But do negative habits or miss your dailies and your character will get hurt and can even die. As you complete positive habits, dailies and to-do’s your character gains eXperience Points and Gold. Your character, that little Chibi-you in the corner, is what Habitica is all about. Dailies are things that you want to do on a regular, timed basis, like “Reply to all Email before noon”. Habits are things that you want to cement into routine (positive habits, like “Go for a walk”), or remove from your daily life (negative habits, like “Eat Junk Food”). Habitica offers three types of goals: Habits, Dailies and To-Do’s. And don’t worry, you can change your goals at any time. No forced input from the game, it’s just you and your goals. You get to choose exactly what you want to accomplish and decide how hard it is. You also start out with a (purely decorative) knife and shield combination. At the very start you get to give your character some visual attributes, like a bow in his hair, a skin color (like, you know, blue) and an armor.

It’s all retro-style pixel art, just like the old go-raid-a-dungeon RPG games of the early 1990’s. When you start out you get a tiny pixel-chibi (for those of you who don’t know Japanese: a Chibi is a cute character that looks like a kid with an oversized head). That’s because Habitica is an RPG themed, gamified, productivity tool. But instead of badges, measurements and merits you get swords, armor and healing potions. It’s also a game.Īs the (former) name suggests, Habitica is a gamified version of your average productivity tool. Habitica (formerly HabitRPG) is an online task list, action reminder, and habit adjustment tool. I’ve dutifully checked boxes, dotted i’s and crossed t’s. I’ve dutifully entered my tasks into lists and notes. Yes, it’s serviceable (there’s even the Secret Weapon for doing it) but there’s been something missing. Until now I’ve used Evernote, storing to-dos, projects and tasks.

But not once have I thought about the importance of the tools you use for your system. I’ve tried Getting Things Done, :the Artist’s Way:, a dozen others. I’ve always wanted to be more productive.

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