Want a completion percentage or streak per habit?

What a per-habit number tells you, and what it hides

A completion rate is simple: days you did the habit, divided by days you planned to. Planned 20 workouts, did 15: 75%. A per-habit streak is the number of planned days in a row you did it.

Both are useful for one question: is this one habit holding up? They are less useful for others:

• A percentage hides the pattern. 75% could be one bad week or a missed Monday every week. Those need different fixes.
• The planned number matters as much as the done number. Plan fewer days and the rate goes up without anything changing. Compare rates only for the same plan.
• A streak punishes the plan, not the habit. For a habit you do four days a week, a strict daily streak breaks every week by design.

So a number is a good summary once a month, next to a look at which days are missing.

What EasyRoutine shows instead

The Profile tab has a Day streak (days in a row with at least one log of any activity) and Completed, the total of all your logs. Both cover the whole account. There are no per-habit percentages, charts or streaks. The calendar is where one habit's history lives: every log is a dot or tile on its day, in the activity's color. How the account streak counts and when it resets is explained in missed a day and lost your streak?.

Work out one habit's rate in the month view

1. Open the Calendar tab, pick the routine and switch to Month.
2. Tap the habit's tile above the calendar. Its dots grow bigger and come first on each day, so they are easy to follow.
3. Count the filled dots in that color: the days you did it.
4. Count the planned days. If the activity has a schedule (Premium), each planned day you did not log shows a hollow ring in its color, so planned days = dots + rings. Without a schedule, use your own target, such as 4 days a week, about 17 in a month.
5. Divide. 14 dots and 4 rings: 14 out of 18, about 78%.

For a per-habit streak, count the longest run of planned days in a row that all have a dot. Tap the tile again to clear the highlight.

A day shows up to four dots. In a routine with more than four activities, highlighting the habit puts its dot first, so it is not hidden on a busy day.

Keep the number honest

• Only count what was logged. If you did something but forgot to log it, add it on the right day first (backdating a forgotten log). Do not add days you skipped to lift the rate.
• Use the same period every time. A calendar month is easy to repeat. Write the result in a note on the first log of the next month, such as "Run, October: 14/18", so you can compare later.
• Look at the gaps after the number. If the rate drops, check which weekdays are empty. Which habit is slipping walks through reading a month habit by habit.
• Change the plan before blaming yourself. A rate that stays at 50% for months often means the plan is too big for the week you have.

When a dedicated stats app suits you better

If charts, per-habit percentages and long-term graphs are what keeps you going, an app or a spreadsheet built for statistics will serve you better; see tracking habits in a spreadsheet vs an app. EasyRoutine is built for quick logging and for answering "when did I last do this?", with the month view as the overview.

Common questions

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