Area: Ability to Categorize and Grouping within area
Problem
Areas are great for organizing habits, but once an Area grows large it can become difficult to manage and navigate.
For example, I have an Area called My Library that contains books I want to read before purchasing new books. As my library grows, all of the books appear in a single long list with no way to organize them into meaningful groups.
Requested Feature
Allow users to create Categories within an Area.
Categories would act as organizational sections that group related habits together while remaining inside the same Area.
Example
Area: My Library
Self-Help
Atomic Habits
The Untethered Soul
The Let Them Theory
Non-Fiction
The Body Keeps the Score
Say It Plain
Fiction
The Alchemist
Project Hail Mary
Users could collapse, expand, reorder and manage categories independently.
Benefits
Makes large Areas easier to navigate.
Reduces visual clutter.
Allows users to organize reading lists, learning plans and projects more effectively.
Prevents the need to create multiple Areas solely for organizational purposes.
Creates a more scalable structure for users who maintain large collections of habits or tasks.
Additional Ideas
Drag and drop habits between categories.
Collapse or expand categories.
Show progress by category.
Filter the Area by category.
Allow ChatGPT to automatically create and organize categories.
For example:
“Create an area named My Library and group these books into Self-Help, Fiction and Non-Fiction categories.”
This would make Habitify much more useful for managing learning libraries, reading lists, projects and other large collections of habits.
Comments1
Peter Vu
Sep 5
Hi Sharron — thanks for the detailed write-up. We’ve noted the request for categories (collapsible sections) inside an Area so large collections like a reading library stay organized without splitting into multiple Areas. Closely related: there’s also interest in tags within an Area with filtered progress — upvote there if the tag/filter framing fits your workflow too.