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diff --git a/habitrpg.post b/habitrpg.post new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49d379c --- /dev/null +++ b/habitrpg.post @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +;;;;; +title: HabitRPG +tags: software, tasks, todo +date: 2014-06-24 23:57 +format: md +;;;;; + +A quick post just to have written one, it's been awhile... + +[HabitRPG](https://habitrpg.com/#/tasks) is a to-do application unlike +many others. It gamifies your task list by adding Role Playing Game +elements. You create a character, you have HP, XP, (eventually) MP and +gold. There are three categories of tasks: habits, dailies and to-dos. +They're colored from red (bad) to yellow (neutral) and blue (good). +Not completing dailies will cost you HP and turn them red, leave them +incomplete for too long and your character will die and lose a level. +You gain XP and coins by completing tasks. You can use your MP for +certain special abilities, for example strike hard at a task and shift +its color more towards blue. You can use coins to buy rewards, either +self-made or thought-up by the HabitRPG developers. + +You can also start a party and go questing with friends, or join a +guild. There are also challenges, which are sets of tasks specified by +someone else, as a challenge. + +I've tried many a to-do application. I've even tried writing my own a +few times. I've never really been satisfied. For a long while now I've +been using [org-mode](http://orgmode.org) for Emacs, both because it +is Emacs and because it flexible enough to change completely to your +own needs. The only problems remaining are identifying your needs and +keeping up with your task list. Both are tricky to me, but that last +one gets worse the bigger my task list gets. + +Unexpectedly, HabitRPG's rewards and random loot are stimulation +enough for me to keep completing tasks. I've been using it for a +couple of weeks now and I'm still completing stuff, which is quite +unusual for me. And I put lots of stuff in there, such as "Drink +water", which is a habit I want to stimulate; or "Exercise" (three +days a week as a daily), which is something I've been needing to do in +a long time and so far I'm keeping it up well; or single tasks like +"Clean up `~/projects`", which I've yet to do. + +I suppose it helps that I've always liked computer RPGs, and this +wouldn't work if I didn't feel that the reward of being able to buy a +new weapon for my character is any kind of motivation. + +Anyway, if you have trouble motivating yourself to actually complete +tasks on your to-do list and it sounds like fun to you, you might try +it. + +<!-- Local Variables: --> +<!-- mode: markdown --> +<!-- End: --> |