Habit Reminders: Performance-Based Habit Adjustment Alerts

Habit targets are often set conservatively and adjusted over time based on real performance. Biologically, habit repetition and motivation are closely linked to the dopamine system, which responds to prediction error (the gap between expected and actual outcomes).

When a habit is consistently overperformed or underperformed without feedback, reinforcement signals weaken, reducing long-term motivation and habit stability.

Request:

Allow users to enable performance-based alerts for habits, such as:

• “Notify me if I fall behind this habit by 10% or 20%”

• Alerts can be scheduled periodically (weekly, biweekly, or monthly)

When triggered, the alert can offer clear, actionable options, for example:

• Reduce the habit target to X

• Increase the habit target to Y

• Extend the current trial period by one more week

This helps users recalibrate habits in a biologically and behaviorally sustainable way, using simple rules without changing existing default behavior.

Summary:

1. Performance-Based Habit Alerts

Allow users to set alerts that trigger when their habit performance deviates from the target by a chosen percentage (e.g. 10% or 20%), over a defined period (weekly, biweekly, or monthly).

2. Actionable Adjustment Options in Alerts

When an alert is triggered, present clear one-tap options such as:

• reduce the habit target to a suggested level

• increase the habit target to a suggested level

• extend the current trial period by one more week