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Habits on chosen days, and pausing just one
A habit can now be planned for specific weekdays, and paused on its own while everything else carries on. Both had to mean the same thing to the streak, the reminders and the badge.
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ProductA routine is only an order
Habit routines and the focus timer shipped without touching the streak engine. Why a routine stores nothing but a list of ids, and why the timer stores a start time instead of counting.
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ProductImporting another app's history, and refusing 03/04
Switching habit apps shouldn't cost a streak. How PaceStreak reads Loop's export and generic CSVs, why only year-first dates are accepted, and why an import never overwrites a day.
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Security & PrivacyOne grid: training and habits look the same on purpose
Training sessions and habits render on the identical week grid, with the identical marker X. The product doesn't visually distinguish 'important' streaks from 'personal' ones, because that distinction is exactly what would make a habit legible to anyone glancing at the screen.
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DesignA trend chart for every habit, using the colours it already had
A small bar row and a keep-rate percentage on every habit's detail page - kept in lime, missed in flame, because the week strip and calendar markers already meant that, and a new chart is the wrong place to invent a third colour convention.
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DesignGrouping the week board by category, but only when it helps
Habits already had a category and a colour. The one thing Today's week board didn't do with that was use it to group the rows - and it still doesn't, for the common case of one category, on purpose.
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ProductA PUT that must not erase your note
Notes on habit days exposed a classic API trap: an idempotent PUT that sets a day's amount would also wipe its note. Pydantic's model_fields_set tells 'not sent' apart from 'sent empty'.
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PostmortemsThe habit that said zero weeks after ten ticked days
A daily habit started on a Thursday showed a 0-week streak after ten straight days. The first week had been judged against seven days when only four existed.
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DesignStrength: a kinder number beside the streak
Every habit has a weekly streak and a strength score. The first version of strength was a rolling daily average that punished the start of every week. It's now a slow average over weeks.
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ProductSixty-eight habits to start from, and an empty list
PaceStreak ships a catalogue of 68 ready-made habits across health, learning, mind, people, focus, money, home and creative. The habit list itself still starts empty, on purpose.
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Security & PrivacyHabits that nobody else ever sees
PaceStreak added habits, including ones people are trying to break. That made one rule non-negotiable: a habit's name, amounts and slips never reach anyone else, not even as a badge name.
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DesignOne sheet for every habit day
Logging a habit works the same from the Today row, the week strip and the calendar: a big minus and plus, a few one-tap amounts, and a note.
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Security & PrivacyA slip is logged, not punished
Designing habits you are trying to break: zero is a clean day, slips are counted honestly, and nothing is ever shown to anyone else.
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