Categories: Group Your Habits

Categories group your habits by area of life, for example Health & Fitness, Mindfulness or Learning. Each category has a name, an emoji and a colour. Categories help you filter the Dashboard, the Tracker and My Habits, and they show up in the Analytics breakdown.

Categories page listing Health and Fitness, Mindfulness, Productivity, Learning and Self-Care, each with Edit and Delete buttons, and a New Category button at the top — The Categories page: one card per category with Edit and Delete buttons

Open Categories from the Daily practice group in the sidebar. The page shows a New Category button and one row per category, with its name, colour and the number of habits in it.

Categories list with five rows: Health and Fitness, Mindfulness, Productivity, Learning and Self-Care. Each row has a coloured icon, a habit count, a pencil button and a trash button — The category list: each row shows the icon, the name, the habit count and the edit and delete buttons

What you see

The category's emoji and colour.
The number of habits in the category.
The Edit (pencil) and Delete (trash) buttons on each row.

Create a category

Click New Category.
Type a Category Name, for example Health & Fitness.
Choose an Emoji and a Color.
Click Create.

Use Cancel to close the form without saving.

New Category form with a Category Name field, a row of emoji choices, a row of colour swatches, and Create and Cancel buttons — The New Category form: name, emoji and colour, with Create and Cancel at the bottom

Edit a category

Click Edit on a category row. The form opens with its current name, emoji and colour. Change what you need and click Save. Renaming a category doesn't change the habits in it.

Edit Category form with the name Health and Fitness, the selected emoji and colour highlighted, and Save and Cancel buttons — The Edit Category form, filled in with the current name, emoji and colour

Delete a category

Click Delete on a category row and confirm.

Confirmation dialog titled Health and Fitness asking whether to delete this category and all habits in it, with Cancel and Delete buttons — The delete confirmation: it names the category and warns that its habits will be removed

Deleting a category also deletes every habit in it. The confirmation says so: Delete this category and all habits in it? This also removes those habits from your tracker. Move the habits to another category first if you want to keep them. Edit each habit on My Habits and change its Category.

Where categories show up

Dashboard rail. Each category has a button with its colour and the number of daily and weekly habits in it. Click it to filter the list. See The Dashboard.
My Habits. The rail on the left lists all habits and then each category with its count. Habits are grouped under their category in the list. See My Habits.
Analytics. The category summaries use your categories to show progress by area.

Frequently asked questions

FAQ

Categories that come with your account are marked Default. You can still edit them or delete them, the same as any other category.

Yes. Open the habit with Edit on My Habits, pick a different Category and click Save.

The rail lists the categories that your habits use. Create a habit in the category, or assign one of your habits to it, and it will appear.

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