The right way to be using org-habits is not to have tasks that are being marked as done... they are meant to be repeating tasks. See:
[[info:org#Repeated tasks]] in the orgmode manual to set these up. J. David Boyd writes: > I think these are working, but how do I tell for certain. > > If I am in the file with the habit, and I changed it from TODO to DONE, > it stays DONE, and I get an entry in PROPERTIES about 'last repeat', > yeah, seems to be fine. > > But if I mark it DONE in the agenda, it stays DONE, I think. I was > interrupted halfway through, and am not certain what I did. > > Should it work the same from the agenda that it does from the file? I > mean, I don't expect to see it say DONE, I expect it to disappear. > > What should I see?