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Put Habits on Your Calendar
How the Schedule tab works: add habits and goals with daily, weekly, or monthly rhythms, read the month grid, and log from any day.
Add a habit to the Schedule
Open any habit's 3-dot menu and tap "Add to Schedule". Pick a rhythm — daily, weekly with specific days, or monthly with specific dates — and set an optional end date if the habit has a finish line.
Schedule a whole goal at once
Goals have the same option in their 3-dot menu. "Add to Schedule" on a goal puts it on the calendar in one move; "Edit Schedule" changes it later.
Read the month grid
The Schedule tab shows a month grid with dots on days that have scheduled items. Month chips at the top jump you between months.
Tap a day to see what's planned
Tapping a date shows that day's GOALS and HABITS. Empty days say "Nothing added for this day." — a quiet day, not a broken one.
Log right from the day view
You can log any habit directly from a day's list. The structure itself is read-only here — all real editing lives on the Home screen — but logging is always one tap away.
The Schedule tab answers a different question than Home does. Home asks “what am I building?” — Schedule asks “what’s happening today?” Getting habits onto the calendar is what turns a list of intentions into a week you can actually see.
Match the rhythm to the habit
The schedule picker gives you three rhythms, and picking the right one matters more than it looks. Daily is for anchor habits — Drink Water, a morning stretch. Weekly with day circles fits habits that need recovery or realism: Run on Monday, Wednesday, Saturday beats “run daily” for almost everyone. Monthly with the mini date grid covers the once-in-a-while work — reviewing your budget on the 1st, backing up photos on the 15th.
The optional end date is worth using for anything with a natural finish — a 30-day challenge, training that ends on race day. When the date passes, the habit stops appearing on future days instead of lingering as a guilt entry.
One thing you don’t have to do: manually add new habits. The moment you create a habit, it shows up in your Schedule tab — the in-app footnote says exactly that. “Add to Schedule” is for tuning the rhythm, not registering the habit.
Dots are a plan you can read at a glance
Scan the month grid before the week starts. Dots on every single day usually means you’ve overscheduled — a calendar with no white space is a calendar you’ll start ignoring. A realistic month has dense weekdays and lighter weekends, or whatever shape your actual life has. If the dots don’t look like your life, open the 3-dot menu and use “Edit Schedule” until they do.
Why editing lives on Home
The day view is deliberately read-only for structure: you can log from it, but renaming, moving, and deleting happen on the Home screen. That’s a feature. The Schedule tab stays a clean “what’s today” surface you can check in five seconds, without the risk of restructuring your goals while half-awake. Plan on Schedule, build on Home — and when you want to see how the plan is landing, your insights keep score.
Put it into practice
Open ProtoHabit and try it — this guide will still be here.