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Progress: Preserve total completion count when changing habit frequency

I would like to suggest an improvement regarding how total completed entries are calculated and displayed when changing a habit's frequency.

My scenario:

  • I have a "Fitness" habit set to 5 times a week.

  • I maintained this consistently for ~5 months and achieved 81 total completed sessions.

  • I now want to adjust my schedule to 4 times a week, keeping the same habit tracking history.

    The Issue: When I changed the frequency from 5x to 4x/week, the total completed count automatically recalculated down from 81 to 65. The app basically discarded my extra completed days from the main stats view.

    I understand the math behind recalculating goal compliance, but losing visible credit for days I actually worked out is very demotivating. Currently, the only way to see my real total (81) is to open the habit details and set the view to "All Years" — once I leave that screen, I only see 65 again. Starting a new habit "Fitness 2" is not a good solution as it breaks long-term continuity.

    Feature Request: Please add an option or a metric that always shows the absolute total number of completed instances (raw completion count) alongside the goal-based stats. Changing the goal frequency should never reduce the historical count of actions actually performed.

    Thank you for considering this!

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  • Peter Vu

    Team•

    Sep 4

    Hi — thanks for the clear write-up. We’ve noted the request to keep an absolute total completion count visible when a habit’s frequency/goal changes, so historical check-ins aren’t “lost” from the main stats view.

    It’s in review with our product notes. If you can share which platform you saw the drop on (iOS / Android / web), that helps us reproduce the recalculation behavior.