One page counts. Ten is still the goal.
Coming back and finishing are both worth seeing. A useful habit tracker should tell you which one happened.
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Imagine a reading habit with a ten-page daily goal. After missed goals, its card is frozen. You read one page and record it. What should change?
The effort changes by one page.
Your record becomes 1/10 pages. You have made a start, and you can see exactly how much you did. The app should not replace that number with ten or fill in missed days on your behalf.
In BackOn, a small comeback for a pages or minutes goal adds one actual unit. It can thaw the habit and reset the freeze cycle while leaving the regular goal in progress. For other measures, a small return is recorded separately where appropriate.
The full goal stays distinct.
For the reading example, ten pages completes the day’s target. One page does not award a completed-goal total or an uninterrupted streak. If the small action really does meet the entire target, normal completion applies.
| Today’s record | What it means |
|---|---|
| 0/10 pages | No pages recorded today |
| 1/10 pages | One real page; goal still in progress |
| 10/10 pages | The day’s full goal is complete |
Earlier effort remains visible.
A thaw does not manufacture a new history. The earlier squares remain, and the gap remains too. You can see a return alongside the days you completed, rather than choosing between an all-perfect record and an empty one.
If you entered something incorrectly, correct the real record. The point of the grid is to reflect what happened. A partial day, a completed day and a missed eligible period carry different information.
Tomorrow does not inherit a debt.
Reading one page today does not make tomorrow’s target nineteen. Tomorrow keeps its normal target. If ten pages has become an awkward fit, review the goal or its rhythm for a future period.
On the landing page, the interactive example uses sample history. Tap the plus to log one example page, watch the ice thaw, and tap the check to undo. Try it yourself and notice that the ten-page goal stays incomplete.