What's the problem or gap?
As someone with ADHD, streaks and relapses don't work for me. They act like self imposed permanent blemishes and stressors/threats. "Do your duolingo because you will loose your streak" rather than because you want to learn a language, your excited to do it, or because you can see your proficiency improving over time.
The app is innately trust model based, the user must self report when they've relapsed and truthfully check-in. When faced with the idea of "Did I look after myself today" or maybe even for the past three days retroactively, it's easier to just fudge the number, keep the streak going, don't have that permanent blemish counter count up. After all it'd take x days to get back up to the streak.
Describe your idea
An optional toggle to switch to a trends mode that instead of tracking streaks or relapses, tracks a percentage Habit Health metric, say over a 30 day period. If you have to mark down that today wasn't a success after 30 days of great progress, you'll see only a slight drop in your percentage, which motivates you to bring it back up rather than throw your hands up and go "well, that's 100 days lost, may as well give up". There could even be an Insight box below the tree which says something motivating along the lines of, "Dont sweat it, overall your still up 12% habit health vs this time last month", as an example.
This could be potentially implemented in two ways, this could be made and combined with an overall trend view accessible in all modes, showing different time frames, graphs, boxes/dots in a grid. Cross-habit trends etc and give people the option to shift their number box stats to trend rather than streak/relapses or it could be implemented as a totally seperate mode alongside the abstain/check in.
Why does it fit Grove?
This would make my motivation much more tough, rather than brittle to shattering on my first bad day. It allows people to track less make-it or break it self improvement habits. (Drinking might be a serious slip for someone working on that, but forgetting to brush your teeth, while not great, isn't as concequential, what matters much more is the overall progress and motivation to improving your average. It also fits for people who have different motivation reinforcing traits.
What's the problem or gap?
As someone with ADHD, streaks and relapses don't work for me. They act like self imposed permanent blemishes and stressors/threats. "Do your duolingo because you will loose your streak" rather than because you want to learn a language, your excited to do it, or because you can see your proficiency improving over time.
The app is innately trust model based, the user must self report when they've relapsed and truthfully check-in. When faced with the idea of "Did I look after myself today" or maybe even for the past three days retroactively, it's easier to just fudge the number, keep the streak going, don't have that permanent blemish counter count up. After all it'd take x days to get back up to the streak.
Describe your idea
An optional toggle to switch to a trends mode that instead of tracking streaks or relapses, tracks a percentage Habit Health metric, say over a 30 day period. If you have to mark down that today wasn't a success after 30 days of great progress, you'll see only a slight drop in your percentage, which motivates you to bring it back up rather than throw your hands up and go "well, that's 100 days lost, may as well give up". There could even be an Insight box below the tree which says something motivating along the lines of, "Dont sweat it, overall your still up 12% habit health vs this time last month", as an example.
This could be potentially implemented in two ways, this could be made and combined with an overall trend view accessible in all modes, showing different time frames, graphs, boxes/dots in a grid. Cross-habit trends etc and give people the option to shift their number box stats to trend rather than streak/relapses or it could be implemented as a totally seperate mode alongside the abstain/check in.
Why does it fit Grove?
This would make my motivation much more tough, rather than brittle to shattering on my first bad day. It allows people to track less make-it or break it self improvement habits. (Drinking might be a serious slip for someone working on that, but forgetting to brush your teeth, while not great, isn't as concequential, what matters much more is the overall progress and motivation to improving your average. It also fits for people who have different motivation reinforcing traits.