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