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jackNumberland said HabitRPG had improved a lot, so I decided yesterday afternoon to follow through on my plaintive question, why can't I gamify the rest of my life like I got addicted to Ingress? Random thoughts:
It has what I wished beeminder had, a list of tasks you may or may not have done today, and you can check them off quickly without having to go to a separate page with lots of options for each one.
I made _lots_ basically all the things I regularly try to do, fun and productive, organised by category. Rather than give myself rewards of "watch tv/read book" which often gives me perverse incentives, I made those things other habits to build, and trusted future-Jack to do the tasks he wants to do, and not game the system by doing the ones that get the most points with least effort. I LOVE clicking on buttons, but I like clicking on hard buttons as much ore more as easy buttons :)
I immediately noticed a perverse incentive, when my brain started saying "don't do that now, wait till you're by a computer and will remember to enter it on the website". So I made a habit for "do a task even if I forget to fill it in" to train myself to do that sometimes :)
Which makes the point, of literal habit-building -- of conquering the perverse impulse to think "I should do that, no, maybe not" and head it off, not necessarily of forcing myself to do something I don't want to do. I don't know if it will work, but I made a couple of mental-habit-forming habits, "was tempted to procrastinate for no reason but didn't", "was tempted to put off speaking to someone in person but didn't" etc.
The number of things I said I wanted to do is LOTS, I see why systems of committing to a certain number per week didn't work before...
For me, it has the right amount of trust. You can always reset your values if you actually need to, but it's designed to funnel you into avoiding fudging. Beeminder's "commit RIGIDLY in advance" was maybe-maybe-not helpful for getting me started on habits, but was much too inflexible for me on most things. For the big habits I want to do come what may, then "every day, except medical emergency" is right. But there's lots of habits I want to build MOST days but accept that sometimes I won't have time, and beeminder didn't really focus on that.
I like the idea of building up a little avatar. I'm not sure about special powers, etc.
I wish all the habits showed how often you'd done them today. Partly so I can make sure I've clicked the right number of times. And partly so I can see how I'm doing overall.
I wish there was a control for how fast habits decayed. I want some that I need to repeat on the scale of hours, and others on the scale of months. I think this is one (of very very many) proposed features so hopefully it will pop up one day.
It has what I wished beeminder had, a list of tasks you may or may not have done today, and you can check them off quickly without having to go to a separate page with lots of options for each one.
I made _lots_ basically all the things I regularly try to do, fun and productive, organised by category. Rather than give myself rewards of "watch tv/read book" which often gives me perverse incentives, I made those things other habits to build, and trusted future-Jack to do the tasks he wants to do, and not game the system by doing the ones that get the most points with least effort. I LOVE clicking on buttons, but I like clicking on hard buttons as much ore more as easy buttons :)
I immediately noticed a perverse incentive, when my brain started saying "don't do that now, wait till you're by a computer and will remember to enter it on the website". So I made a habit for "do a task even if I forget to fill it in" to train myself to do that sometimes :)
Which makes the point, of literal habit-building -- of conquering the perverse impulse to think "I should do that, no, maybe not" and head it off, not necessarily of forcing myself to do something I don't want to do. I don't know if it will work, but I made a couple of mental-habit-forming habits, "was tempted to procrastinate for no reason but didn't", "was tempted to put off speaking to someone in person but didn't" etc.
The number of things I said I wanted to do is LOTS, I see why systems of committing to a certain number per week didn't work before...
For me, it has the right amount of trust. You can always reset your values if you actually need to, but it's designed to funnel you into avoiding fudging. Beeminder's "commit RIGIDLY in advance" was maybe-maybe-not helpful for getting me started on habits, but was much too inflexible for me on most things. For the big habits I want to do come what may, then "every day, except medical emergency" is right. But there's lots of habits I want to build MOST days but accept that sometimes I won't have time, and beeminder didn't really focus on that.
I like the idea of building up a little avatar. I'm not sure about special powers, etc.
I wish all the habits showed how often you'd done them today. Partly so I can make sure I've clicked the right number of times. And partly so I can see how I'm doing overall.
I wish there was a control for how fast habits decayed. I want some that I need to repeat on the scale of hours, and others on the scale of months. I think this is one (of very very many) proposed features so hopefully it will pop up one day.