Build habits

Habits is in the sidebar on a computer, or press 6. On a phone it's the last tab in the bottom bar, with a dot while a habit is still to do today. Today shows a small window onto your garden with the day's progress: tap it to open the garden full screen.

• New habit opens on ideas: drink water, read, meditate, work out and more. Tap one and it arrives filled in. Or type your own and tap Create.
• Then there are only three things to choose: its name, how often (every day, weekdays, a number of times a week, or days you pick) and whether to be reminded in the morning, the evening or at a time you set. A daily goal like 8 glasses, why it matters and its plant and colour wait under More options.
• People doing the same idea share a leaderboard. Ideas, at the top of Habits, lists them all.
• Keep it small enough to do on a busy day. Two minutes of reading still counts, and small habits are the ones that last.
• You can keep up to 40 habits. Most people do best with three or four.

Tap the circle next to a habit on a day you did it. A habit with a target, like 8 glasses, fills up one tap at a time. Tapped by mistake? Tap again to take it back, or use Undo.

• Forgot to mark it yesterday? Habits shows Did you do these yesterday? until the end of today. Tap Mark yesterday done and your streak carries on.
• Days a habit doesn't ask for never count against it.

A streak counts the days in a row you kept a habit. For a habit that's a number of times a week, it counts the weeks in a row you hit it.

• Every 7 in a row earns a streak saver, up to three. If you miss a day, one is used by itself and your streak carries on, so one bad day doesn't erase a month.
• Changing a habit's schedule or target re-counts its current streak under the new rules. Your history and best streak stay.

Strength shows how rooted a habit is, from 0 to 100%. Every day you keep it adds a little, and every miss takes a little away, with recent days counting most. A single miss barely dents it; missing often brings it down. Most habits take around two months of steady keeping to feel automatic.

• Just started below 10%, Taking root from 10%, Growing strong from 40%, Almost automatic from 70%, and Rooted from 85%. A habit's page shows about how many more days it takes to reach the next.
• Each habit has a plant, and it grows with strength: a sprout while the habit is new, in bloom once it's rooted. The garden at the top of Habits shows them all together, and a plant can be tapped to mark its habit done.
• The garden has your weather. Its sky is the real sky where you are, this hour: rain when it's raining, a storm with its lightning, fog, snow, and the sun rising and setting when yours does. Tap the weather on the garden to see it, or to change where it comes from.
• Where you are is the town your internet connection comes from, which needs no setup. If that's wrong, choose This device's location and your browser asks once. Either way it's rounded to about 10 km and Kairo doesn't keep it. The forecast comes from MET Norway. To turn it off, choose Off there or in Settings > Appearance > Garden weather; it's kept on each device.
• With the weather off, or when Kairo can't tell where you are, the garden has weather of its own: clouds gather while habits are still to do. Either way, when everything due today is done a rainbow comes out, through the rain if it's raining.
• Open garden on Today, or Full screen on Habits, fills the screen with it. Tap plants there to mark habits done; close it with the cross, Escape or your back button.

Every idea has a leaderboard of current streaks: Everyone, or Friends (the people you share lists or tasks with). You only appear once you join from Leaderboards, at the bottom of Habits, with a name and an animal. Nobody sees your email, your photo, or any habit you made yourself.

Until you join, Kairo still shows *you* where you'd rank, and how many days it would take to pass the next person up. Hide me takes you off every leaderboard at once.

Give a habit a reminder time and Kairo reminds you then, only on days it's due and only if it isn't done yet. At 8:30pm, if a streak of three or more still isn't marked done, you'll get one last reminder; switch that off under Evening reminder at the bottom of Habits. Reminders use the same notifications as tasks, so turn those on in Settings.

• Archive habit, at the bottom of a habit's page, takes it off your list and stops its reminders. Its history is kept. Archived habits are listed at the bottom of Habits, where you can Restore them.
• Delete habit removes a habit and every day you marked it, for good. It's the bin button at the top of a habit's page, at the bottom under Stop this habit, and in Edit. Kairo asks once before deleting, and offers to archive instead.
• Assistants you connect to Kairo only reach your habits if you tick Include habits on their connection key. Then they can see your habits, mark one done when you tell them you did it, and start new ones. They can't archive or delete anything.
• Deleting your account deletes your habits and every day you marked.