A quieter week after Season 0's finish: 39 changes merged, sixteen of them on Wednesday and none on Monday. The widget got a second look, a calm gradient you can pick instead of the artwork. The free template is listed in Notion's template gallery. Season 1 has its own page, dated January 2027. A bridge competition called Cozy Season got its place on the home page before it opens on November 9. Four guides were rewritten in a single day.
Sprint map
One row per story arc, one column per day.
| Sun 1 | Mon 2 | Tue 3 | Wed 4 | Thu 5 | Fri 6 | Sat 7 | |
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| Pick your widget's look | |||||||
| Listed in Notion's template gallery | |||||||
| Season 1 has a page with a corrected date | |||||||
| Where signups come from | |||||||
| The podium on a phone, the demo in the right mode | |||||||
| The template page leads with automatic streaks | |||||||
| Cozy Season, a bridge to January | |||||||
| Four guides rewritten in one day | |||||||
| Under the hood |
Sunday and Wednesday carried the week. Monday had no merges. The second half of the week was dependency updates.
Merges per day
The arcs
In rough chronological order.
Pick your widget's look
The widget's five background scenes are hand-drawn artwork: the streaks, the tavern, the leaderboard, the empty competition view and the podium. Not every Notion page wants a painting in it. Edit Habits now has a Look chip next to the week-start chip with two choices. Hero keeps the artwork. Neutral swaps every scene for a soft gradient in the brand colours, angled a little differently per view. The choice is saved on your account, so every device and every embed shows the same look. Neutral never downloads the artwork at all, which saves about 430 kilobytes per load. Hero stays the default. A follow-up fixed the confirmation. Both chips save the moment you switch them, but the success message appeared out of view in a small embed, so people kept looking for a Save button. A small Saved badge now appears on the chip itself.
Listed in Notion's template gallery
Notion approved the free habit tracker template for its template gallery on Sunday. The template page carries a gallery badge under the hero and offers the listing as a second way in, next to the direct duplicate link, which stays the primary one. The home page mentions the listing in its trust box and on the template card. The structured data that search engines read lists the gallery page alongside the Notion integration page. The two Notion listings, the integration and the template, are kept apart by construction so no link points at the wrong one.
Season 1 has a page with a corrected date
Season 1 runs January 1 to 31, 2027. The Season 0 page and its announcement post had promised December. The move to January was decided in October under the assumption that no date had been promised publicly. It had, so both lines now say January and link the new page. The Season 1 page is a sibling of the Season 0 page: dates, rules, the finisher badge, the naming promise, a section on why January, a FAQ. It is published now so search engines settle on it before the New Year wave. Competing apps had their 2027 pages out between mid September and late October. Since Season 0 ended, the home block under the hero was empty. It now shows a Season 1 teaser card with a countdown until Season 1 itself is live. The Season 0 page is in its finished state: the join steps and the live board are gone, both buttons point to Season 1. The season widget's empty state does the same.
Where signups come from
Since late October almost every signup arrived without a source: no referrer, no campaign tag. Two changes make the acquisition path visible without tracking people. The signup event in the site's cookieless analytics now carries the sign-up method and, where present, the first-touch campaign tags and the referring site's hostname. Hostname only, no user id, every string cut to a hundred characters. Links that leave the site carry campaign tags that name the placement: duel and competition invites, the group join link, the share of a featured competition, the widget's calls to action. Acquisition mails from the app do the same. The analytics documentation records the scheme.
The podium on a phone, the demo in the right mode
On a 360-pixel Notion embed the podium's three columns were squeezed. Names broke mid-word, "points" split in two and the third-place label spilled over the compare button. The columns now grow with their content and shrink evenly on a phone. Names wrap at word boundaries. The score and its unit sit inside the block. On a desktop embed nothing moved. The live demo on the template page and the widget page ran as a native-tracking account, which hid the Update button and showed an in-widget check-in grid while the copy above it said you keep ticking your boxes in Notion. The demo shows the Notion-connected flow again.
The template page leads with automatic streaks
Search data showed the October split working: the templates roundup ranks for the template searches on its own, while the template page still appeared far down for the "free template" variants and dragged the blended position with it. The template page now leads with what the roundup cannot offer, a comparison of formula streaks against automatic streaks. The table stacks into cards below 600 pixels and sits before the live demo. The duels section was rewritten with a Season 1 link. The page title lost its "Free" suffix. The footer links the roundup under Best templates, its first sitewide link. The roundup got real calls to action: a button to the template page after "Our pick" and linked names in both comparison tables. Nine guides carry one link each to the widget page. Clicks on both targets are counted.
Cozy Season, a bridge to January
Between Season 0 and Season 1 there is a featured bridge competition, Cozy Season, November 9 to December 31. The featured card on the home page assumed every featured competition is a numbered season. It would have promised a badge and the right to name the next season. It now knows the difference. A bridge competition gets its own line, "A warm-up for the new year. No badge, just the leaderboard.", plus a compact "Next up: Season 1" strip under the card. The competition page renders the same three variants. Two blog posts that still said the next public competition is Season 1 now name Cozy Season first.
Four guides rewritten in one day
Wednesday carried a content sprint, four articles in one deploy. The guide on tracking habits with others was rebuilt around the shared Notion habit tracker: how sharing works in Notion, members versus guests, what each person sees, tracking as a couple, tracking as a group of three or more. The templates roundup gained a section on aesthetic trackers, five free templates grouped by style plus one paid tracker that shows up in free searches, named as paid. The setup guide became a 2026 edition: what changed in Notion and in Habit Heroes this year, your daily routine after setup, streaks across many habits, a FAQ on forgetting a day. Stale facts went with it, such as the claim that number properties are not picked up. The progress-bar guide got a goal progress tracker: a goals database, a relation from day pages, a sum rollup shown as a bar, with its limits spelled out. Every fact was re-checked against Notion's help pages that day.
Under the hood
The Roadmap page is gone. It listed six hard-coded "recently shipped" chips that nobody updated. Old links redirect to the home page. The nightly browser suite was red from Monday to Wednesday because two specs had gone stale. One still expected three template links where the gallery listing had added three more. The other measured a zoomed table in the wrong units. The build image took five routine updates, one per day from Tuesday to Saturday. The app's non-major dependencies landed on Tuesday, the site's on Wednesday. The site's DOM test library took a major version on Friday. The mail that nudges a member to join a competition can carry an optional personal paragraph. The analytics documentation kept pace with every new event location.
Compiled from the merge history across the Notion Habit Heroes app and this site, November 1 to 7, 2026. Wednesday carried sixteen merges, Sunday ten. Monday had none.