Habits on chosen days, and pausing just one

Two requests kept coming up about habits. “I only go to the language class on Tuesdays and Thursdays.” And “I’m injured, so stop asking me about running, but keep everything else going.”

Chosen weekdays

A habit can now be planned for chosen days of the week. Under the hood it’s a seven-bit mask, Monday as bit 0, and null means every day, so every existing habit kept meaning what it meant.

What the schedule changes:

• Today only lists the habit on its planned days. On the others it’s still there on the habit page, and doing it anyway still counts.
• Reminders only fire on planned days.
• The first week. A habit started mid-week can only ask for the days left in that week. With a schedule it counts only the planned days left, so a Tuesday-and-Thursday habit started on a Friday doesn’t fail its first week by design.

What it doesn’t change: streaks still count weeks, and the weekly target is still yours. The schedule says when you plan to; the target says how often counts.

Pausing one habit

There was already a pause for everything: travel, illness, a planned break. Now a single habit can be paused on its own, from its page, with an optional end date. Its paused days are treated exactly like the whole-life pause treats every habit’s: they aren’t misses, a paused week doesn’t count against the habit’s streak or its strength, and its reminders stop. Everything else carries on exactly as before.

When the pause ends, the habit comes back on its own, with nothing to re-enable.

One engine

Both live in the same place as repairs and the whole-life pause: the habit engine that every screen, the reminder worker and the home-screen badge read from. That’s the point. A paused habit that the badge still counted, or a scheduled one that sent a reminder on its day off, would be worse than not having the feature.