GUIDE
Breaks
Work travel or a busy stretch into the plan before it arrives. Here are the three ways repetitions can be moved, and how to see the effect before committing.
Days without repetitions
A break says “put nothing between these two dates”. You set one from Add break on the calendar.
Repetitions that fall inside the break are automatically redistributed to before or after it. The plan after the break is also shaped around your daily target.
A start date in the past records time you were already away and applies that period to the streak. Anything that fell due during it keeps the placement it already received from today onward.
The length limit differs for the two halves. The part reaching from today onward may run 31 days; the part behind today may run 180. Blocking out a long stretch ahead has real consequences for the plan, while writing down what already happened has none.
Three ways to move
Choose which direction things move.
| Reschedule | What happens | When it suits |
|---|---|---|
| Move earlier | Gathers on the day before the break. | Clearing the decks before leaving. |
| Move later | Sends to the day after. | The run-up is busy and it can wait until you return. |
| Balanced | Decides per record. | When you are unsure. This is the default. |
Balanced weighs how much a record would be forgotten by the far side of the break. Records at real risk of slipping, and important ones, move earlier; the rest move later.
See the effect first
- Open Add break on the calendar.
- Set the start and end dates and how things should move. A reason is optional.
- Choose “Preview changes” to see how many move, as “Earlier N · Later N”.
- Check it and choose “Confirm break”.
When the start date is in the past the preview reports that it will be recorded as time away, rather than a count, because nothing needs moving.
The break stays listed on the calendar and can be removed from there. Removing it returns the plan to where it would have been without the break, and the streak to not having counted those days.
Set one on the calendarWhat it does to your streak
The streak counts back from today over days when you recalled at least one thing. Declared break days put the streak on hold, so the days on either side are treated as one unbroken run.
While a break is running, the figure beside the heading reads as on hold instead, so it never looks like it is still climbing.
This applies to the period you explicitly set as a break. Uncovered days in a gap follow the usual streak rules, including when a break covers only part of that gap.
You can also record one afterwards. Create a break with a start date in the past and that gap goes back to not having ended the run.