Most habit trackers are built around a streak: miss a day, and the counter resets. That motivates you right up to the first miss, and then it starts to weigh on you. Recurring tasks in Sklop work differently: they show what happened and don't judge you.
Four states of a day
A day cell in the table is in one of four states:
- Done. The cell carries your stamp: the symbol and color you picked for this task.
- Missed. A pale red cell with a cross. No exclamation marks and no red banners.
- Day off. A gray cell. The task wasn't scheduled for that day, or you marked it as a day off yourself.
- Ahead. An empty outline. The day hasn't come yet or isn't over yet.
The key difference here is between a miss and a day off. If you run on weekdays, Saturday isn't a miss but a day off, and it doesn't count as a failure in your stats.
Schedule and dates
A recurring task has a schedule: every day or selected days of the week. It has a start date and an optional end date. A three-week course of treatment or exam prep ends on its own, and after the end date the task stops asking for attention.
If you no longer need a task, you can archive it. Its history of marks stays in place, past weeks look exactly as they did, and the task disappears from future periods. Deleting is also possible, but it takes the history with it, so Sklop asks you to confirm.
How the completion rate is calculated
The percentage at the end of the row counts only closed days: done divided by done plus missed. Days that are still ahead don't go into the denominator.
That means a Monday with the task done gives one hundred percent, not fourteen. A perfect start to the week looks perfect. If there are no closed days yet, there's no percentage at all: zero would be a claim of failure, and nobody has failed.
A stamp instead of a checkmark
You mark a task with a stamp impression and a short animation. The set has twenty-four designs: from a sun and a book to a dumbbell and a cup. The task color comes from a palette or an eyedropper. It's a small reward for a real action, and it works better than you'd think.
Tags and the calendar
Recurring tasks can have tags, just like tasks. In the calendar widget, tags become layers: chips above the grid turn the stamps of a group's tasks on and off. That way a single month calendar shows how your health routine went, without the rest getting in the way.
In short
A recurring task in Sklop isn't a competition with yourself but a way to watch your rhythm. Misses are visible, but they don't shout. Days off don't spoil the stats. And when a task has done its job, it has an end date or the archive.