For those using taskwarrior, there is karmawarrior for lightweight gamification
https://gitlab.com/BlackEdder/karmawarrior
Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
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Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#32It is weird how we have normalized the fact we need an app to remind us to drink water, or work for one hour. I don't see how this can help one make substantial and long changes to one's life and habits.
How is this any different from written daily routines, to do lists, and journals, all of which have been around for centuries/millennia?
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#33Is anyone had success keeping habits with this app? What alternatives do you recommend?
The iOS version worked pretty well for a while, but some flaws kept me from using it regularly.
If you miss to tick your daily routines, the next day you have no clue to whether you're looking at the tasks of yesterday or now. There are no dates at all in the app and you have to explicitly pull down the list to update the view. I don't want to remind my habit tracker app to be ready to track my habits.
I'm actively looking for an alternative.
Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#34I've tried many apps to track my actions and in long term it doesn't work.
I have had much more success printing out spreadsheets (day along the long axis, habits across the short) and using a pen. The interface to generate graphs sucks, but otherwise it’s fantastic.
Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#35An alternate take on gamified productivity: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KwdcMts8P8hacqwrX/noticing-t...
Yeah, this is my experience with duolingo too. I know in my head that all that extrinsic motivation only limits my intrinsic motivation, where the latter is what'll actually get me to learn something. Despite that, it's hard not to do easy exercises just to end up on the leaderboard.
I use uBlock/adBlock, so right click on the Leaderboard, create a custom filter and that's it, bye.
Other features of Duolingo (the streak, the daily goal, etc.) play really well with my own intrinsic motivation, FWIW.
Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#36See also Ben Kuhn's "Make your habits zero-effort" - https://www.benkuhn.net/zero/
"Life hacks abound: Tell your friends about your plan so you’ll be embarrassed if you fail! Make sure you keep an unbroken streak! Charge yourself money if you don’t stick to it! Donate the money to your least favorite charity! Forget donations, how about electric shocks?
The escalating absurdity should tell you that this problem is unsolved. But in my opinion, that’s because everyone tries to do it wrong. Personally, I’ve found my productivity habits to be extremely long-lived when I make sure they’re literally zero maintenance."
Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#37Is anyone had success keeping habits with this app? What alternatives do you recommend?
You can try getting an actual life. I'm not being sardonic. These apps are usually a sign you're addicted to your devices, or the internet.
Just be yourself.
And be good.
Above all, answer people with vaguely worded unverifiable advice to maintain a subtle aura of superiority.
Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#38Is 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...
Home maintenance alone is complex enough to require an exobrain; might as well be a software one.
Same goes for keeping more than a handful of healthy, positive friendships.
Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#39It is weird how we have normalized the fact we need an app to remind us to drink water, or work for one hour. I don't see how this can help one make substantial and long changes to one's life and habits.
How is this any different from written daily routines, to do lists, and journals, all of which have been around for centuries/millennia?
I agree, I think your parent is confusing symptoms for causes.
Re: Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
#40I've tried many apps to track my actions and in long term it doesn't work.
Sometimes it even doesn’t work in the short term: I downloaded this app last month and used it... once.