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Habits and projects are two different shapes of work
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"I want to learn German" and "I want to register my company" both sound like goals. They aren't the same kind of thing, and treating them identically will sink one of them.
A project ends. A habit repeats.
A project has a finish line: the company is registered, the flat is painted, the site is live. Progress is linear, and a progress bar makes sense — you're at 40%, then 70%, then you're done and you don't come back.
A habit has no finish line: running, practising an instrument, writing daily, stretching your back. There's no "done" here. There's only "did it again today". A progress bar is useless, because the thing resets.
Confusing the two produces two classic failures:
Treating a habit like a project: you build a 90-day plan, follow it for 12 days, miss two, and conclude you lost the project. But it was never a project — a missed day breaks nothing unless the accounting is all-or-nothing.
Treating a project like a habit: "I work on it a bit every day", with no ordered steps and no defined end. A year later, you're still working on it a bit.
What each one needs
A project needs: ordered steps, clear completion criteria, dates in a calendar, and someone who's done it before (so you don't discover the traps personally).
A habit needs: a realistic frequency, a trigger attached to something you already do, a minimum unit that counts even on a bad day, and a measure of consistency rather than progress.
The minimum unit is the most important piece
For a habit, define the bad-day version: two minutes of stretching, one page, one short lesson. Not to go easy on yourself, but because the streak is the asset, and a broken streak is much harder to restart than a minimal one is to continue.
Practical rule: "never two missed days in a row". One day is life; two days is a new habit forming.
Many things are actually both
"I want to run a half marathon" is a project (the race has a date) containing a habit (the training). The right structure is a staged plan — which ends — built on top of a routine that repeats.
Whenever you plan something, ask first: does it end, or does it repeat? The answer tells you which tool you need: a list with a finish line, or a series to restart.
Finito has both: guides that finish, and recurring guides that reset daily, weekly or monthly while keeping a count of how many times you've come back. See which fits.
