While building a good habit is all about taking action, breaking a bad one is about restraint. It requires a completely different mindset, which is why your bad habits get their own dedicated "Bad Habits" tab on the Web and Desktop apps.
This dashboard shifts the focus from accumulating completions to celebrating the days you successfully stayed away. Here is a complete breakdown of every feature on the "Break" dashboard, what it means, and how you can use it to regain control.
1. Date Range & Habit Controls
Your filtering tools are located in the top right corner of the screen. It allows you to adjust the time frame using standard milestones (7, 14, 28 days, etc.) or custom start and end dates.
These filters allow you to isolate your data. If you are doing a "Sober October" or a 30-day digital detox, you can set the exact date parameters to see a focused report card for that specific challenge.
2. The All-Time Heatmap
Taking up the top section of your dashboard is a sweeping, grid-based visualization of your effort.
This heatmap plots your progress with dates running vertically and columns representing weeks. However, unlike the "Good Habit" tab, this grid only uses a single solid color (red). A cell is colored red if you log any progress for your bad habits that day, regardless of whether you went over your set limitation or not.
This uses reverse psychology: your goal here is to keep the calendar as blank and gray as possible! Red blocks act as an instant visual reality check, helping you identify if your slip-ups cluster around certain times, like stressful weekdays or unstructured weekends.
3. Days Clean
This shows the total number of days where your progress value was exactly zero across all tracked bad habits. Below the main number is your "clean rate," representing the percentage of clean days out of the total selected time range.
It is supposed to protects your morale. It is easy to beat yourself up over one bad day, but looking at a 95% clean rate proves objectively that you are winning the war and successfully changing your behavior.
4. Slip Days
This Slip Days metric keeps you honest and accountable without being overly punishing.
It shows the total number of days you had at least one failed bad habit. It also includes a helpful note stating exactly how many days ago your last slip occurred, alongside a mini column chart mapping your activity over the last 7 days.
This metric can give you the proof to turn mistakes into actionable data. The mini 7-day chart instantly shows you if a recent slip was an isolated incident or if it is turning into a multi-day relapse, allowing you to course-correct immediately.
5. Current & Max Streaks
These two metrics leverage the psychological power of momentum.
The Current Streak (marked with a flame icon) shows your ongoing, unbroken run of clean days leading up to today.
The Max Streak displays your all-time historical record for consecutive clean days.
When an urge hits, looking at a solid current streak makes you think twice about breaking it. Meanwhile, your Max Streak provides a constant, tangible high score to beat as you dust yourself off and start your next clean chain.
6. The Habits Table
At the bottom of the dashboard is a highly detailed, granular breakdown of your progress for each individual bad habit.
A comprehensive table features the following columns:
Name: The specific title of the bad habit you are tracking.
Success Rate: The percentage of successful periods where you successfully restrained yourself—either by doing nothing (for a "quit" habit) or by staying under your allowed cap (for a "limit" habit).
Slips: The ratio of slipped periods (when you went beyond your limitation) compared to the total number of periods within your selected time range.
Over Limits: The hard number of periods you actively failed—meaning you performed a habit you were trying to completely "quit," or you exceeded the maximum cap on a "limit" habit.
Average: Your average logged value per period. Underneath this average, it also helpfully displays your "Peak" (the absolute highest amount you logged during a single period).
Target: The specific boundary or goal you set for yourself (e.g., "< 30 mg/day" or "Quit").
Visual Chart: The final column provides a visual summary of your effort.
For "limit" habits, you will see a column chart plotting your actual logs against a red dashed limitation line.
For "quit" habits, it displays a streamlined progress chain where any failed days are starkly highlighted in red.
(Note: A "period" is determined by how you set your habit's specific goal. If your goal is daily, the period is one day; if your goal is weekly, the period is one week, etc.)
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