Introduction

This is a short course in Excellence Is a Habit, in eight parts. Each one has you do something in the app, and each is its own page, so you can stop after any of them and come back to the link later.

You’ll build one habit, “Learn Excellence”, and use it to try everything else.

1. Create a Habit: the New Habit form, and what a link does
2. Contexts: tagging habits, nesting tags, and the filter pills
3. Status and Repeats: active, scheduled, paused, archived, and how repeating works
4. Efforts, Notes and the Notebook: logging effort, keeping a record, and reading it back
5. Links and Finding Things: link groups, bulk adding, search, Spotlight
6. Calendar: your month at a glance, your habits in Apple Calendar, and your events in the app
7. Goals: an amount to count up to, and the progress toward it
8. Apple Reminders: your reminders beside your habits (Excellence Pro)

Note

The app adds the “Learn Excellence” habit the first time you open it, so skim Part 1 and start at Part 2. If you deleted it, Help › Create Tutorial Habit brings it back.

The course is written for the Mac. The app works the same on iPhone and iPad, apart from a few controls, and those are called out where they differ.