
| Every other day | Cadence: On days 1, Off days 1 |
| Five days on, two off | Cadence: On days 5, Off days 2 |
| Monday, Wednesday, Friday | Weekdays: Mon, Wed, Fri |

In Weekdays, the last day left on says **Keep at least one day**.

> **Watch out:** Change the days later, and earlier days follow them too. [What each change does](https://dabadoro.com/docs/habit-groups/#what-happens) lists every case.

## Keep your streak

Click the scheduled days. The streak follows the app's own rule.

**Gym**: Weekdays: Mon, Wed, Fri: Streak **2**

The streak stops at the latest scheduled day left undone. Click it to mark it done.

- Each scheduled day you finish adds 1.
- A scheduled day left undone ends the run. Your next completion starts it again at 1.
- All the groups of one habit share one streak, and it grows once a day.

The flame beside each habit in the list shows its current streak. The **Habit streak** card in [Analytics](https://dabadoro.com/docs/analytics/) counts across all your habits: the scheduled days in a row with at least one completion.

Rest days never count against a streak; [the method](https://dabadoro.com/docs/method/#streaks) explains why.

## Restart a habit after a break

A broken streak restarts at your next completion, unless Complete activity repairs it first.

*Figure: Missed. Read 20 pages: Mon, Tue, Fri and Sat done; Wed and Thu scheduled and missed; Sun today, not done yet. Current streak 2.*

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

*Example data: the same week before and after Complete activity.*

[Complete activity](https://dabadoro.com/docs/complete-past-days/) logs a habit you did but did not tick, for any of the last 7 days.

## See also

- [Habit tracker](https://dabadoro.com/habit-tracker/): What habits are for.
- [Analytics](https://dabadoro.com/docs/analytics/): Streaks, the heatmap and your trends.