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If it's on your phone you can set timers for your apps so it boots you off after a set amount of time. There are probably programs for pc and mac as well.

Being inside all the time messes up all your natural rhythms. I try to do like my cat and sit in a sunbeam for like 20 minutes first thing in the morning. Does me wonders! If I do that I'm almost always super sleepy at bedtime.

Technology is your friend, as much as it feels like the enemy sometimes. Set timers and alarms to remind you to do things. I have a Pomodoro timer on my phone I use to try to be more productive during the day. I have 25 minutes of "work" and then a 5 minute break during which I get up and run around and irritate my husband and cat. Helps break up the day and let you get some energy out between focusing.

Another good one is <strong>Everyday</strong>, which you can use to build or break habits. I have one set where I turn off all my electronics at 9:30pm (I have an alarm that goes off at that time every day and I'm trying to condition myself to respond to it), brush my teeth, bathe, and lay down to read until I get sleepy. I try to have the lights off by 10:30 or 11. I've been doing that for like two weeks and I've been waking up naturally before my alarm (7:30am) for the first time in my life.

Also get some sleep, dude. Lack of sleep amplifies all your ADHD symptoms. I know it seems like your whole life will pass you by if you do, but sleep is literally the bedrock upon which all your health rests. Without it you'll crumble. Go to bed. Be kind to yourself.

So I got this new app a few weeks before the New Years called everyday.app . I don’t normally follow plans and schedules but this app is the only thing that helped me. It uses a visual streak system that forces you to complete something everyday. You’ll be very tempted not to break it. I’ve been able to read Quran everyday, workout consistently, and read 10 or more pages a day for a month now. I highly recommend you all try it out!

:D love it. FWIW, knowing what little I do about programming, it wouldn't be too hard to make a chrome extension that draws circles like this on Google Calendar when enabled. The trick what to use as a source for the data, though.

Also, there's a lovely and simple habit app called everyday.app that easily supports a similar use case.

GTD is ultimately a system. If you find it hard to stick with a system, it's not gonna work for you.

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I recommend you start by tweaking your habits via the X Effect. I use this app to track my habits: https://everyday.app/

Foundational ones would be:

1) Wake up at x AM every day

2) Read/ Take an online course for x minutes a day

3) Walk x minutes

Once you find you can stick to such a system for 3 weeks and experience first hand the benefits of building routines, I'd adventure into doing GTD style stuff. Things like

1) Empty Inbox

2) Do Weekly Review

3) Work on @ Context for 30 minutes

Will become 2nd nature.

Best of luck!

Yes. I normally have a list of goals and subdivide them into a list of habits that will help me reach such goal. For example I have as a goal "HEALTH + FITNESS" and then the habits are "eat a fruit", "do 50 pushups", "no sugar", "go to the gym", "100s plank", "drink 2L of water". The goal is something to look forward to imagine your better self while the habits are the real actionable achievable tasks I can execute on every day.

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Potentially shameless plug ahead so be advised! What I do is define the previously defined habits and goals together inside my little app https://everyday.app. I choose a different colour for goals and habits. Then, the idea is that only if I marked at least 1 of the subhabits, am I allowed to mark the "Goal". This leads to have streaks for subhabits separate from goals, but this makes it relatively easy to have a strong long goal streak (for example my goal HEALTH+ FITNESS is at 488 days right now). Funnily, this comes to represent that what matters is not really working on the ultimate goal, but on the individual little habits, the journey.

Heyo I'm working on something very similar, however its in beta right now. I can suggest everyday.app which is probably what you're looking for, or a google sheets calendar template which works too. Btw if you want reminders, goals and charts, you'll want a dedicated habit tracker app.

Early feedback of the watchOS version of https://everyday.app has been pretty positive so far! But since I'm looking to improve it and add more functionality to it I thought it'd be awesome to get some feedback from professionals! Thank you!!

Thank you! You can actually use that gradient in the free version! If you are on the web, then you can change the color by clicking on the little green dot on the left of your habit!

I do plan to offer 5 free habits as soon as I can afford it!

There's already a one-time purchase price for it. See https://everyday.app/pricing :)

I just downloaded everyday.app for this thanks to another commenter here. This is my first time trying goal tracking this way since most my my healthfitness/food goals are done on a weekly basis.

I use my own app (https://everyday.app)'s web extensions to have my board of goals on the background of my web browser every time I open a new tab. This way I see my habits and the goals I want to pursue several times a day making it easier to be on the top of my mind. You can find the web extensions at https://everyday.app/devices

Hope it helps! :)

Just to be fully transparent about this, the images are from the app I've been working for a few years now https://everyday.app! If someone's annoyed by this please let me know!

This is my best board ever https://app.everyday.app/2/1 :P

I kinda miss the calendar view I used on paper though, I hope I can bring it into the app soon! But the yearly view really puts things in perspective. Like how I clearly broke my reading habit because of the beach hehe

I myself use https://everyday.app to track my habits. It has a web extension where you see your yearly progress every time you open a new tab, so it's awesome to keep you focused and motivated! My challenges for this year are to read 40 books, meet at least a 1000 people, do more than 15000 pushups and manage to get to the gym every day for at least 30min.

Sure! It's https://everyday.app (Disclaimer: I'm the developer) It helps you form new habits by building strong streaks! It's important because you need to focus on the daily goal instead of the overall goal. I.e instead of committing to read 40 books a year (which doesn't help you in any way) it's better to commit to read X pages every day. If you manage to do that you end up reading way beyond that amount. This example is applicable to any sort of goal really!

Nothing to apologize about! I do offer a lifetime license you can find at https://everyday.app/pricing (just sharing in case you missed it). I've explained some of the reasons on the pricing in another answer in case you want to understand the reasoning behind the subscription a bit better (so that I don't come out as a greedy bastard). In any case, if the current free version isn't enough for you, don't let this derail you from tracking your habits, even if it's on paper!

Yeah, sorry, it's easy to overlook if you are not using the web version. You can find the details here https://everyday.app/pricing . It's only web because of point of sales policies (google/apple taking 30% cuts). Plus if I put that offer on mobile, people would kill me with bad reviews (been there...).

The idea of a lifetime license per version is interesting. It's like a hybrid. I am not sure how "handleable" would that be with web apps and mobile apps, like it's not a specific piece of product that's closed and distributed, but I'm sure it can be pulled off. I'll check those examples, thank you!

Taking this little concept to B2B is always on the horizont, but right now it's fairly unrealistic. It'd actually make sense to reuse most of the code for a separate product with different copy, etc. I do believe there's a strong opportunity for this sort of apps in team management but not in the traditional way. I don't want this app to land in businesses for managers to micromanage and ruin people's lives. It's not the way to go imho. I do see much more future in company culture building. Yes, I know it might sound marketingy, but it's not the same thing with a different cover, it's a different way of understanding a tool that does the very same. I'm not sure I managed to convey my point here?

Ofc there's a lot more money in there but money isn't really my goal here (beyond earning enough for me not to have to worry too much about the prices of food in the supermarket). I really want to build a tool to empower people and I think universalizing habit tracker is a good way to start!

It should be available on the japanese app store (I'm afraid I haven't translated it yet though), have you tried searching "everyday habit tracker"? As a last resource I'd try using the link to the appstore on https://everyday.app . If you cannot find it let me know!

I'm 31. Soon it's going to be 20 years since I've messed with webs in one way or another. So I can totally relate. I think however, that I got to that conclusion far earlier, which has crippled my motivation to excel at in the last years. Let me rewrite, I've known for quite some time that this wasn't the rat race I wanted to be in forever. For me coding and web tech were just tools to express my creativity and create valuable things, so I guess I've always been more the "product" type of person with enough curiosity to learn whatever is necessary to bring those product ideas to life.

I don't have an answer for you but a suggestion. I think it's the obvious one. A couple of years ago I started putting side hours to start my little business (https://everyday.app) (see it as proof of my mediocrity as a web developer) until recently I could start working on it full-time. This has changed quite a few things for me, because code isn't the end but the means. I don't feel that trapped in the rat race anymore because I don't care so much (still a little bit tho) about following last standards but about my product providing enough value that users actually write me thoughtful emails thanking me. So my suggestion is, you go the skills, think for yourself and apply them to something that actually gives you purpose career-wise.

I loved the digital Sisyphus quote, I'll probably clone it in the future ;)

The app is called everyday, you can find it on https://everyday.app . Just know I'm the developer behind it so feel free to get in touch any time for any feedback! I use it for every habit I am trying to form :)

There's always a first day, maybe you get a little bit of extra motivation with the little sideproject I'm working on r/https://everyday.app :P The first days are always the toughest, so keep strong and try to replace the habit of smoking by something else (like eat a walnut or do 5 pushups every time you think of smoking one!)