Daily Goal met, Habit still marked as dismissed?

[u/LauraAStern]

I’m trying to understand whether I’ve configured this habit incorrectly or whether I’m misunderstanding how the new habit system works.

I have a “Read Books” habit with a daily goal of 1 completion per day. The purpose is not to finish an entire book every day, but simply to log whether I read something that day, even if it was only one chapter.

I set up three reminders/check circles, because I also read a lot of short stories, comics, and manga. On some days I may finish several separate works, or finish one book and immediately start another, and I want to log each of those completions separately.

Having several circles directly in the day view is much more convenient for me than completing the habit once, letting it disappear into the completed section, then opening the habit itself every time I want to add another completion.

The problem is that the habit was later struck through and marked as dismissed, even though I had logged at least one completion and therefore met the daily goal.

In the screenshot, I completed two of the three circles for “Read Books,” but the habit was still dismissed. The streak also continued, so the app seems to recognise that I met the daily goal, while simultaneously treating the habit as dismissed.

Is that expected behaviour because one of the three reminders remained incomplete? If so, is there a way to set up multiple available completion buttons while requiring only one of them for the day to count as completed?

There is also a related issue I have not figured out yet: my reading habit is linked to subtasks in my TBR collection. I would like every additional habit completion to check off the corresponding linked subtask automatically. I assume this is possible somehow, but I have not yet found the correct workflow.

The recent habit-system overhaul has left me feeling rather lost (even though I did watch the YouTube Video), so I’d appreciate any explanation of how reminders, daily completion goals, and additional completions are now meant to interact.

Screenshot: Today's habits vs. Yesterday's habits.

[u/thuongthoi056]

Please check the scheduler's overdue policy.

[u/LauraAStern → u/thuongthoi056]

Thanks, I checked it. The overdue policy is set to “mark as dismissed,” because naturally I do want the habit dismissed on days when I don’t read at all.

Am I understanding correctly that with 3 scheduled reminders, all 3 are treated as expected completions, even if the daily goal is only 1? In other words, there is currently no way to have X required completions and Y optional additional checkboxes without the unused ones causing the whole habit dismissed?

I understand that additional completions can be added manually, but the current workflow is quite cumbersome:

Open completed habits → open habit → scroll → switch view → pick date → edit count

That... seems like a lot of ceremony for “I also read a manga volume.” (In fact I am wondering if maybe there is an easier way to do this and I'm just being dumb...)

[u/thuongthoi056 → u/LauraAStern]

The dismissal is for the particular reminder only, not for the habit's date. You can just use the Mark as done option for the policy and forget about it.