A goal like Stay fit and healthy is about keeping up the habits behind it: cardio, strength training, eating healthy, and no alcohol. The Habit completion success metric measures a goal by how consistently you keep the habits linked to it. You set the average completion you aim for, such as 80%, and Griply calculates the goal's progress from your habit completions, so there's nothing to log by hand.

Think of it as one score for a set of habits. Each habit is measured against its own schedule, and the goal shows how well you keep them on average.

A habit can also move a number goal with every completion. With Update goal progress switched on, a Cycle habit adds each ride's kilometers to a Cycle 1000km goal. Use that when the goal has a number to reach, and Habit completion when the goal is the habits themselves. One habit can do both for different goals: Cycle can update Cycle 1000km and still count toward Stay fit and healthy.

You choose the metric in the Success metric field of the goal dialog, and follow the results on the goal's Overview, in the Progress card and, on Desktop, the Habit progress card.

Setting Up a Habit Completion Goal

To measure a goal by its habits:

1. Create a new goal, or open an existing goal's edit dialog.

2. In the Success metric field, choose Habit completion. You'll find it in the Complete your work group.

3. In Success when, enter the average completion you aim for. The field reads as a sentence: "80 avg. completion or higher".

4. Set the start date and, if you want one, a deadline. There's no start value or target value to fill in.

5. Save the goal.

6. Link the habits that belong to the goal. In each habit's Contributes to field, pick this goal or one of its subgoals.

The Target row at the top of the goal's Overview now reads "80% habit completion". Habits that were already linked to the goal count straight away.

Available Options

Success When

Success when is the only number a Habit completion goal needs. It's the average habit completion you count as success. With 80, the goal reaches 100% progress once your habits average 80% or more.

Which Habits Count

• Habits linked to the goal.

• Habits linked to any of its subgoals, at every level.

• Habits you marked Complete forever, up to the moment you completed them.

Archived habits don't count.

Period Options

The Progress card has a period selector, so you can check your habits over the stretch of time you care about:

The Habit progress card has its own selector, so the two cards can show different periods.

How Progress Is Calculated

If your habits average 40% and the goal shows 50%, the threshold explains the gap. Griply calculates a Habit completion goal in three steps:

1. Each habit gets its own completion rate, measured against its own schedule: completions divided by the times it was expected. A cardio habit scheduled twice a week and done twice scores 100%, the same as a daily habit kept every day. Only completed days count. A skipped day still counts as expected, so the same habit with one completion and one skip scores 50% that week.

2. The goal's habit completion is the average of those rates, with every habit weighted equally. A weekly habit counts as much as a daily one.

3. The goal's progress is that average divided by your Success when threshold. With a threshold of 80%, an average of 40% is 50% progress. Once the average reaches 80%, the goal is at 100%.

That progress percentage is what you see on the Goals screen, in the Roadmap, and on the goal card. There it covers the goal's whole range, from its start date to its deadline, the same span as All time.

Griply runs this calculation week by week. For a habit that repeats less often than weekly, or a number of times per month, each week's score covers one of the habit's own periods up to that week's last day. For a monthly habit, that's the month up to that day.

Reading the Progress Card

The Progress card tells you whether you're keeping your habits well enough over a period. It shows your average habit completion against the threshold, for example "16% / 80% habit completion", for the period picked in its selector.

The chart plots one point per week, with a horizontal line at your threshold. Weeks where your average reached the threshold are filled green.

On Desktop, the linked habits of a Habit completion goal are listed in the Habit progress card below this one, not in boxes inside it. For the progress charts on other goals and on habits, see Progress Tracking.

Reading the Habit Progress Card

Note: The Habit progress card is available on the desktop and web apps.

The Habit progress card sits below the Progress card and lists every habit that counts toward the goal, each with its own progress over the period you pick in the card's selector.

On a Stay fit and healthy goal with a threshold of 80, the card reads:

• Cardio workout: 72%

• Eat healthy: 18%

• No alcohol: 63% on track

• Strength workout: 38%

Eat healthy is the habit to work on first.

For a habit that repeats daily, on weekdays, or a few times per week, the value is the average of its weekly rates over the selected period. Cardio workout's 72% means you averaged 72% of its expected workouts per week.

For a habit that repeats less often than weekly, or a number of times per month, the value is a pace, labeled on track with an info icon. No alcohol, scheduled 20 times per month, is one of those.

Habits Marked On Track

A week is too short to judge a habit that repeats monthly, every 2 weeks, yearly, or 8 times per month. These habits show a pace: how well you're keeping up within the habit's current period.

The current period is the habit's own: the calendar month, the 2-week block, or the year. Griply first works out how many times the habit was expected so far in that period.

For a habit set to a number of times per period, the expected count is prorated by the days that have passed: 8 times per month, 15 days into a 30-day month, expects 4. For a habit on fixed dates, like the 1st and the 15th, it's the scheduled days that have already passed, and today counts once you've done it. The expected count is always rounded down to whole times.

The pace is your completions divided by that expected count, capped at 100%. When nothing is expected yet, the pace is 100%: nothing is behind.

Take 8 times per month, halfway through the month. Four completions is 100%, three is 75%, and six is still 100%, because being ahead doesn't count extra.

Every new period starts fresh. On 2 July, the same habit expects 8 × 2/31 times, about 0.5, which rounds down to 0, so the pace is back at 100%.

The value shown is the pace on one day: today, or the last day of the selected period if that period has ended. The mini chart shows the pace at the end of every full week in the period, plus the current week so far.

On track appears only in the Habit progress card. The goal's own habit completion counts these habits through the weekly calculation described above.

Best Practices

• Set the threshold below 100 → At 100, one missed occurrence keeps the goal under 100%.

• Schedule habits honestly → A daily habit done three times a week scores 43%.

• Link only the habits that define the goal → Every habit weighs the same.

• Retire a habit with Complete forever → Its past completions keep counting. Archived habits don't count.