Tap on a habit in the list to edit it.
Broadly, there are 2 main times when you'll be editing a habit:
When you're planning it
When you're reviewing it (recommended at least weekly)
Planning
Habit name & details
Tap the chevron to expand. Give the habit a brief name (keep to 1 line). Expand on the details. You might want to cover why it's important, scope, etc.
Habit status
It's tempting to make it active straight away, but think carefully. Is this is the most important thing to be working on right now, given the other habits in the list, and goals that need supporting? Are there factors that could inhibit progress right now (e.g. dependencies)?
There are limits on the number of active habits at any one time to maintain focus.
Habit implementation
The app contains a pop-up guide on research-based best practices for habit implementation. We recommend that you develop your own brief implementation "recipe" for your habit, using principles in this guide, and record it in the app. This includes optional setting of a reminder.
Target completions per week
Keeping things simple, the focus is on a single habit completion a day, and you can choose the target number of completions a week (the actual number of completions per week is tracked in the Journal during Daily Review).
Link habit with enabled goals
You have the option to link a habit to multiple goals if you wish. This is an effective stategy to improve performance and growth by multiplier effects. For example, if you are developing an app (goal), regular learning about app development (habit) is clearly supportive.
Reviewing
Here, you're focused on the Weekly Review section of the habit at the bottom of the screen. This has 4 components:
Progress notes
What's helping
What's challenging
What to do differently
Progress notes
It's useful in each weekly review to make a brief "date-stamped" note on the progress made during the week, covering key things done & achieved.
What's helping / challenging & what to do differently
These are more reflective questions to help capture your learning. They are driving at how to get more of the things that help, and better handle the things that are challenging - usually by doing things differently. In turn, these are usually the drivers of performance improvement and growth.
Some examples of what to do differently for a habit that is off-track (or where there are opportunities for acceleration) could include:
Change the context (find a different place to do it)
Modify the friction (make the habit easier to do, make competing factors harder)
Redefine scope of a single target completion (5 reps vs 10 reps, 10 min vs 30m etc)
Modify the target completions per week (reduce target to get started, then raise the bar)
Change the triggers
Sharpen the initiating action (make it easier to get started)
Modify the state (e.g. moving into Pending, or Archived, depending on priority and readiness)
So, depending on what happens in the Weekly Review, you are likely to find yourself going back and editing elements of the habit a number of times.