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I once had a system in which I was writing checkboxes on paper for tasks I wanted to do regularly.
Stuff like eating vitamins, or doing backups of my server.
It started with the typical daily/weekly/monthly todos, but it gradually evolved into something much less rigid, and calculated in a (increasingly complex) spreadsheet.
For a long time, I've been working out the balance between this system being forgiving...
(as in, allowing for soft recovery, rather then being hit by "do 12 hours of jogging" after a week of vacation)
and also giving you accountability over a longer period
(as in, avoiding the "I'll skip it this week, and instead definitely do it next week" effect).
I've also recently had the idea to publish some Android apps, and one of the first ideas was to code a cleaner, leaner and meaner version of my old spreadsheet.
As far as productivity apps go, this is very basic stuff, but I haven't actually found anything out there that could replace my system.
So lo and behold.
It's still kinda maybe not feature complete, but I already use it myself (and I've finally retired the spreadsheet :D):
If you like this sorta stuff, give it a try and let me know what you'd like to see improved.
Saying all this without actually seeing the app
I have been trying out systems for a while now. So has Regex and various others.
The introspective thing that I have noticed, and you mentioned here without clearly identifying it is the iterative development of systems. Which is to say that you started on paper, and moved to spreadsheet and after moved to an app (as well as probably several versions of each).
What makes the final version work in the face of potential complexity of starting a new system (and taking a leap) is partly the fact that you lived th... (read more)