Habits are the engine of consistency. They turn your big goals into small, repeatable actions or simply help you bring more structure into your daily life. In Griply, you can create habits and recurring tasks, link them to goals or life areas, break them down into subtasks, and track your progress over time.

This guide goes beyond Creating Your First Habits and explains every setting, workflow, and smart tip to get the most out of habits in Griply.

Why Habits Matter in Griply

Big goals aren’t achieved overnight, they’re built through small actions, repeated consistently. That’s why habits are at the core of Griply’s workflow:

• Turn goals into action → Link habits to goals so your daily efforts directly drive results.

• Stay balanced → Spread habits across multiple life areas to invest where it matters most.

• Stay accountable → Visualize your consistency and progress in the Progress Tracking section.

Example: If your goal is to Run a half marathon, you might create supporting habits like Run 3x per week and Stretch daily.

Creating a New Habit or Recurring Task

1. Go to the Habits section in the sidebar.

2. Click Add habit in the top-right corner.

3. Fill in the habit creation form:

   • Name → Use clear, action-based names (“Meditate for 10 minutes,” “Plan weekly meals”).

   • Icon → Choose an icon for quick visual recognition.

   • Schedule → Decide how often the habit should occur (details below).

     • Reminders → Add as many as you want, each either a set amount of time before the habit's start time or at a fixed clock time. A relative reminder anchors to the habit's start time on each scheduled day. See Reminders.

   • Priority → Mark habits as high, medium, or low priority.

   • Link to → Connect the habit to a goal or life area, or keep it standalone.

   • Tags → Use tags to group habits for easy filtering.

   • Visibility toggles → Control whether to:

     • Show the habit in the Habits list

     • Include it in your daily task lists

4. Click Save.

Tip: The Description field isn’t part of the initial setup. After creating the habit, open its detail view to add notes, context, or a clear definition of what “done” means.

Setting Up Schedules and Targets

Griply offers flexible ways to schedule habits depending on how often you want to complete them.

1. Repeat on Specific Days

Best for habits tied to fixed days of the week.

Examples:

• Go to the gym on Mon, Wed, Fri

• Publish LinkedIn posts every Tuesday

• Call your parents every Sunday

How to set it up:

1. Under Schedule, select Repeat on specific days.

2. Choose the exact weekdays.

3. Optionally, set the number of completions per day.

   • Example: “Drink 10 glasses of water” → select all weekdays → set 10 completions per day.

For yearly habits, pick the specific date directly in the schedule editor rather than typing it as text.

2. Repeat Every Few Days

For habits that don't line up with particular weekdays, set a fixed interval instead. Choose Every X days under Schedule and pick the interval.

A habit set to every 3 days starting on the 1st lands on the 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, and so on, so the weekday shifts as the month goes on. The interval counts from the schedule rather than from when you complete the habit, so finishing one early or late leaves every following occurrence exactly where it was.

3. Set Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly Targets

Perfect for habits where total frequency matters but specific days don’t.

Examples:

• Weekly → “Run 3 times per week”

• Monthly → “Write 5 blog posts per month”

• Yearly → “Hike 12 new trails this year”

How to set it up:

1. Under Schedule, select Set weekly, monthly, or yearly target.

2. Choose your timeframe (week, month, or year).

3. Optionally, switch from times to duration if the habit is time-based.

   • Example: “Read for 5 hours per week.”

Changing a Schedule Later

When you edit an existing habit's schedule, Griply asks whether the change applies from today or from the beginning of the schedule.

Pick from today when you're changing how the habit works going forward, which is usually what you want. Pick from the beginning when you're correcting a schedule you set up wrong. Either way, the entries you've already logged stay exactly as they are.

Planning Habits on the Calendar

How a habit appears on the calendar depends on the schedule type you picked.

• Habits set to repeat on specific days → Griply generates one occurrence on each scheduled day. A habit set to "Every Mon, Wed, Fri" shows up on those three days every week.

• Habits with a weekly, monthly, or yearly target → the habit shows on Today every day until the period's target is met. It does not pre-fill calendar days in advance, because Griply doesn't know which specific days you plan to do it. Earlier completions still appear on the calendar with a checkmark on the day they happened.

If you want a target habit on specific calendar days, you have three options.

1. Drag the Habit Onto a Calendar Day

To plan a target habit in advance, drag it from the sidebar onto the day you want. Once you drop a habit inside a week, that week's plan is yours to control: the habit stops appearing on Today by default and only shows up on the days you picked. Keep dragging to add more days within the same week.

On Desktop, the Upcoming calendar's side panel has a Habits source built in. Press S, switch the panel to Habits, and drag straight from the list of your habits onto the days you want. That's the quickest way to plan a full week of habits in one pass.

2. Add Occurrences From the Habit Detail View

Open the habit and use the Upcoming tab to add planned occurrences directly. This is faster than dragging when you want to plan several days at once without leaving the habit.

3. Switch the Schedule to Specific Days

If you'd rather have a fixed weekly pattern, change the schedule from a target (e.g. "3 times per week") to specific days (e.g. "Every Mon, Tue, Wed"). The habit will then show up on those days automatically.

Note: Changing the schedule mid-week ends the current schedule and starts the new one, which can dip your completion rate for the week. The start of a new week is the best time to switch.

A Note on Habits With a Fixed Schedule

For habits set to repeat on specific days, dragging an occurrence to a different day inside the same week puts that week under your manual control. The fixed schedule is ignored for the rest of that week, and only the days you've planned will show up. The next week reverts to the schedule automatically.

Breaking Down Habits with Subtasks

Unlike most habit trackers, Griply lets you add subtasks to your habits — a unique feature that helps you break bigger routines into smaller, trackable actions.

Examples:

• Habit: Strength training

  • Subtasks: “10 squats,” “15 push-ups,” “20 kettlebell swings,” “5 min stretching”

• Habit: Weekly grocery prep

  • Subtasks: “Check pantry,” “Make shopping list,” “Prep vegetables,” “Cook rice”

• Habit: Learning Spanish

  • Subtasks: “Review yesterday’s vocab,” “Complete one Duolingo lesson,” “Listen to a 5-min podcast clip”

• Habit: Skin care routine

  • Subtasks: “Cleanser,” “Toner,” “Moisturizer,” “SPF”

• Habit: Project review

  • Subtasks: “Open KPI dashboard,” “Check deadlines,” “Write 3 key takeaways”

Subtasks make habits less overwhelming and give you a clear, repeatable checklist within each habit.

Tracking Your Progress

Once you start completing habits, Griply automatically tracks your consistency:

• Completions → How many times you’ve completed the habit.

• Completion rate → Your success percentage.

• Perfect weeks → Weeks where you hit the habit every time it came up. For an every-day habit with a daily target, that means hitting the target on every day, not reaching the weekly total. A 10,000-steps-a-day habit needs 10,000 on all seven days.

• Skipped or failed → Count of missed or failed targets.

• Trends → A chart of your completions across the period you select: week, month, quarter, or year.

For a broader view across all goals and habits, explore the Progress Tracking article.

The Habit Card on iOS

On iOS, a habit card shows a monthly tracking grid, so you see the whole month of progress at a glance rather than just the current week. Tap any day in the grid to complete or uncomplete the habit for that day.

Examples of Habit Setups

Here are 20+ real-life examples to inspire you:

Tips for Building Better Habits

• Start small → Build confidence before scaling up.

• Stack habits → Pair a new habit with an existing one (“After brushing teeth, meditate for 2 minutes”).

• Use reminders strategically → Keep notifications focused.

• Reflect regularly → Use the Insights Dashboard to review what’s working and what’s not.