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HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by city41 »

lepht wrote: post #30
city41 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What other ideas did you have in mind? The "do challenges to improve" concept is pretty widely applicable. So far social anxiety is our focus as the whole team that made metamorfus suffers from it. We do have visions of making sister sites based on the metamorfus codebase for professional development, the honey badger movement, no more mr. nice guy movement, etc. That would be a long ways off (if ever), as metamorfus…

Lift[1] has some interesting ideas for using social interactions to achieve non-social goals. Their blog is worth a read. https://lift.do/

Thanks, I had not heard of Lift!

Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by srcreigh »

ntlve wrote: post #17

The Android version is going to need a lot of polish. The menu is jittery and the wrong icons are used. Also the whole app lacks touch feed back so there is no way of telling if you are pressing a button or not until afterwards. Finally, a few idioms like long pressing to edit items and such remain unimplemented which atl east made me confused.

I wonder if the apps are open source. I'm sure they could use a PR if so!

Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by frossie »

stephengillie wrote: post #23

I would go for this if the Dailies and Todos tied into my ticket systems and email somehow -- maybe make it a social button "Send task to HabitRPG"? Email could be sending it to an email (username@habitrpg.com?) like a lot of ticketing systems support. And is there an app?

Yes there is an app, it is simple enough to allow you to tick off tasks, not much else.

There is an API, and I did see integrations with other to-do systems start to pop up.

http://habitrpg.wikia.co/wiki/App_and_Extension_Integrations

I was quite excited to see a discussion about tying in with Trello.

Code is on guthub.

Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by frossie »

quaffapint wrote: post #3

I find the UX not quite there. For example, it doesn't let me stay logged in (no remember me). So, every time I want to check off something I have to bring up the login modal and login (which for some reason doesn't always work with lastpass). Why not include a remember me? Also, there is no way (I know of) to go back in time and check a box. I just started using it, and I forget at night to check that I did get my c…

So I too have been bitten by this, but I think there some merit in forcing you to make a habit of being in daily touch with your lists. I think you're less likely to cheat if you can't go back to rewrite history.

Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by philh »

ntlve wrote: post #17

The Android version is going to need a lot of polish. The menu is jittery and the wrong icons are used. Also the whole app lacks touch feed back so there is no way of telling if you are pressing a button or not until afterwards. Finally, a few idioms like long pressing to edit items and such remain unimplemented which atl east made me confused.

There's a third party app ("Habit AndroRPG") which is considerably better.

Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by tmrtn »

Defeat Ask has been around for a bit. Doesn't really look like it's catching on. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/defeat-task/id674002993?mt=8

By far my fav gasified task list is Carrot to do. Love the story, slick interface. Uber geeky yet awesome. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/carrot-to-do/id591840203?mt=...

Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by gexla »

It's like Pivotal Tracker except you get gold rather than points and you track your life rather than just projects. ;)

Ads are super annoying. Probably the wrong way to monetize something like this. Maybe even make a micro payment as part of the system. Lose X - lose real money. Want to cheat to get your prize? Pay real money.

You could setup Trello to do something like this. Maybe tap into the API to create a report or something. More flexibility, less cuteness.

Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by cfontes »

I was looking for a todo app last week and stumbled on this one too.

Tried it for 2 days and the first problem I had was that using this at work kind of makes you feel stupid and since that is the main feature of the app I dropped it for which is my top contender for the moment Trello. (tried 2Do, Any.do, Asana, RTM, Wunderlist, Todoist, Toodledo, Todoist, Astrid and some others)

I am still not sure if Trello is what I am looking for but it's working OK so far with some added integration with Pipethru(they work good with Jira) and Zapier(Trello integration), tried IFTTT but they don't seen to like trello.

Re: HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

Amazing and Flawed. In it's current form it's psychologically flawed and broken but the main UI is elegant. There's no reason to purchase armor and swords and level up because there's no battle. There's no battle because there's no story. There's no game. There's no meaning. The mind immediately recognizes it all as a trick.

I'd personally keep the look and UI but get rid of the RPG elements and re-balance the game by using pure reward, punishment, and retention (punishment for not coming back daily).

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