FlexHabits
FlexHabits is Onmi’s web app for working towards wellbeing, personal development, and professional skills goals through small, practical actions.
Users choose a goal, follow a personalised program, and try activities that encourage them to move beyond familiar routines. Powered by FlexAPI, FlexHabits brings our behaviour change content into an accessible everyday experience.
From goals to everyday action
Familiar routines make life easier, but they can also keep us responding in the same ways, even when we want something to change.
FlexHabits uses the Do Something Different approach to turn goals into opportunities for behavioural experimentation. Each program includes small activities called Do’s, inviting users to try a different response, approach a situation differently, or explore something unfamiliar.
The aim is to try, reflect, and learn. Users don’t need to complete every activity perfectly for the experience to offer something useful.
What is a Do?
A Do is a short, actionable prompt that encourages someone to explore a behaviour outside their usual routine.
Some Do’s relate directly to a program’s goal. Others introduce variety into everyday activities, creating opportunities to practise being more flexible.
EARLY BIRD.
Today arrive somewhere 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Just sit and daydream without checking your phone or email.
EXPERIMENT EXPRESS.
Today, jump into something new! Try a fresh fruit, listen to a different genre, or walk a new way home. Tiny experiments, terrific transformations!
SWITCH SEATS DAY.
Today don’t sit anywhere that you would normally sit. That’s at the dinner table, at work, watching TV or in a meeting.
A practical way to experiment and reflect
Choose a starting point
Select a predefined program or create a custom program around a goal that matters to you.
Receive prompts by email
Do’s arrive in your inbox, helping you stay connected to your program without having to keep checking the app.
Try an action in everyday life
Explore the activity in your own circumstances and notice what happens.
Reflect on the experience
Record what you tried, what felt unfamiliar, and what you learned. An activity that feels awkward or doesn’t go to plan can still provide a useful insight.
Keep an overview
Manage multiple programs and review your progress from one place.
Designed to fit into everyday life
FlexHabits runs in a web browser, making it accessible across desktop and mobile devices without installing an app.
Participants can select their time zone so program timing reflects where they are.
For teams, organisations, and research projects
FlexHabits provides a participant-facing application for organisations exploring behaviour change and skills development.
Its multi-tenant architecture supports separate organisational environments, with tenant-based separation of user data.
For projects that need an existing interface for delivering personalised programs, FlexHabits brings program access, email prompts, and participant reflection into one application.
Powered by FlexAPI
FlexHabits uses FlexAPI, Onmi’s backend for generating personalised behaviour change content grounded in the Do Something Different methodology.
FlexAPI generates the content; FlexHabits provides the experience through which participants receive, try, and reflect on it.
Evolving With You
FlexHabits is in its first release. We’re using feedback from early users and project partners to improve the experience and guide further development.
Our focus is on making programs more useful, personalisation more relevant, and participation easier to sustain.