Habit Strength is the percentage of scheduled days you actually completed. Every percentage sits on one of five rungs, from Starting to Mastered. The percentage is computed over an interval that ends today. The record of every closed day is frozen; only the current day is editable. We made this choice so your rung can be trusted by you and anyone else.
Just planted. The habit is still a seedling: protect it — do less than you are capable of, and keep the price of showing up low. Every habit starts here.
The habit is taking hold. You keep it about half the time. It still needs tending.
The habit is rooting. You keep it most of the time, and it holds through a bad day without collapsing.
The habit is settling into your life. It has become a routine, and its roots are deep enough to carry weight. This is the rung where it is safe to expand — scale this habit, or add a new one.
Rooted. The habit is now who you are. You do it consistently, and misses are rare.
The number goes up when you complete a habit on a scheduled day, and down when you miss one. Nothing else affects it — not how big the habit is, not what time you did it, not how long you have had it.
Not every habit runs every day. Each one has a frequency — daily, weekdays, weekends, or specific days you choose. Only the habit's scheduled days are used to compute Habit Strength.
Klatos never stops you practising on a day you did not schedule. Klatos is the record — it writes down what you did, scheduled or not. A day you practise off schedule is not discarded: it is counted like any other day you did the habit.
Practising off schedule can lift your score a little, and it will never lower it — but this is neither a prize nor a bonus. The lift is a byproduct of how Klatos works, not a reward it hands out: Klatos stays out of your way and keeps every day you showed up, so a day you practised has to count.
A rest day is a day you deliberately take off a habit. You plan it in advance, before the week starts, and Klatos sets it aside: it does not count as done, and it does not count as missed.
Rest days exist so you can rest every now and then with no penalty instead of burning yourself out trying to hold a schedule. We believe rest is part of any practice that lasts. But it's limited, and it only points forward: you book it ahead, and you cannot relabel a day you already skipped as rest. The help pages carry the exact ration and the reason behind it.
Habit Strength is always measured over a stretch of time. Klatos gives you a few: one shows how you're doing lately, one how the season has gone, one across the whole year. The ladder remains the same. And a percentage translates to the same rung no matter the stretch you pick.
Klatos has three ladders, each serving a different purpose.
Habit Strength — the ladder above — answers how rooted the habit is.
Milestones answers how much of the habit you have done in total. It has its own ten-rung ladder, ranging from Spark (25 completions) to Oracle (10,000 completions). This ladder can only go up.
Streak answers how long your current run is. It counts completed days in a row, without a break. It has five rungs, ranging from a week to a year of uninterrupted practice. This ladder resets to zero after a missed day.
Where you stand on one ladder says nothing about the other two. They give different perspectives on the same record, so reading all three brings richer insights in your quest for a better self.
The simulator shows what the same misses do to a streak and to Habit Strength.
Every rule Klatos holds you to is on the help pages, with the reason behind it. If one still seems arbitrary, write to us — the person who built it answers.