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Journal View: Hide an Area and its habits from the “All Habits” View

Feature Request

Problem

I use Areas to organize different types of activities in Habitify. Some Areas contain true daily habits that I actively track while other Areas are used more like collections or libraries.

For example, I have an Area called My Library that contains books I want to read. These are not daily habits but optional tasks and are not intended to appear alongside my active habit tracking.

Currently, every habit from every Area appears in the All Habits view. This creates unnecessary clutter and makes it harder to focus on the habits I actually want to complete each day.

Requested Feature

Allow users to mark an Area as Hidden from All Habits.

When enabled:

  • Habits within that Area would not appear in the All Habits view.

  • The Area would remain fully accessible from the Areas section.

  • Users could still view, edit and complete habits within the hidden Area.

  • Statistics and tracking would continue to work normally.

Example Use Cases

  • Reading libraries

  • Bucket lists

  • Someday/Maybe goals

  • Reference collections

  • Archived habits

  • Optional activities that should not appear in daily tracking

Benefits

  • Reduces clutter in the All Habits view.

  • Makes daily habit tracking more focused.

  • Allows Areas to serve multiple organizational purposes beyond active habits.

  • Provides greater flexibility without affecting existing workflows.

A simple toggle such as “Hide habits from this Area in All Habits” would solve this issue while maintaining backward compatibility for existing users.

Posted by Sharron Denice ·
3 comments

Comments3

  • Minh Thư

    Team•

    Jun 18

    Hello Sharron!

    Thank you for your feedback. I will note this for the team to consider.

    Meanwhile, you may want to try the feature to archive habits.

    Let's say, you create a habit to read a book (set the book title as the habit name), then edit to archive it. It will be still in the app but won't appear in your daily list.

    Hope this helps!

    • An Anonymous User

      •

      Jun 18

      Thanks for responding, this action will also hide it from all the other lists too. I want to be able to see the books, and not have them display as an immediate task to do.

      • Minh Thư

        Team•

        Jul 1

        Hi! Thank you for your sharing.

        When we built the feature Area, the concept was about having a feature to categrize the habits. So, you have a lot of habits to do within a day, Area will help you to better manage, for example, what to do to improve your Physical Health, and what Housworks to do. As you described, it is more like having a different list. Still, we see this is a new interesting idea for the app development.