Chain Segment

A habit's real history is rarely one unbroken line. It's broken, restarted, sometimes abandoned for a season and picked back up months later — and a chain segment is the concept that makes room for that reality instead of hiding it. Every continuous run of completed days is a segment: your current, still-growing run is the active segment, and it's what shows up front and center as "your streak." But every earlier segment stays in the habit's history rather than getting erased when a chain breaks and a new one starts. That matters more than it sounds like it should. Most streak apps treat a break as a reset to zero, which quietly implies that everything before it stopped counting. Segment history says the opposite: the six-week run you had in February still happened, still counts as proof you can do this, even though the chain in front of you today started three weeks ago. Free accounts can see a summary of recent segments; premium accounts get the full segment history with stats across all of them. Either way, the chain in front of you is never the whole story — it's just the current chapter.