Viliam_Bur comments on Group Rationality Diary, December 1-15 - Less Wrong
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A few different things:
I have had a fairly solid Anki habit for the past three months or so.
I have ankified a few self-improvement concepts (Lukeprog's posts on procrastination, some of Kaj Sotala's stuff on habits, random other tidbits), and I believe the constant exposure to those ideas has started having an effect, in that I seem to have started doing a lot of the advice in there (not all though). I may report on it later on.
But more dramatically effective, I recently started using HabitRPG, and have used it to get a few new daily habits:
It's also a good motivator for just getting things done in general. My choice of habits have been somewhat influenced by KajSotala's article on The Power of Habit, and by talking to some LWers who read that book and talked about Keystone Habits around exercise and sleeping. Also, I was influenced by Lukeprog's talking about success spirals to start by focusing on somewhat easier-to-achieve things (and also, Swimmer's discussion of goals versus systems.
How exactly do you put this in HabitRPG? Do you use HabitRPG from your bed, or can you somehow enter your daily task the next day?
I imagine you could make a daily goal of "I went to bed before midnight yesterday", but that feels a bit inellegant.
I have Habit RPG for Android, so yep I can use it from bed (it's also convenient for entering todos that I forgot without having to get up).
(I also set the "end of day" to 2 AM so that I can still enter dailies like that after midnight)
This is what I do.
Me also. It's gratifying to start the day by getting to remind myself that I was successful at stuff yesterday.
I also have an (admittedly ill-defined and therefore poorly adhered-to) goal of minimizing screen use after I get home for the night. But at least HRPG is one tab I don't feel compelled to open.