Habit inheritance / aggregation

[adamvoss]

This proposes a habit that could be would be marked as done by the completion of another habit. In other words an aggregate habit, super-habit, or meta habit.

This may be somewhat related to #51 and may be relevant to some use cases proposed in #121.

I have two examples among my current habits:

Aggregating habits for detailed accounting

I have a "Exercise" habit. Now I want to get into the habit of running. As running is exercise, I would like to give myself credit for the "Exercise" habit" if I run.

What I did:

Check both habits every time I run."Exercise" when I do other exercise.

What I would like to do:

Create habits for all the common exercises I might do, or perhaps a workout program if I started one. Aggregate all of these under the "Exercise" habit. I mark the activity actually performed. If I engage in some Form of exercise not at all habitual, I mark "Exercise" directly. If there is an activity I no longer partake in (ex. completed workout program) I archive the habit.

Aggregating habits to reduce the number of habits

I have a "Morning Meditation" habit and an "Evening Meditation" habit. I have decided to switch to meditation once daily and thus want a "Meditate" habit. Both "Morning Meditation" and "Evening Meditation" are meditation so I would like to aggregate their data into the "Meditate" habit.

What I did:

Manually copied the history from the two previous habits into my new habit and archived the old habits.

What I would like to do:

Make the new habit that aggregates the two old ones to take on all of their history. I could archive the two old ones and just use the new habit. If I was unsure of the change or if I wanted to keep track of when I did the habit, I could continue to mark the old habits while paying attention to the completion/statistics on the new habit.

[adamvoss]

@iSoron Would you mind triaging this item (adding tags/comment on appropriateness)?

I have not looked at the code yet but I am considering implementing this. I expect it would not be a small change and would want to make sure it isn't an inherently undesired feature before digging into it.

[iSoron]

Hi @vossad01, my main concern with this feature is implementing it in a way that is intuitive to use. If you want to go ahead and implement a proof of concept, I would be glad to have a look.

For the first feature, I believe #31 would provide something very similar to what you describe. The only difference is that you would not be able to put checkmarks on the tag itself.

[iSoron]

Moving this discussion to #495.