Glad to be of help! I was almost put off by the overly rave reviews when I first tried it lol but now I can imagine myself writing one.
I haven’t tried Focusmate, although I do do timed work sessions (and did before I used the app) and now use the app to enforce a certain amount of time per day, so this achieves a similar effect.
I registered on forfeit and see that it has pomodoro forfeits in the app, so using it for focusmate may be redundant.
It might be redundant, although one thing that is really great about it is that because screenshots are the universal interface you can keep using the apps you already use and just use Forfeit to submit evidence. This is why I still use Habitica even though I could equally put the same tasks in Forfeit directly, there is just no particular reason to do so.
Also, if you don’t mind me asking, what is the commitment you most often fail? Is it time spent on twitter and youtube?
I’ve looked through at the ones I have failed and it looks like “reply to X person” and “publish blog post” are the categories that stand out. For replying to people I deliberately set the penalty low to begin with (and increase it if I fail the first time) so this is by design. For publishing blog posts, there aren’t that many instances but I have failed >50% of them, here I was generally underestimating the effort it takes.
I actually rarely fail the twitter one because the penalty is quite high (and I block it via Freedom for the rest of the day if I’m getting close to the limit).
Glad to be of help! I was almost put off by the overly rave reviews when I first tried it lol but now I can imagine myself writing one.
I haven’t tried Focusmate, although I do do timed work sessions (and did before I used the app) and now use the app to enforce a certain amount of time per day, so this achieves a similar effect.
It might be redundant, although one thing that is really great about it is that because screenshots are the universal interface you can keep using the apps you already use and just use Forfeit to submit evidence. This is why I still use Habitica even though I could equally put the same tasks in Forfeit directly, there is just no particular reason to do so.
I’ve looked through at the ones I have failed and it looks like “reply to X person” and “publish blog post” are the categories that stand out. For replying to people I deliberately set the penalty low to begin with (and increase it if I fail the first time) so this is by design. For publishing blog posts, there aren’t that many instances but I have failed >50% of them, here I was generally underestimating the effort it takes.
I actually rarely fail the twitter one because the penalty is quite high (and I block it via Freedom for the rest of the day if I’m getting close to the limit).