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The Journal is where your habits actually live day to day. It’s the first screen you see when you open Habitify, showing exactly what’s due today and nothing more. No matter which platform you’re on, the Journal is built around the same idea: keep today simple and clear, while still giving you the tools to organize, filter, and sort your habits underneath that simplicity. This article walks through how to navigate the Journal, understand how your habits are grouped, and manage the order they appear in, so you can shape it to fit how you actually move through your day.

Switching between lists

At the top of the Journal, right next to All Habits, you’ll find an Area Bar that lets you move between different ways of viewing your day:Areabar Journal I OS
  • All Habits: every habit scheduled for today, in one list.
  • Current Time of Day list: only the habits assigned to that block of time. This automatically jumps to the current time block based on the ranges you’ve set (for example, switching to “Morning” the moment your morning window starts), so you’re not stuck manually flipping tabs throughout the day.
  • Custom Area lists: habits grouped under the Areas you’ve created, like “Health” or “Work.” Instead of scanning your whole day, you can zoom into just one part of your life at a time.

Switching between layouts

Journal has two layouts: Day View and Week View. Daily View keeps your attention on today. Weekly View shows a full week at a glance, so you can spot patterns.To switch between the layouts, tap the layout button next to “All Habits”.Day View and Week View show the same habits from the same list. Only the way each habit is displayed changes.

Day View

Day View shows exactly what’s due today and nothing more. It’s the place to check in, log progress, and see what’s left of your day.Habit Status Journal I OS Copy
  • In progress / uncompleted: habits you haven’t finished yet today. This is the default focus of your list.
  • Completed: habits you’ve already checked off, kept visible so you can see today’s wins at a glance.
  • Skipped: habits that you chose to log it as a cheat day rather than break your streak. A skipped day freezes your streak instead of resetting it.
  • Failed: habits you’re marking honestly as a slip, and want it recorded as-is rather than smoothed over as a skip.
Within the in-progress/uncompleted group specifically, habits are further ordered by their goal type, top to bottom:Habit Type Journal I OS
  • Habits with a goal per day: sits at the top, together, since both are core, everyday actions you’re expected to act on today.
  • Quit Habit(s): habits to quit, or habits to limit with a daily goal.
  • This Week: good habits and limit-type habits with a goal per week.
  • This Month: good habits and limit-type habits with a goal per month.
  • This Year: good habits and limit-type habits with a goal per year.

Week View

Week View shows your habits across a full week, so you can see how they’re trending instead of only what’s due today.The week starts on Monday or Sunday, depending on your selection in Settings > First Day of Week.Every habit gets its own row, with its icon and name above it. Today is highlighted in the day bar at the top. To move between weeks, use the week bar at the bottom of the screen. The selected week is highlighted.How a habit looks depends on its type: a good habit, a habit to limit, or a habit to quit.Week View Good Habit I OSIf you habit is a good habit with goal per day:
  • Each day is one cell representing your progress of the day:
    • A completed day is filled with a solid shade of the habit’s color. Consecutive completed days join into one continuous bar.
    • A day still in progress fills from the bottom up as you log more toward the daily goal.
    • A skipped day is marked with an →.
    • A failed day is marked with an ✕.
  • On days when the habit doesn’t repeat or haven’t started yet, the cell is hatched with diagonal lines.
  • Your streak appears as a 🔥 with its length (for example, 🔥7d) on the cell of the last day you completed the daily goal.
If you habit is a good habit with goal per week, month, or year:
  • The period is one seamless stripe
  • The stripe shows your progress toward the goal and fills as you log. For example, 2/7 times this week, or 27/30 km August 2026.
  • On the right of the habit name is your streak, counted in weeks, months, or years to match the goal period (for example, 🔥2w or 🔥3m). It’s counted up to the week you’re viewing, so it may changes as you move between weeks. Week View Bad Habit I OS
If you habit is a bad habit to quit:
  • Habits to quit have no goal period. They’re tracked day by day.
  • Each day is one cell representing your day:
    • A day you stayed on track is filled with a solid shade of the habit’s color. Consecutive days join into one continuous bar.
    • A day you check in ‘Fail’ is marked with an ✕.
    • A day you check in ‘Skip’ is marked with an →.
  • On days before your habit’s start date, the cell is hatched with diagonal lines.
  • Your streak appears as a 🔥 with its length (for example, 🔥3d) on the cell of the last day you stayed on track.
If you habit is a bad habit to limit per day:
  • Each day is one cell that shows the amount you logged that day (for example, 15m), with a marker under the amount that shows where you stand:
    • a grey •󠁏 means you’re within your limit.
    • an orange ▲ means you’ve reached your limit.
    • a red ✕ means you’ve overdone it.
  • a day you check in ‘Skip’ directly is marked with an →.
  • a day you check in ‘Fail’ directly is marked with an ✕.
If you habit is a bad habit to limit per week, month, or year
  • The period is one seamless stripe with a + button on its left, the stripe is extended until ‘tomorrow’ in the current week, and will lengthen gradually until the end of the week.
  • The stripe shows how much you’ve logged against your limit for that period.
  • The stripe shows your progress against the limit and fills as you log. For example, 27/60 minutes this week, or 2/5 times this month.

Managing habit order

Tap the sort button in the top-right corner of the Journal to arrange your list by:
  • A-Z or Z-A: habits are ordered alphabetically by their name.
  • Reminder Time: habits ordered chronologically their first reminder in the day.
  • My Habits Order: habits are positioned however you decide, manually.
These settings are only applied for the habit order in the ‘All Habits’ list

How sorting is applied in each layout

  • Day View: habits are sub-categorized first (by status, and by goal type within In progress / uncompleted), then sorted in your selected order inside each group.
  • Week View: habits are sorted in your selected order across one continuous list, regardless of their status, type, or goal period.

How to customize ‘My Habits Order’

  1. In Journal, view thew ‘All Habits’ list.
  2. Tap on the sort button on the date bar.
  3. Tap the sort button again, then choose ‘Reorder Habits’.
  4. Hold on the ☰ icon on the right of the habit, then drag it up or down to its new position.
  5. When everything is set, tap the ✓ button on the top right corner to save the changes.
Order is independent per list.Rearranging “All Habits” doesn’t change the order inside a Time of Day list or a Custom Area lists.
  • To manage the habit order in each Time of Day list: go to Settings → Time of Day → choose time block → arrange the habits in ‘Included’ section.
  • To manage the habit order in each Custom Area list: go to Settings → All Areas → choose an area → arrange the habits in ‘Included’ list section.

Searching habits

To navigate through your long habit list and find the habit you want:
  • In Journal, hold and drag down your habit list.
  • Hold your screen until you see the 🔍︎ button, then drag it to the right to select the function.
  • Enter the habit you want to access in the search, the result shows immediately based on your input.
  • From the search result, you can check in on your habit directly.
To exit the search, simply tap on ‘Cancel’.

Journal on iPhone Duo

Journal adapts to how you hold and fold your iPhone Duo, so the layout always fits the screen you’re using.Below is a short video for the preview of Journal on iPhone duo:
When your iPhone Duo is folded, Journal looks the same as it does on a standard iPhone, just with a shorter height. The navigation buttons for the other tabs sit on the right side of the screen.When you unfold it, Journal switches to the iPad version, which gives you much more room to work:
  • On the left, the sidebar lets you move between your Areas and the other tabs, such as Progress, Friends, and Reflection.
  • On the right, you’ll find the date bar along with the button to sort your habits or switch the layout between Day and Week view.

FAQs

Currently, the Day view only supports viewing your schedule for Today and Tomorrow.The Day view is engineered specifically for immediate execution. While looking ahead might feel like productive planning, seeing an endless, rolling list of upcoming daily tasks often leads to “checklist fatigue” and overwhelm. By restricting your forward visibility to just the next 24 hours, Habitify keeps your cognitive load light. It encourages you to focus entirely on winning today and making basic preparations for tomorrow, without letting the weight of next week’s commitments paralyze your current momentum.
You can navigate back up to 30 days in the past when using the Day View.By keeping the Day View restricted to a 30-day rolling window, the app ensures that your daily tracker remains fast, lightweight, and focused purely on your current momentum, rather than bogging you down in the microscopic details of the distant past.
Habitify limits your Week view history to a rolling 54-week window to provide a complete picture of your annual progress while ensuring your data remains highly relevant to your current life.