Last month I started using HabitRPG, and Boomeranged myself to post about it again in a month’s time. So here are my experiences so far:
The positive: At 2nd or 3rd level you get to form a party with other people, so now my best friend and I can see each other’s health, XP and gear. Being in a party doesn’t do anything else, but it does add a little extra accountability/competitiveness/gear envy. The gear you can buy with your rewards looks pretty cool. The system gently encourages you via the XP mechanic to break stuff up into subtasks so you can get more xp and regularly review habits that you’re not getting done (since not doing them makes you lose health).
The negative: A few showstopping bugs: when I have it open it regularly disconnects from the server until I reload the page, which often results in me losing task completions/new tasks that I’d added. On my (Android) tablet browser, trying to complete a task causes the browser to crash, every time. Leaving the tab open in the browser often slows my netbook down due to some kind of memory leak.
Also, customising tasks so that they only trigger on certain days or give more or less xp or whatever is kind of fiddly and not really worth doing most of the time IMO.
Overall: The fact that I can’t use my tablet to complete tasks anymore is kind of a dealbreaker for me. I’m still using it at the moment but unless the tablet issue gets fixed I’ll probably try to find some other method of tracking and forming habits. It’s a pity because the main part of the app is very effective.
Last month I started using HabitRPG, and Boomeranged myself to post about it again in a month’s time. So here are my experiences so far:
The positive: At 2nd or 3rd level you get to form a party with other people, so now my best friend and I can see each other’s health, XP and gear. Being in a party doesn’t do anything else, but it does add a little extra accountability/competitiveness/gear envy. The gear you can buy with your rewards looks pretty cool. The system gently encourages you via the XP mechanic to break stuff up into subtasks so you can get more xp and regularly review habits that you’re not getting done (since not doing them makes you lose health).
The negative: A few showstopping bugs: when I have it open it regularly disconnects from the server until I reload the page, which often results in me losing task completions/new tasks that I’d added. On my (Android) tablet browser, trying to complete a task causes the browser to crash, every time. Leaving the tab open in the browser often slows my netbook down due to some kind of memory leak. Also, customising tasks so that they only trigger on certain days or give more or less xp or whatever is kind of fiddly and not really worth doing most of the time IMO.
Overall: The fact that I can’t use my tablet to complete tasks anymore is kind of a dealbreaker for me. I’m still using it at the moment but unless the tablet issue gets fixed I’ll probably try to find some other method of tracking and forming habits. It’s a pity because the main part of the app is very effective.
Crap, did you just use one of those words that I’ve been brainwashed into not being able to see or what?
Fixed my broken link, thanks for pointing it out :)