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For those using taskwarrior, there is karmawarrior for lightweight gamification https://gitlab.com/BlackEdder/karmawarrior
I actually wrote karmawarrior after switching from habitica to taskwarrior, because I missed the positive reinforcement/gamification aspect of habitica.
There's also the nuclear option, AKA beeminder.com. You set your goals, choose a financial punishment, and you get charged on failing. Works pretty great.
Why not just use a rubber band on your wrist and a sting each time? It provides the same conditioned response to not doing your work but you don't have to pay for it.
1. Beeminder can, if you want it to do so, increase punishments up to an arbitrary amount. There are situations where you want your punishment to be extremely high, so that you know losing is not an option.
2. Some people have a problem with entering the right amounts of data, or even tracking all their stuff. Beeminder is automated.
Do whatever works, though. The rubber band approach isn't bad. Some people might prefer automated scripts that send out compromising photos or destroy data if certain conditions are met. There are a lot of approaches.
Habit trackers are great when you pair them with a smart watch and automations. I use an app called Streaks, Apple Watch and Shortcuts. Streaks can pick up health data and in Shortcuts I’ve set it up so it increments a counter in Streaks to keep track of when I open Instagram or Twitter. I’m not sure it gives me enough motivation to do something I don’t want to. But it does help me stay on track and not forget the th…
Actually, do you find the counter reliable? It hasn’t been working so well for me with the Tally app. Edit: worked well with streaks. I think tally’s shortcuts integration is poor, whereas Streaks’ is excellent
Habit trackers are great when you pair them with a smart watch and automations. I use an app called Streaks, Apple Watch and Shortcuts. Streaks can pick up health data and in Shortcuts I’ve set it up so it increments a counter in Streaks to keep track of when I open Instagram or Twitter. I’m not sure it gives me enough motivation to do something I don’t want to. But it does help me stay on track and not forget the th…
Have you used Habitica ? How does it compare to Streaks ? I was interest in trying Streaks also for the reason that it has a clean UI and an Apple Watch app but the high price is turning me down.