Guide · 4 min read
Track Separate Lives with Profiles
Create fully separate spaces for work, family, and you — switch in two taps, archive what's dormant, and keep every profile's data on its own.
Find the profile switcher
Open Settings and tap the profile card — it reads "Active profile · N total". Once you have two or more profiles, the switcher is also one tap away in the Home header.
Create a second profile
In the switcher sheet, tap "New profile". Give it a name and an avatar photo. It opens as a completely blank space — its own goals, habits, streaks, and history.
Switch whenever the context changes
Tap a profile in the sheet to switch. Everything on Home, Schedule, and Mojo swaps to that profile's world — nothing bleeds between them.
Archive a profile you're not using
A seasonal or finished profile doesn't have to clutter the switcher. Choose Archive — the app confirms with "Archive profile?" — and restore it from Archived whenever it's relevant again.
Delete only when you mean it
The "Delete permanently?" option does what it says. If there's any chance you'll want the history back, archive instead — archiving keeps everything, deleting keeps nothing.
One tracker, one life — that’s the assumption most habit apps make, and it breaks the moment your work habits, your family routines, and your personal goals start elbowing each other on the same screen. Profiles fix that: separate work, family & you.
Each profile is a whole separate space
A profile isn’t a filter or a tag — it’s a fully separate space. Its own goals, its own habits, its own streaks and achievements, its own Mojo feed built from its own data. When you switch, you’re not hiding rows; you’re stepping into a different room. That’s why the split feels clean: your “This week” card in your personal profile doesn’t know or care that your work profile had a rough Tuesday.
Good splits are contexts, not categories. “Work” and “Personal” is the classic pair. A shared family profile for household routines works well. Some people run a profile for a specific season — marathon training, a savings sprint — and archive it when the season ends.
Switching is cheap, so use it
With two or more profiles, the Home header gets you to the switcher without a trip through Settings. Two taps and you’ve changed worlds. That makes a practical rhythm possible: work profile during work hours, personal profile at home. Give each profile a distinct avatar photo — when you’re switching often, recognizing the space at a glance beats reading the name.
Archive first, delete rarely
The lifecycle options matter more than they look. Archive (“Archive profile?”) tucks a profile away without touching its data — the training profile from last spring can come back next spring with its whole history intact, via the Archived list. Delete permanently? is the point of no return, and the question mark is there for a reason. The rule of thumb: archive when a chapter closes, delete only when you’re sure the story’s over.
However many profiles you run, each space stays as private as the rest of the app — your data lives on-device. For what’s free and what’s not, see Free vs Premium.
Put it into practice
Open ProtoHabit and try it — this guide will still be here.