I've tried many apps to track my actions and in long term it doesn't work.
Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
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Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#12I've tried many apps to track my actions and in long term it doesn't work.
Ditto. This stuff seems good and is somewhat motivating at first. But it never works out in the long term.
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#13Why does this need to be an online app? Why do I need to run my own instance if I want control over my data? An offline app would work just fine, no? After all this is nothing more than a glorified todo list.
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#14Is anyone had success keeping habits with this app?
What alternatives do you recommend?
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#15How come HabitRPG gets posted to HN every month? (Albeit under a new name for the past few years?)
Because the community find it fairly interesting and upvote the submission.
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#16I've tried many apps to track my actions and in long term it doesn't work.
Yes, I wouldn't use this for anything other than having a bit of fun.
Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#17I've tried many apps to track my actions and in long term it doesn't work.
Ditto. This stuff seems good and is somewhat motivating at first. But it never works out in the long term.
For me, I think it's that tracking all the stuff in the app ends up being a bit of a chore. So my mind associates the habit I'm trying to build with that slightly negative feeling.
I think it also mixes up intrinsic vs extrinsic rewards. It's less about building satisfaction or enjoyment out of the actual habit (intrinsic) and more about the tracking of that habit (extrinsic). So then the habit just remains a chore.
That's my experience at least, I realize it's different for a lot of people.
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#18I used to use habitica and it was pretty fun, and it helped me organize a lot of my repeated but non-daily tasks, like remembering when to put the garbage out, going to the gym, etc. For me, the biggest problem of habits and routines I think is actually remembering them and a notification to do them at a time, because I easily lose track of time.
Now I use todoist, and while it's not the same, I like todoist, and am enjoying it more. The browser extensions are nice. It has karma and tracks things, although doesn't have the idea that you should have completed things, which can make things a bit tricky, but overall it's really helped me get things out of my mind and into lists.
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#19Is anyone had success keeping habits with this app? What alternatives do you recommend?
If you have so many goals that you need software to track them, I'd be worried that you're spreading yourself too thin...
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#20Is anyone had success keeping habits with this app? What alternatives do you recommend?
I quit reddit using this app.
I was quite addicted and would constantly and unconsciously open reddit, and even though I was only participating in smaller, innocently looking subs, they were actually quite toxic. R/learnJapanese was fx full of people who wanted to learn Japanese and wanted everybody else to stop so they could have it for themselves.
I added it as a negative task and that made me conscientious about my visits and made me quit.
It also got me started flossing.
Weekly tasks that did not have a specific day, I failed at, but I think it was the open nature of when they had to be done and not the games fault.
But just those two habits was a big win.