Repeat habits with a target (e.g. 2 times p/w) daily until completed
Currently habit with a target (e.g. 2 times p/w) are scheduled on the first (2) days of the week. Based on user feedback we’ve decided to change this behavior.
New behavior:
Habits with targets will be repeated daily until you’ve met your target. So your 2 times p/w habit will be repeated daily until you’ve completed it twice that week.
You will still have the possibility to plan these repetitions on specific days.
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Purple Kangaroo
Apr 16
Hey Griply team! Great new feature! Maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t quite work as expected, though. Let’s take a simple example: I’ve got a “Floss” habit with a weekly goal of 4 times. It’s set to automatically repeat until completed, but after the first completion, the habit no longer shows up on today’s tasks. It simply disappears, requiring a manual iteration to be added. Am I misunderstanding how the new flow works or is there maybe a bug? (I tested it across the Mac/Windows and web apps, same result).
Ruud from Griply
Apr 16
Hi Kristof, thank you for reaching out.
You do understand correctly how it works. When you see “repeat until completed” under “this week” (see screenshot), the habit should repeat daily until your weekly target is met (4 times in your case).
When you plan your habit on specific days in a specific week, the “repeat until completed” stops for that week and we only look at your personal overrides. The next week, is repeats again unless you start to plan specific days for that week as well.
“Repeat until completed” also stops when you drag the habit ‘floss’ around on the calendar. That will create a planned day with the specific time.
If you think you’ve ran into a bug, feel free to send me a DM on Discord or send an email to support@griply.app so we can dive into this further.
Happy to help!
Best, Ruud from Griply
Purple Kangaroo
Apr 16
Hey Ruud! Appreciate the blazing fast reply. So if I understand the feature correctly, the repetition aspect is meant for the habit itself, but not so much for the calendar view. The way I initially interpreted it was that it will show up in today's view as an optional to do, as long as I haven't reached the weekly goal. This would be a super useful smart feature as right now, I would either have to define the specific dates for each iteration or lose visibility of this habit entirely in my go to views (today/upcoming).
Is this a functionality you guys could consider adding?
Thanks again for the great app and the new support,
Kristof
Ruud from Griply
Apr 20
Hi Kristof, what you see in the Upcoming column in the habit dialog, should also be represented on your calendar.
So when it says “repeat until completed” you should see that habit under Today on your calendar as well.
When you manually plan your habit on specific days, you should see the habit in your calendar on those days.
Important: For habits to appear on your calendar be sure to have “Show in task list” enabled. You can find this option in the settings column in the habit dialog.
Best, Ruud