Problem:

Akiflow has no good way to track daily/recurring habits (yoga, journaling, reading).

• Events can't be checked off, so there’s no way to track.

• Recurring tasks can, but a missed instance doesn't simply stay, it becomes overdue and stacks in the backlog while a new instance is also created for the next day. Miss a few days and you're manually deleting stale entries just to keep the app usable.

Example:

I set a daily recurring task "Morning yoga," skip it Monday.
Tuesday I have two yoga entries: Monday's, overdue in the backlog, and Tuesday's fresh.
This compounds every missed day and piles up the app.

Already a known gap:

This makes recurring tasks really inconvenient and there are already several posts highlighting the same problem:

• "Mark a task as Not Done," 36 upvotes, open 2+ years: https://product.akiflow.com/p/mark-a-task-as-not-done

• https://product.akiflow.com/p/automatically-deletemarked-as-complete-clogged-overdue-tasks-on-a-recurring

Solution

Several possible approaches:

1. Toggle on recurring tasks: "don't carry over if missed".
   Incomplete instances just expire instead of going overdue and left on the calendar unchecked for visibility

2. New activity type, "Routine": checkable like a task, but never becomes overdue when missed. Could be later expanded into a brand new product module with habit tracking (like https://ticktick.com/)

3. Do not put recurring tasks in overdue at all

Examples:

• Morgen already solved this with a separate Routines type: time-blocked and checkable, no backlog, no rollover:
  https://www.morgen.so/guides/morgen-routines-guide

• Ticktick solves it with a separate habit tracker:

  https://help.ticktick.com/articles/7055781878401335296