Changing my schedule made old weeks show the wrong missed days

What you are seeing

A typical case: you went to the gym on Monday and Wednesday for two months, then moved to Tuesday and Thursday. After the edit, the old weeks look odd:

• the Mondays and Wednesdays you missed are no longer faded, so those gaps have vanished
• every past Tuesday and Thursday you did not train now shows a faded entry, as if you had skipped a plan you never had
• the weeks look worse, or better, than they really were

Nothing was lost. Every log is still on its day, at its time. Only the faded entries, which show what was planned, changed.

Why it happens

EasyRoutine does not store a separate "missed" record for each past day. A faded entry on a past day simply means: the current schedule says this was planned, and there is no log for it. That keeps things simple and means a missed day turns into a normal entry as soon as you log it late.

The catch is that the calendar has only one schedule to draw from, the current one. Edit a time's days or clock time, and that edited time is drawn over every past week since the activity was created. The one limit is the creation day: an activity never shows planned entries from before it existed.

Change a plan without rewriting the past (Premium)

A scheduled time can have an active period, with a From date and an Until date, both included. Use it to close the old plan and open the new one:

1. Open the Plan tab and tap the activity.
2. On the old time, set Until to yesterday. Leave its days and clock time as they were.
3. Tap Add another time and set the new days and clock time.
4. On the new time, set From to today, and add a reminder if you want one.
5. Save.

Now past weeks are drawn from the old plan, up to yesterday, and everything from today on follows the new one. Logging and the calendar are free; creating and editing schedules is Premium, see scheduling.

Already edited? Put the old weeks back

If you already changed the time in place, you can still repair the history. Set the edited time back to the old days, give it Until yesterday, then add the new days as a second time From today, as above. The faded entries for past weeks return to what you actually planned. Your logs were never affected, so there is nothing else to restore.

When editing in place is fine

You do not always need the two-time approach:

• The old days were a mistake and you never followed them. Then redrawing the past is correct; see activity on the wrong weekdays.
• The activity is new. A week of history does not need protecting.
• You only care about the future. If you never look back at missed days, a simple edit is quicker.

Keep in mind that each activity holds up to four weekly times, and an ended time still uses one of them. Once the old weeks no longer interest you, remove the ended time to free the slot.

Common questions

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