So I found an app a few years ago that has helped me a lot. There are a few around, but the one that has helped me is Habitica. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s an app that gamifies chores. You get xp and levels and equipment and shit when you check off chores. As you do more and more chores, the xp adds up and you level up. I am currently level 55. It has helped me a lot. I get SEVERE executive dysfunction. So having something I can see and almost feel as a reward is good. I love seeing my level go up.
It’s at Habitica.com. I’m not being paid by Habitica to say this. I just thought yall might get some benefit out of it. It has the added benefit of being open source :)
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It’s been more than five years since I touched it, but it didn’t work too great for me.
My problem with it is that it requires you to set it all up. The tasks, frequency, chains, point values, etc. I was always second guessing my settings, and it’s very easy to make it too easy.
You have to want it to work, and not want to metagame the gamification of your todo list. That gets harder when you look at the social aspects of it and see all the people with high scores and such who absolutely are metagaming the system instead of just using it as a habit aid.
I used to use it a decade ago but it was hit-or-miss for me. Eventually checking it became just another task I was avoiding.
I’ve been enjoying a self hosted habitica instance for a few months now!! highly recommended!
I just got my instance set up and I wonder if there’s any way to get the mobile app to sign in to it?
shithubdotcom awinterstein/habitica-android
awesome! it has truly saved my life. Before habitica, I was regularly getting into issues with landlords etc about cleanliness. I live in govt housing now, so they’re nowhere near as strict, but at the same time, my house is clean a lot of the time.
oh man it’s so dang cool. it def gets me to brush my teeth more regularly. linking it with home assistant adds even more ways to trigger my ass up off the couch!
I haven’t thought about habitica in an age but that game saved my sanity pre-meds! I should probably pick it back up, lol
yup. Same here. Though I’m neither diagnosed, nor medicated. But it’s the only thing that helps with my executive dysfunction.
I have searched for an app like this. I never found it!
That search was some time ago. But glad I found it now.
It also has other parts like a longer term to do list that you can get xp from as you do things in the future. I use it as a sort of project manager
