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How to Change Goal of Your Habit

You can adjust your goal so it can be more suitable with your improvement progress

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To Change Goal Value

This involves adjusting the numerical target you aim for each time you perform the habit. For example, increasing your daily reading goal from 10 pages to 15 pages, or decreasing your meditation time from 20 minutes to 15 minutes.

How it Works:

  • Timing: When you change the value of a habit's goal, the new target takes effect starting from the date you make the change.

  • Past Data: Your historical progress data recorded before the change remains unaffected. The app will show your progress based on the goal that was active on those specific past dates.

  • Future Data: All tracking from the date of the change onwards will be measured against the new goal value.

To Change Goal Unit

Modifying the unit of measurement for a habit (e.g., changing from 'minutes' to 'hours' or 'pages' to 'chapters') is also possible, but the rules depend on whether the habit uses a custom unit or a standard, pre-defined unit.

For Custom Habits with Customized Units

If you created a habit and defined your own unit label, you have significant freedom. You can change the unit label to almost anything else you prefer (e.g., changing "glasses" of water to "bottles").

However, this change is primarily a label change. Crucially, when you change the unit label for a custom habit, this new label is applied retrospectively. That means, the new unit label will appear next to your logged data for all past entries as well.

Be mindful of this, as changing "glasses" to "liters" might make past numerical entries confusing if the value wasn't adjusted accordingly at the time.

For Habits Created from Pre-built Templates

Habits based on templates have stricter rules for unit changes. You can generally only change the unit to another unit of the same type. For example:

  • Duration: minutes ↔ hours

  • Distance: meters ↔ kilometers or miles ↔ yards

Changing units within the same type (like minutes to hours) allows Habitify to potentially recalculate or display progress consistently, as the relationship between the units is understood (60 minutes = 1 hour).

This limitation exists to ensure your progress tracking remains consistent, accurate, and meaningful across reports.

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