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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?