A tracker for habits you want less of

A limit, not a goal

Create the habit with Keep it under as its goal. Then only touch the days something happened: tap the cell, or enter the amount. Every untouched day is a clean one, and the streak grows as clean days and clean weeks finish. There is nothing to log on a good day, which is the point — a tracker for quitting should ask the least of you on the days you succeed.

The allowance is yours to set. "Sweets at most twice a week" leaves two recorded days per week within the limit; the third breaks it. "Never" is an allowance of zero. The bracket under the row fills as the allowance is used up, a budget burning down rather than a goal filling up, and it turns red the moment the period is over the line.

Off-limits on certain days only

"No beer on weekdays" names its days: choose the weekdays (or days of the month) and those days are to stay clear, while the rest are yours. The cells the limit does not cover are recessed, so the row reads at a glance. An entry on a covered day breaks the streak that day; a clean covered day extends it once it has finished.

A daily limit with cheat days

With a measurable habit the limit is a number: "at most 2,000 kcal a day", "under 2 hours of screen time". Hitting the limit exactly is within it. On top of that you can allow days over the limit — "but up to two days a week over it" — and that is one habit, not two: the allowance counts the days the number went over, per week or per month.

The value panel says how much of today's limit is left, or by how much you are over, and the number under the habit name turns red only once the allowance is spent. Within it, the row stays quiet: on an avoidance habit, quiet is the steady state, so nothing lights up to congratulate you every ordinary day.

What the streak means here

Success needs time to elapse, so a clean week extends the streak when it ends, not on the day you start. Failure is immediate: once a period is over its allowance it is decided, mid-week, because slips only accumulate. The flame under the streak goes hollow when the allowance is exactly used up — one more slip ends it — which is the one moment a warning can still change something. The guide has the full rules.

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Related pages

• A habit tracker for habits that are not daily
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• The user guide