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title: "Grow habits in your garden"
description: "Every habit is a seed. Water it on the days you keep it and it sprouts, blooms and bears fruit. Streaks, dew drops and leaderboards included."
section: "Habits"
keywords: "habits, habit tracker, streak, garden, plant, seed, leaderboard, dew drop, fruit, routine"
canonical: https://kairo.jaimansoni.com/support/habits
---
# Grow habits in your garden

Every habit is a seed. Water it on the days you keep it and it sprouts, blooms and bears fruit. Streaks, dew drops and leaderboards included.

Source: https://kairo.jaimansoni.com/support/habits
Section: Habits

## Plant a seed

**Garden** is where habits live. On a computer it's in the sidebar, or press `7`. On a phone, tap the sprout at the top of the screen — and the plants due today also sit at the top of **Today**, one tap each.

- **Seeds** are popular habits ready to plant: drink water, read, meditate, work out and more. Seeds everyone plants share a leaderboard.
- **Your own seed** is any habit you like. Choose its plant, how often it happens (every day, certain days, or a number of times a week), a daily target like 8 glasses, and a reminder time.
- A garden holds up to 40 plants. Most people do best with three or four.

## Water it, watch it grow

Tap a plant to water it on a day you kept the habit. Counted habits fill up one tap at a time. Every watering helps the plant grow: a sprout after the first, a young plant after a week, in bloom at 21, and bearing fruit at 30. Growth is never lost.

- **Fruit** ripens as waterings add up, starting at 7. Pick it and it goes in your **Basket**.
- **Golden fruit** ripens on your best streaks: 21, 66, 100, 200 and 365 in a row.
- Forgot to tap yesterday? You can still water **yesterday** today, and your streak is kept.

## Streaks and dew drops

A streak counts the days in a row you kept a habit — or, for a habit that's a number of times a week, the weeks in a row you hit it. Days a habit doesn't ask for don't break anything.

- Every 7 in a row earns a **dew drop** 💧, up to three. A drop covers a missed day by itself, so one bad day doesn't erase a month.
- A plant that goes without water **wilts**, but it never dies. Water it again and it perks right back up.
- Changing a habit's schedule or target re-counts its current streak under the new rules. Growth, fruit and your best streak stay.

> **Good to know:** Plant **Write in the journal** and it waters itself whenever you write a journal page that day.

## Leaderboards

Every seed has a leaderboard of current streaks: **Everyone**, or **Friends** — the people you share lists or tasks with. You only appear once you join from **Community** with a gardener 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 gardener up. **Hide me** takes you off every board at once.

## Reminders

Give a habit a reminder time and Kairo nudges you then, only on days it's due and only if you haven't watered it yet. In the evening, if a streak of three or more is still thirsty, you'll get one last gentle nudge. Reminders use the same notifications as tasks, so turn those on in Settings.

## Compost, and your data

- **Move to compost** takes a plant off the ground and stops its reminders, but keeps its growth and fruit. Replant it any time.
- A composted plant can be **deleted forever**, with its whole history.
- Assistants you connect to Kairo only reach your garden if you tick **Include habits** on their [connection key](https://kairo.jaimansoni.com/support/connect-ai). Then they can see your habits, check one in when you tell them you did it, and plant new ones. They can't delete or compost anything.
- Deleting your account deletes your garden, every watering and your basket.