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Excellent advice, can I just add that there's an app called Habitica where you can input your daily tasks and habits (or weekly/monthly/however many times you want to do whatever task) and it plays like a little RPG gamifying your tasks into monsters to defeat: https://habitica.com/static/features it's a really fun way of motivating yourself to do the things that feel like a huge chore.

If you like the dynamic of "kill the laundry monster every morning", give Habitica a try. It gamifies to-do lists, is free to play, helps this SAHD keep track of the various work that needs to be done (both the one-offs and the recurring items), and makes it all a bit more fun. Particularly good for those "I don't want to clean the mirrors, but I'm so close to leveling up, I'll get it done" motivations.

The Android app is a bit wanting, but folks speak well of the iOS version. I just leave a tab open to it.

—A level 48 rogue ☺

I admit, I'm an older student and had rituals long before grad school. Routine has been a part of my life for a long time.

1. I get up, take a shower, and get dressed. Then I wake the kids and I make a 4 cup pot of drip coffee every morning. It's cheaper and helps me regulate my intake down to only that coffee.

2. Once I send the kids off to their respective schools, I drive in to mine.

3. At 8am I either go attend a class or go read a new paper until it is time for class. In short mornings are for reading and doing homework. Also, I use Mendeley and file each paper by catagory as I read it.

4. Lunch is social. My friends and I get together to talk and laugh whether we packed our lunches or headed out to eat.

5. Afternoons are for research. My afternoons can be highly variable, but with the kids there is a regular schedule of picking them up and doing their stuff in the evenings.

6. Go to bed before 11 pm.

I've found Habitica to be helpful for keeping track of to do lists and routine things.

If you have trouble with your to-dos and shit, I can highly reccommend habitica. Its basically a Role Play Game where you have to complete To Do's and Dailies and get rewarded with XP. You can group up, fight monsters and do lots more. I guess its not for everyone but you should check it out

I've never tried it and I have no idea how good it is, but there's actually an app out there to "gamify" your life.

https://habitica.com/

Here's a blurb from the site:

>First, you'll set up tasks that you want to do in your everyday life. Then, as you complete the tasks in real life and check them off, you'll earn Experience and Gold. Gold is used to buy equipment and some items, as well as custom rewards. Experience causes your character to level up and unlock content such as pets, skills, and quests! For more detail, check out a step-by-step overview of the game

It sounds like a fun concept, but I've never been much of a gamer. However, if it's something that works well with your brain, it might be worth looking into.

This is literally the theory behind Habitica.

I really encourage my students to use this app or one like it because it combines tracking tasks (homework, housework, errands, personal goals, etc) with gamification and builds in positive reinforcement for tasks that often feel unrewarding.

Habitica - Organize your life as an RPG. Beyond the (fun, well-done) gimmick, it actually is a very good stress-reducing organizational tool that I use to balance out parenthood/marriage/career. It also has a pretty friendly community.

Flashcardia - (shameless plug) A memorization tool, similar to Anki or Mnemosyne, but with a different algorithm. Still in beta and poison on cell phones, but a really great tool for language learning or any other memorization.

Sounds a bit like Habitica, formerly Habit RPG.

I'm also a geek and gaming industry professional so I've thought about this a lot. From a weight loss perspective, I think you should consider making rewards and treats something other than food. It's generally considered a better idea to make your rewards non-food related.

The problem with that is that not everyone likes the same stuff or can afford the same things. You could have "massage day" as a treat but could they afford it? Would they be interested?

My (potential) solution to this is to make the rewards in-game only. Maybe unlock some character customization options, or new items they can have (for example: a cute "spa day" icon in their inventory/timeline). Another thing that will work for gamers is a simple achievement system. Unlocking achievements for performing an action once, 10x, 50x, 100x, 500x ALWAYS works. It's funny how we'll go out of our way to unlock the silliest achievements.

For the people who like this approach and apps-for-everything, there's https://habitica.com. It has some habit tracking and basic to-do list options. You get gold when you finish your tasks and you can collect items, pets and mounts. Rewards can be defined by the user as well.

As said in the comments below, there are existing apps for quitting smoking, snoring etc. so there does appear to be a market for these kinds of apps.

To validate the concept you need to first consider:

• What exactly is the problem that you're trying to solve?
  • ie. When quitting sugar we might be trying to improving our diet, for diabetics, getting healthy, getting fit, losing weight etc.
  • You might have a different interface depending on a specific problem that you're solving, so how do you make a general/specific interface for changing a habit?
  • Do you want to solve for any habit or a specific kind of habit that a certain audience might face?
• How do people currently track their habits?
  • What competitors (direct & indirect) out there exist?
    • (Direct) Habitica is a similar concept with 4M users - https://habitica.com/static/home
    • (Indirect) Many use checklists, journals
  • How big is the market?
    • How many books, videos, podcasts are created on task management (bazillions)
    • What is the overall install base for software to solve these issues?
    • How big is the market for your specific audience?
  • What is missing?
    • What do people complain about on existing solutions? - (look at their bad reviews to see if there are any gaps in the product)
    • What need is unmet?
• Who is the customer?
  • Is it someone of a similar age to you, a millennial like me, your parents age, grandparents, etc?
  • What likes, interests, personality, ability with tech do they have?
  • Where would they find out about your product?

You could start playing https://habitica.com/static/home

It's an RPG for your life. You'll add habits and to-dos and receive gold and experience for completing them. Then, you can upgrade your character, buy equipment, and fight bosses. You can also add real-life rewards and then reward yourself once you have collected enough gold and bought them.

It's most fun if you start to play with your friends.

Thanks, this looks interesting. Might give it a go. I've been surfing Reddit and procrastinating rather than being productive lately.

Links for the lazy:

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What you're talking about is the core concept of Habitica, a gamified habit manager that basically aims to let you set dailies, tasks, etc in order to drive you forward.

Yes, it's on Android and iOS. I use it on my desktop though. They also changed the name from HabitRPG to Habitica. Link: https://habitica.com/static/home

It's basically a way of listing your goals, and then leveling up/rewarding yourself when you meet those goals. Very nifty, and you can have friends and join guilds and fight through quests together by taking care of your chores.

I had to take the perfect setup...

But on subject I'll vote for HabbitRPG. Totally cute pixel graphics theme. Active development. Android/iOS app...

You may enjoy the Habitica app, https://habitica.com/static/front

It's like an RPG for daily life chores and could be applied to lifting too!

Great job on your successes, keep up the hard work man!

There's many ways to go about it. Atomic Habits (highly recommended on Reddit) is a good read that answers this question thoroughly, or you could start with this article: https://jamesclear.com/three-steps-habit-change.

I'm doing much better with my weekly reviews this year. For me, it was about accountability. I have a friend ask me whether I did my weekly review. I also use an app (Habitica) to track my success. I like the app because it will record a miss automatically, meaning I can't just "forget" to write down I missed that week. Good luck!

Structure is always a good thing.

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Like u/spookybirb said, a sticker chart works wonders! Get construction paper, glitter, etc, and sit down with your Little and make it a project that you both work on. Maybe have a chore list that shows the value (in stickers) for each one completed. maybe make a tier list of different rewards and their cost in stickers.

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You can also use Habitica.com if your Little is big into gaming. It is a habit/chore/to-do list that plays out like an RPG game. PM me if you need some help.

Look into Habatica. You can put your to do list (both daily and big projects) into the game, and level up your character by completing items (you can even break the really big projects into steps). You can go on boss raids with other players, and you deal damage by completing your tasks. He can join a guild. And it can give him a sense of progress because his character will progress too.

There is a great app/website for this. It's called Habitica.

>Habitica is a video game to help you improve real life habits. It "gamifies" your life by turning all your tasks (habits, dailies, and to-dos) into little monsters you have to conquer. The better you are at this, the more you progress in the game. If you slip up in life, your character starts backsliding in the game.

I LOVE video games, and the notion of turning the smallest accomplishments into some sort of RPG game was really a great inspiration for me. I used to plan a little weight-loss journey, with bosses to defeat (like Doom-plateau :) and offered myself little rewards for reaching so and so goal.

If your goals are simple and practical, you can still enter them in there and make them fun without really changing them, just adding a little fantasy twist.

Give it a try, maybe you'll like it! :D

Not quite on your list of requests, but I love Habitica from a mental health perspective. It's gamification of good habits helps me keep all my good habits & to-do's in line and reward myself for things like meditating, exercising, or healthy eating, which in turn helps me keep depressive episodes and anxiety away.

Check out Habitica it's a task list structured like a RPG. You can fight monsters, make parties and level up from carrying out your objectives.

I've been using it to get through the "bumpy" phase of starting new habits. And as a general to-do list.

I don't know if you've heard of the app Habitica, but it's a way to gamify the way you build good habits and break bad habits (It also has a to-do list built in).

Calculate your TDEE using this calculator. This will give you how many calories you can eat to maintain your current weight. Take a few hundred off of this.

Download MyFitnessPal. Set up your targets. Track things for a week and get an idea about what kind of things you're eating and how much they contribute to breaking your targets. You will be surprised at how caloric some things are. Often you can lose weight by doing a few simple things like avoiding alcohol, soft drink, and watching your portion size.

Exercise to adjust your calories in calories out balance. Go for a walk at lunch. Download Google Fit and set a target there.

Last tip is to gamify your targets. It's easy to give up, but you can trick your mind into enjoying the unfun things. Habitca and Fitocracy might be good. I've used the latter and it's fun! You can add friends and compete against them too.

BE STRONG! Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret! YOU CAN DO IT! I BELIEVE IN YOU!

In a more fun and nerdy way. Play Habit RPG! It's a task website organizer thing BUT you get XP and gold for doing tasks. Then you get to spend that on stuff and things.

I'm a lvl 16 Rogue riding a Giant panda!

It's like any other task tracker but I feel more compelled to do it because if I don't complete my tasks, I lose health and levels. And I don't want to lose my panda!

One of the tricks I've learned is that once you have a habit to do something every day, it's easier to add things onto it. I just keep tacking things onto my before-bed ritual, cause that's the only reliable thing I have.

You can also use habitica.com. If you can build a daily habit to check it every day, then you can add habits there and get a daily reminder to do them. Also, you'll 'die' and lose levels if you don't do your dailies. I also started using Complice.co for daily prioritiation and weekly/monthly reviews.

Don't try to add more than one habit at a time, and they need something like a month to fully harden. If you're really organized, pick a habit to build every month.

Maybe a gamification app like Habitica would help give some more value to your personal deadlines. I used to use it quite a while back for different things, I think it's quite cool.

I started using Habitica (a productivity tool based on gamification) a few weeks ago and I'm seeing massive improvements in terms of productivity and building habits. It is a bit embarrassing to admit that I am more motivated by leveling up a pixelated character than improving myself but I can live with it as long as the results are there.

I found that for me the most important feature is that whenever you fail to complete a daily goal, the other people you are partied up with lose health, in addition to a message being automatically published in the party chat saying that you damaged everyone else. This creates an additional motive for completing tasks by creating a fear of public embarrassment (and letting down teammates), which I think is very hard to replicate in real life. Highly recommend everyone to give it a try.

I don't know the full answer, but he's obviously able to focus and obsess over something, even if it's not necessarily productive.

I did read about something which might be useful, not sure if it will help or not, but figured if you're desperate, worth checking out:

https://habitica.com/static/front

Habitica is a video game to help you improve real life habits. It "gamifies" your life by turning all your tasks (habits, dailies, and to-dos) into little monsters you have to conquer. The better you are at this, the more you progress in the game. If you slip up in life, your character starts backsliding in the game.

I don't think it will work for everyone, but it might be a way to get your kid to be able to tap into the real world using a familiar interface for him.

I do wish you the best of luck with this though. Hopefully it turns out well and in a year, you're making a post about how great it all went.

A little more complicated, but I track mine in Habitica, which is essentially a life-gamification system. There's an app as well as the desktop site. You can create habits, dailies, and to-dos, and you earn in-game rewards when you check things off. I have "no-buy" listed as a daily so it keeps track of how many days in a row I've checked it off (47 so far!). You can also suspend dailies (I suspended mine for a day when making a planned practical purchase) and then un-suspend and resume your streak the next day.

I like it because you can team up with people and then if you slip up other people get penalized too - I'm using it with my boyfriend and somehow the threat of him being penalized in any way because I mess up, even if it's a meaningless virtual penalty, is somehow more motivating to me than any personal repercussions.

This is going to sound crazy, but my husband really started helping out after downloading an app called Habitica (formerly Habit RPG). its an app on his phone where he makes a list of tasks he needs to complete and for every task he gets xx number of coins. As he completes tasks he gets points to buy expansions and stuff like that. the change in him has been mind blowing. Of course this wont work for everyone, it helps if he's a bit of a nerd :)

This is normal for an ADHD partner. I have ADHD and was long distance with my partner for a few years before I moved to live with her. Something I did to help me was adding 'text partner' to my to-do list (I use habitica for to-dos and habits, so I added this to my 'dailies').

If I were in your situation I would bring up on a call that you would like to talk/text more frequently. If he's open to that then you can proceed by asking if there's a way to make that easier for him, such as what I did in setting up a reminder for myself, or something more specific that works for you as a couple.

Fair, there's a lot of promo pop-ups: seasonals, quest-combos, etc. There should be a setting; I don't think there is, I poked around some. But one doesn't simply TURN OFF BAILEY! She's the sweetest person I've ever met (she's a real person - I've met her)! She has her own appreciation guild. Embrace the Bailey.

Habitica can be a great motivation for game-focused people. You set it up so things can be checked off daily or weekly or monthly and you get points for everything you get done, and bonus for streaks (doing all your daily stuff every day for a week etc).

Qui est sur Habitica ? (anciennement appelé HabitRPG)

Je cherche une équipe ou une guilde.

C'est une gamification de la vie réelle, vous customisez vos tâches, et une fois effectuées, elles rapportent de l'xp et de l'or.

https://habitica.com/

I'm gonna jump in to love on /r/90daysgoal, related to starting each day as a blank slate. That's one of the thing I like about posting in the daily goal thread over there. Yesterday doesn't matter- I'm only focusing on today, and what I'm going to do today. It really had helped me break that habit of beating myself up for less-than-victorious days.

Even if you don't join that specific sub, maybe do a daily goal list each morning in a journal or something. Or something like Habitica where you can tick off daily goals and "yup, I totally nailed that calorie budget today" kind of things. It resets overnight, and your new daily goals are refreshed.

hi, i'm a college student also struggling with being productive (and depression).

• have you tried the pomodoro technique? it's a method of working where you pick a task, eliminate all distractions, and work on that task for 25 minutes. if you remember that you have to do something else, just write it down and continue working on your task. after 25 minutes, take a 5 minute pause. one period of 25 minutes is called a pomodoro. after each pomodoro you take a 5 minute pause, and after 4 pomodoros you take a 15 minute pause. this technique really helped me become more productive.

• as u/Memories_of_You said, developing a morning routine is great. mine consists of practicing yoga and mindfulness meditation.

• perhaps you should get organized? there's a great book on organizing/productivity called Getting Things Done, i've read it and now i'm much better organized (i'm using Evernote on my laptop and smartphone).

• if you're into games, you can try some other apps like Habitica that turn your life into a game by rewarding you for doing tasks

• you can also subscribe to r/GetStudying

I used HabitRPG back in the day it was called that, and really really liked it. Both the RPG and social elements were great, and it kept me going for ~6 months before I fell off.

Looking at Habiticia, it looks really neat, but I would never use it today considering their privacy policy, especially 3.-9.

It's open source though, so if you know how to, or have a friend that does, you might be able to set up your own server with it :)

Counting calories is definitely the way to go. I went from 185 to 145 using a fitness tracking app (LoseIt!) on my phone. It really is the most effective way I've found to lose weight and keep it off.

> Just like budgeting money, budgeting calories helps you realize just how many wasteful calories you consume.

So, so true. I once stupidly ordered french fries at a baseball game without looking at the calories beforehand. After I had already eaten them, I noticed on the sign that the (size: small) order or fries that I ordered contained almost 800(!!!) calories. It totally busted my budget that day, but I learned a valuable lesson. Never again, french fries!

The other thing I do in conjunction with counting calories that really has been helping is playing Habitica. I love video games, so this is a really effective form of motivation for me. Plus, it's free (though I like it so much I have donated to the devs). You can set it so you get experience points every time you exercise, or log a meal into your phone. You can even give yourself a bonus if you don't go over your daily calorie goal. It makes getting in shape fun! The weight almost magically disappears.

> Found a new way to get your shit even-more together?

Is anyone here already using Habitica? (Tagline: "Your life, the roleplaying game".) I stumbled across it this past week, and it looks promising. But I haven't signed up yet, so 1) I'm not going to plug it directly :P, and 2) usecases from real-world users wouldn't hurt.

This is going to sound like an ad, but I promise it isn't. The app / website is free, and I'm not affiliated in any way.

Tried Habitica? . It's a to do list that's been turned into a vintage video game. Basically, you tell it what you need to get done, as well as the habits that you want to learn, and it rewards you with free dopamine by giving you coins and XP for doing them. You can find items, pets and dress up your avatar by completing your IRL tasks, too.

No, it has no way of checking up whether you've actually done the things or not, but since you really get nothing out of it there's no reason to cheat.

The trap here (which I still fall into sometimes) is assuming that you have to *want* to do something before you do something. But we don't. Seek to either 1) get curious about the thing you're putting off and try to prove to yourself that you really don't like it or, if you already know that you don't like something 2) find yourself a means of external accountability (i.e., pressure). If you've got friends or family you feel comfortable asking, then ask them to be your accountability partner. Websites like StickK or beeminder or Habitica can also work for this purpose.

edit: all that said, I wish you luck. Know that I was in a similar boat in high school and having friends to study with helped tremendously to stay on track. I made it through and I believe that you can too.

It's a toys-to-life game that swapped the toys for DLC. I am a sucker for most things Ubisoft and while I have it on the switch and PC I never really got more than a few hours into it. It's not bad. I worked on the StarFox content for the switch, but the lack 32:9 support ended my PC gameplay.

Is it repetitive, yea, that's Ubisoft's signature. That's not hate - it's the reason I play most of their games. I like hide and seek and completing checklists interrupting cutscenes.

But if you don't find Habitica entertaining you probably aren't going to be preordering the next DLC pack.

Maybe you could try an app called habitica?

The different options — habits, dalies, and to do's — really helped me with not forgetting dinner or to brush my teeth for example. Some times I still do forget, but it is much better now. Other apps did not work for me, and maybe this one will not work for you either, but I think it is worth a try. (:

My life right now is taken up by my dissertation, and whatever imaginings I can get down to keep myself sane. It's almost impossible for me to keep a set schedule given the unpredictability of emails, erratic tutoring schedules, public transport, etc. So instead, I've given myself immutable tasks:

4 hours of work on my dissertation every day. This can be reading, but at least half this time must be writing.

30 minutes minimum writing a creative project. The day isn't allowed to end until I've done this; ideally I'll have banked some time and can spend more than 30 min on it.

As for keeping myself accountable, I use apps like Forest and Habitica to keep my reward-centers functional (though admittedly Forest runs on guilt...) If you want to combine goal-keeping with mental health (and hell, who doesn't?), I can't recommend Pacifica enough-- it's a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy app that might just help you dig down into the things that are keeping you from setting and meeting your writing goals in the first place, if you let it.

Also, an afterthought, a mantra they gave us when I did a dissertation boot-camp: "You don't have time to write. You steal it."

Look at Habitica as a way to get yourself in to mindful habits and accomplishing tasks. Start off easy. Don't go wild and make 10 must do items. If you don't do the daily tasks, then your character gets docked health points. You can also set longer goals, that can be accomplished whenever. Just make the goals small and obtainable.

https://habitica.com/static/home

A few things I find useful:

• Google Calendar
• Momentum (Browser Extension for Chrome): https://momentumdash.com/
• Habitica (To-Do List RPG website): https://habitica.com/
• Monthly finance tracking/logging: On the first of each month, I dedicate 30 minutes to an hour going over the previous month's bank accounts and finance statements. I log income, expenses, changes in investments/net worth, credit score, etc. in a spreadsheet, and use this to make sure the financial situation is on-track. This is also the day when I pay any bills which aren't set to auto-pay. I've found this to be very useful, personally.

I had this same issue (hell, in many areas, I still do). Gamification helps a lot.

Check out Habitica. There are other forms of it if RPGs aren't your thing, but I've found it helps me.

I think you're awesome for pulling yourself out of that hole. It takes strength to not give in when everyone around you is saying the same thing. Good job, man.

In regards to life advice, one thing that has really influenced me is No More Zero Days (the first comment is the main outline of what that means). I found it through Habitica, which is also something that helped me, since it uses gamification. No More Zero Days can be something as little as going for a five minute walk or reading one page or a book, but as long as you didn't have a zero day, you accomplished something. And that is a good feeling.

Good luck. If you end up getting Habitica, you should friend me! =)

I find Habitica just great for this kind of things. You should check it out. You can just put all the things you want to do daily under "dailies". It's pretty easy and if you want some help check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxKm7tSL6I

I started using https://habitica.com/ to resolve this quandary. Felt like I wasn't getting anything done otherwise. Not even really using the game aspect: it's just nicer than squashing Google Keep notes.

Honestly, you should not even begin with diet, you should just begin with general discipline.

I highly recommend Habitica (get the iOS/Android app). Start with a few daily/weekly tasks: make bed, wash face at night, go grocery shopping. Once you are able to do these sorts of things consistently, start incorporating things like "eat three servings of vegetables", "overcome a craving", etc.

Once you are confident in the little things, you just keep ramping up. Plus the app gives you pets and gold when you accomplish things lol.

I've tried FlyLady, she has good ideas. To keep me implementing though, I like habitica.com. You put in your tasks, your priorities, and your frequency, and then you can check them off as your day goes on.

It's all wrapped up in an RPG style reward system, which I like, but I often pause that aspect and just use it as a daily checklist.

I do get the impression that you're not averse to structure, but you could use some external motivation. If you like gamifying things, then https://habitica.com might be fun. It uses a reward system to help you to reinforce good habits. Other than that, setting some real life challenges could turn out to be very rewarding as well. Eg, save up $10k, then treat yourself on a vacation for $3k and put the rest in long term savings.

I've had good results using Habitica. It's like an RPG where you get XP for keeping to your to-do list. When you join a party, everyone will know if you're slacking, so you're kept somewhat accountable.

You may or may not be aware, but there are sites that attempt something like this. Habitica and Level Up Life are two such sites. I've never used them (ironically couldn't stay motivated to create account/make updates) but I love the idea. I think there are some apps for this, as well.

But yeah if my life had an EXP bar I'd never want for motivation again, I'm a damn number junkie.

You're welcome to join my party, though I'm mid-quest against more powerful monsters which might damage your character more than a lower-level quest. It looks like I'd need your user ID (NOT YOUR API TOKEN) to add you to my party, if you want to join in.

Oh boy do I have the app for you. HabitRPG! You start off a lowly level 1 peasant in Habitica and set up daily tasks, quests and goals for yourself to do. After clearing every daily task (flossing your teeth, going to the gym, sending out job applications, etc), you mark it on the game and you get EXP. If you fail to do a daily task once, you lose health. If you die you lose a level! Harder things to do can be labelled as quests and those bring in the big EXP and gold. Things like finishing a big project for school or getting a job are quests. You mark the importance and toughness of the quest and get rewarded based on that. With your levels and gold you can buy your little guy new clothes, choose skills and paths to follow (archer, warrior, mage), buy health potions, weapons. It's really neat!

The feature to hide the header bar is under Settings -> Site (https://habitica.com/#/options/settings/settings ). There's "Show header" that, if you untick it, does that same thing as your CSS code, and "Sticky header" that controls whether the header is fixed to the top of the viewport or not.

It sounds like the interface of Duolingo is what really works for you, which I totally understand. If you need gamification or streaks etc., you should try pairing habit building apps with non-Duolingo resources-. There's a lot out there, https://habitica.com/ might be a good start.

Habitica has most of the parts of this idea – it may be close enough for you. It’s a mobile app that lets you define tasks and how many points they are worth. Separately, the app has a customizable store where you can define the items for sale and how many points they cost. In your case, you could define a custom reward “$20”.

The difference from your idea is that Habitica’s rewards store doesn’t fulfill the reward by itself. When you buy a reward using your earned points, the app just gives you permission to give yourself the reward. So to implement your idea, you might create a separate bank account marked “future rewards” and put money there in advance. Then, when you buy your store’s custom reward “$20”, you might log into your bank’s website and move $20 of that money into your checking account.

In addition to motivating you by earning points in your custom store, Habitica has some RPG-themed features where “leveling up” by completing tasks earns you in-app cosmetic items for your character. The app also has in-app purchases that let you pay real money to buy those items instead. I never felt motivated by those cosmetic items, personally, but I’m sure some people would be.

Habitica really helped me create a self-care routine (it helped me finally build the habit of brushing my teeth twice a day, when for years I struggled to do it even once every few days...). I don't use it anymore, but I really liked that you have three types of goals: one-time to-dos (e.g. fill in university registration paperwork), regular to-dos (called dailies, but you can set whatever frequency you want, e.g. get rid of trash every three days) and habits (e.g. drink a glass of water). You get incentive by seeing the colour of the goals move to green, by getting experience to do level your character up and do quests, and by collecting eggs to hatch into pets. Playing with a friend really helped too, even if they have no info on what your goals are or if you're completing them, you can do quests together.

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On the topic of podcasts/music, I also use it to time tasks I feel are too much. Rather than looking at my watch every five seconds, I know that my walk/cleaning session/whatever will be over when the podcast is. It gives me a sense of time passing.

Im having some decent success using Habitica it offers just enough instant gratification to keep me excited about cleaning and then I break up the tasks over the week instead of having just one big day for cleaning. Breaking up the tasks makes them feel more manageable and you also gain additional points and items from checking off separate tasks. I've never been the type to be able to maintain cleanliness and I always just deep cleaned after leaving it for far too long but I've had a pretty successful January with this at least

Habitica. My favourite to-do list app that I've tried! It also exists as a website, which is how I normally use it because I like seeing it on a bigger screen with everything clearly laid out. But works great as a phone app as well!

I do also diligently use Google Calendar so I can visualize my time - that helps a lot. BUT I can't schedule everything or I feel too restricted and frustrated. so I prefer to just put in the things that aren't flexible, like work and appointments, and leave the rest blank.

And though not specifically a to-do/task app, I use the Forest app to try and stick to a task once I've started, helps with distractions!

Bro, i was there.

I now use habitica.com and religiously check off my dailies.

Dailies build habits. You also need a schedule where you do * nothing * but your designated task. Turn off TVs.

Start small. Use a Pomodoro Timer and just make it through one.

Chronic illness is possibly the best thing that's happened to me, as far as my Si goes. I have very limited energy, so structure is a must if I want to get anything done. My routines are essential to staying happy and productive.

Tools I use:

• Habitica (https://habitica.com/) is a gamified productivity app that offers in-game and IRL incentives for accomplishing your real-life tasks. It's shiny and fun, and you can have pets and costumes.

• An hourly planner helps me make a rough outline of every day. If I don't assign times to the things I need to get done, I tend to a) get overwhelmed or b) procrastinate.

Every morning—even if I'm in pain or I don't have anywhere to go—I get up, get dressed, and make my bed. Sometimes it's difficult... but if I can do my basic morning routine, it gives me momentum to get other things done, too.

I do deep breathing for ten minutes, three times a day (ideally), to engage my parasympathetic nervous system. It's mainly to manage my chronic pain, but it also helps with emotional and mental balance.

Some days, I fail at this and spend the day in my pajamas feeling sick and sorry for myself. But those days are becoming less and less frequent as I become more and more consistent with my routines. :)

Thanks for asking about this, OP! It's a conversation worth having.

I second a lot of what others have said. The fanfiction isn't the problem, it's the addictive or compulsive behavior.

I personally don't think it's a big deal if you're reading fanfiction instead of reading published fiction or watching movies - fanfiction is my primary form of entertainment, too, and it has the advantage of being free! It also sounds like you've discovered fanfiction very recently, so you're probably still in the first flush of enthusiasm, and it may well be that your reading habits will settle down naturally over time. I've been reading fanfiction for more than 12 years and during that time there have been periods when I've read millions of words of fic in a single week and other periods when I've read just a handful of fics in the course of an entire year. I've been in my current primary fandom for more than two years and am at a stage where I typically read about 1 long fic or 3-4 shorter fics per week, which is enough to give me plenty of enjoyment but not enough to interfere with my responsibilities.

That said, it is important for you to study and socialize and if fanfiction is interfering with those activities than you need to limit your consumption of it so it doesn't.

/r/nosurf has a bunch of information about different tools that you can use to limit your access to certain websites or the internet in general.

If you enjoy gaming, using a website like Habitca to keep track of your to-do list and assigning fanfiction as a reward when you've accomplished a certain number of tasks might be another idea worth looking into.

Good luck!! If it works, there's this website: https://habitica.com that gives you an rpg character and your 'quests' are the chores/homework/things you need to do and you level up for completing them c:

If you like games you can gamify your productivity. Give yourself a reward for the tasks that you do, keep score of your activities. There are even sites like Habitica to help you make a game out of it.

If you're writing, do not write for 8 hours straight. Set aside a period of time that you will write, but give yourself some breaks in that time. Keep it short to start and gradually increase it. Then reward yourself after with an activity you feel pleasure from too that changes your pace.

Hi, Team Asteroid!

My name is Kate, and I'm 24 years old, living in Wichita, KS but originally from Kentucky. I'm a registered nurse, but I recently decided to take time off from working to focus full-time on improving my physical and mental health. I'm 5'0" and about 200 pounds at the moment. I've been overweight my entire life, and I gained about 50 pounds fairly recently, so I'm at my highest weight ever. For this Challenge, I'm hoping to drop at least 15 pounds. It'll be a kick-start to a long weight loss journey ahead of me.

I find that Habitica.com has been helping me stay accountable more than anything, and I made a guild for Team Asteroid if anyone wants to join! It's a seriously awesome, supportive community. And it gives healthy habits an incentive. I love it!

It's old, but I loved playing Jones in the fast lane back when I was in elementary school. I'd like to think in the abstract sense it helped me learn the importance of education, time management, balancing spending vs. saving, and the importance of having a refrigerator full of food.

Or try Habitica and turn your real life and goals into a RPG (I got my PhD on my way to a level 57 Mage!).

Not sure if it would interest you or be helpful at all, but there's this app called habitica and it's basically a habit building/productivity app but it turns it into a game. Might not be of any use to you but I figured it was worth mentioning! Even if it's just to get you started, it's a pretty fun way of keeping motivated if you like gaming :)

> there aren't accomplishment markers the same way that other tasks have.

Sure there are.

1. Wrote my first sentence.
2. Wrote my first paragraph.
3. Had a conversation in said language.
4. Read a book in said language.

And if you really need to have achievement points for your tasks, there are websites/apps like https://habitica.com that do just that.

Have you heard of habitica? I've been using it as a to-do list for while and it's helped me break through a similar state of paralysis. There's less of an incentive to give up because even when I can't do everything on my list, I still get points for what I do manage to do, so it feels like every little thing counts for something. I'd recommend it.

But yeah, start by setting simple goals and build up gradually so it's not too overwhelming.

I use Google docs to allow me to work from anywhere, even my phone.

For motivation. I found this gem of a tool https://habitica.com/. its exactly the kind of horse and carrot nonsense to keep me working on something each day, even if its just for a few minutes.

Other than that. I checklist everything to write up later. I've heard some people use voice recorders but that seems a bit creepy to do at work.

This is the idea behind Habitica (formally HabitRPG), a to-do app where you level up your character using real life tasks. Been using it for 2+ years, love it, one of the only tabs permanently open for me.

Also, congrats OP! Off to see if there's any LARP groups near me.

add it on to an existing habit (eg commute, brushing your teeth, walking the fish)

give yourself a tiny reward (eg snack) after finishing Anki

habit tracker. https://habitica.com/ gamifies your habits

In addition to other things (medication, etc.) could you try gamifying your routine? Maybe something like Habitica could put some fun structure around brushing teeth, changing clothes, etc.?

Als je motivatie geld besparen is dan zou ik uitrekenen hoeveel je normaliter kwijt bent aan besteld eten, en hoeveel dat zou kunnen zijn als je zelf eten zou bereiden en weekboodschappen zou doen (door slim te shoppen kan je ook nog eens veel geld besparen).

Daarnaast zou ik er even tijd in stoppen om een paar simpele gerechten uit je hoofd te leren. Er zijn genoeg dingen die je in 15 tot 30 minuten kan maken. Bijv: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/books/jamies-15-minute-meals/

Maar uiteindelijk ben je zelf degene die er voor moet zorgen dat je "gewoon" geen eten meer besteld. Misschien helpt iets als Habitica je om je gemotiveerd te houden.

Als er een life skill is die super waardevol is dan is het wel koken, dus misschien kan je toch proberen het leuk te maken voor jezelf.

The way we teach money to my kids and how to earn one is using habitica wherein the players are the entire household and us the parents setting tasks and milestones. The more tasks they accomplished and we parents auditing their work, the more points they get.

Speaking of points I try to incorporate the meaning of Crypto-currency by making my own habitica point to Peso exchange. For transparency within the household, the pips are depending on my earnings on day-trading. So the higher the available balance, everyone in the household is happy. When I make a withdrawal to pay monthly household payables, everyone is discouraged to exchanged at a lower rate.

This has been working for us for almost two years. And the kids completing tasks for their ML, Blizzard, Steam, etc.

Yep, you get one Mystic Hourglass for every three consecutive subscription months.

https://habitica.fandom.com/wiki/Mystic_Hourglass

> A Mystic Hourglass is a special item given to subscribers who maintain a three-month consecutive subscription.

I think you should spend Mystic Hourglasses if you see something in the Time Traveler's shop. Those items are only one hourglass, so stocking up on them doesn't do a ton.

First of all:

• how did this start? Any events in your life? How was your life before?
• Have you been checked up recently by a Dr?
• Do you get enough sleep, water, exercise, food?
• Substance use? (including coffee, but I'm more thinking weed, alcohol, etc.)

Studying: what are you studying for? If it's a lot of memorization I guess an SRS would be best, but it's a bit late for that (so maybe try it for the next class). For you right now :

• make some cases up that cover the topics in the chapters you have a hard time remembering
• if you have mock tests, do them (without the book!) and analyze the type of question that gets ask. Usually they stay true to the problem type, but mix it a bit up
• hand-written flashcards
• if it's a lot of written stuff, you might use Anki for SRS

Tidying:

• konmari method (it's a series on Netflix, but you can also just join /r/konmari)

Getting stuff done:

• Analog:
  • /r/theXeffect - take a piece of paper, make a grid of 7x7 and mark it with a fat X if you did what you want to do, in your case "pay all due bills" and "do something for the taxes". Can be anything. Fill in your name in the tax form, etc.
  • bullet journal. I really like this setup: https://www.reddit.com/r/bujo/comments/iw07yg/moving_from_weekly_to_daily_spreads_there_is_so/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
• Digital:
  • Habitica.com
  • Habit tracker apps
  • Browser plugin and phone locker

I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:

• Habitica.com

I did the honors for you.

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You can read pretty clearly what is allowed and what is not in the [community guidelines](https://habitica.com/static/community-guidelines) which you accepted before entering habiticas social spaces.

I use and like Habitica because of the game vibe and because it's versatile for different types of habits. It's definitely helped me keep up with dishes and laundry better, my nemeses. Or could you two make a schedule/checklist/bingo card of maintenance tasks to keep in a shared area, or designate days?

I'm more like Husband than you; we had a Cinderella-esque household with uBPD mom starring as the evil mother and I can be either really avoidant or really neurotic with chores. She would rage after white-glove tests and I have those perfectionist fears too. I'm trying to change those behaviors as well. It's been beneficial to me to generally assign tasks to days and not be too strict with the timing or outcome, just aiming to be done and keep up. Ie, I try to get one room clean on Tuesday, do groceries and the kitchen on Thursday, do laundry Sunday...spreading it out to just 1-2 small things that I just need to fit in somewhere over the course of a day, and not penalizing myself for slipups or imperfect cleaning is helping me a lot. Especially because the standard of perfection is unreasonable-even my mother couldn't maintain a house at that level while working full time, she had two children to scream at for it and still hired someone from time to time! lol

Good question. Within the last two weeks I started making a bunch of lifestyle changes for the better. I'm still in the process of it all, but it includes putting down weed, meditating, and cooking. Weed was just taking up too many thoughts and I realized how a bad habit was developing, so I'm taking an extended break from it. Cooking is fun, it's useful, and I have a better eating schedule now. Meditating has been excellent so far.

I recently started using a "game" called Habitica. It's a tool for tracking your to-dos which act as quests in what is essentially a little RPG made from your life. It's been really helpful (and fun) for getting me to take action on things in a timely manner.

As others have mentioned, Habitica (formerly known as Habit RPG) is an excellent habit tracking application (web, android and apple) that leverages this idea of life being seen as a type of video game. As a lifelong gamer myself, I think there is a lot of worth in this approach, especially when thinking about ways to help youth transition into adulthood.

I use Google Calendar, and a journal mostly. Habitica is a fun RPG-like habit tracker where you get XP for doing things and lose health for not doing things.

It really helped me get started! Eventually I got too productive and basically OPed so I switched to just putting everything in my calendar and using a journal lol.

Nunca joguei, mas tem o Habitica.

>Habitica é um aplicativo gratuito de desenvolvimento de hábitos e produtividade que trata sua vida real como um jogo. Com recompensas e punições no jogo para motivar você e junto com uma forte rede social que serve de inspiração, o Habitica pode ajudar no alcance de seus objetivos para torna-se uma pessoa saudável, dedicada e feliz.

https://habitica.com/static/home

My bane was also video-games. And "False Achievement" is a nice way to sump up the affliction of 'Video-game Addiction'.
What I would recommend is using Habitica to track the new habits you wanna build coz u now have a lotta time in hand. Accomplishing tedious tasks feels awesome since the app feels like a video-game. U get a avatar who progresses as you do your daily habits.

I understand your feelings, a little too well in some instances. Get an app that gamifies your task list and/or blocks your web-browsing. Alternatively, turn off your Internet until you need it, then turn it off again.

Example: I use habitica.com for my to-do list and dock myself virtual points when I do a bad habit (in your case, that would be watching YouTube before finishing the task you wanted to do), and I use Forest for focused time periods of study. You can also use habitica.com to reward yourself; example: you gain fake money for completing tasks. Once you get enough money, you can buy "rewards". These rewards can be set to real life rewards, like "Watch a YouTube video", 5 coins.

All of these methods require you to actually use them, so you have to see what works for you.

>Side note, I assume you’re into video games. Think of your life as a game. Instead of spending hours improving your virtual character, spend those hours developing skills for your real avatar.

There's an app for that! Habitica

If you think a point reward system might help you, I recommend Habitica. Has places for both ongoing habits and tasks. Do well and you level up and can buy gear for your character.

Look at this article which will give you an idea of how many hours it takes to reach different levels of Japanese fluency: https://jlptbootcamp.com/2011/04/jlpt-study-hours-are-they-accurate/. Then you can figure out how much time you need to spend every day to reach a certain level in a certain amount of time. If you're busy, then the key is to budget your time like you budget your money (and if you're not budgeting your money, then what are you doing with all that math? Budget your money, dude).

I am a full-time optical engineer, married, and am pursuing a phd in optics. Here's my current 24 hour weekday, in no specific order because I try to flex my schedule as it is convenient on a day to day basis.

8 hr - work

1 hr - exercise

1 hr - dissertation work

0.5 hr - commute to/from work

1.5 hr - japanese notecards and grammar

0.75 hr - talking with a japanese person on using italki

0.25 hr - japanese shadowing

0.25 hr - japanese listening practice with supernative

0.5 hr - read/watch native japanese

0.5 hr - chores

2.0 hr - meals

0.25 hr - read a book

6 hr - sleep

That leaves 2.5 hours for everything else. I use habitica.com to check off each of the tasks as I complete them. Weekend days are basically the same, except without the 8 hours of work. Once I visit Japan in March, I'll move a good chunk of the Japanese study time into dissertation time to try to finish off my phd.

I like habitica.

It's a simple and not overly distracting RPG that doubles as tracker for "dailies" (washing dishes etc.), habits, and TO-DOs.

Everytime you do one of these, you get some amount of XP and Gold, that you can use to set your rewards (going for a beer, or gaming time), or use the in-game ones (better armor, weapon).

Check it out, maybe give it a try: https://habitica.com/

Oh, and everything is accomplished by doing stuff IRL, there is no real "game" behind this.

How about something like Habitica? Maybe having an external way to track your habits will help you see making progress all the way through, rather than having to wait for the end.

With respect to fitness, can you afford class passes or a gym membership? I find I’m way more likely to actually go if, say, I have 20 yoga classes I have to use up in the next three months. Once I get into a routine I’m a bit better, but to start off with, the motivation of “do this or your money has been wasted” is enough of a kick in the pants to get me started (and then I inevitably fall off the wagon, but that’s life. I just try to get back on as best I can and cut myself some slack).

I'm on a similar page as you -- brushing and flossing my teeth daily takes real effort! Using Habitica to gamify and tabulate my every day habits has been great, and might work for you as well.

>Life isn’t a video game. Have fun with it. It’s a big open world sandbox.

It is now: https://habitica.com/static/home

Habitica is a free habit-building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. With in-game rewards and punishments to motivate you and a strong social network to inspire you, Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy, hard-working, and happy.

Here's one section of the site that might help: Go to https://habitica.com/user/settings/api Click on 'Data Display Tool' link (down under Third Part Apps) Enter your ID/token and click 'Fetch my Data' There are a bunch of pages there. Habit Trends is kind of similar to what you want.

You didn't say it had to be a book related site.

https://search.creativecommons.org/ fav place to obtain clipart.

https://habitica.com/static/features for personal habits, also a link for the teens on our website.

https://adblockplus.org/ fav add-on for browsers, so useful. No more ads!