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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.
(Also if you happen to really like it and be generous, there's a premium version which has the same functionality but makes me more happy)
I wouldn't use an app like that without the app being able to export data.
But it does in fact have this option.
(Admittedly, the format of data is not documented, but it's just plaintext K=V.)
Export data....why? Like, what other device are you going to load this data on? You've got your task tracker on your phone...and its records go where else?
I mean, more features = more good, but I'm just curious about the use case here.
I carry my phone around a lot. I might lose my phone or it might get stolen.
I also don't want to be locked into a single application. Especially when testing a new software. I want to keep my data and not be bound to a single service.
For introspection/QS purposes it's also good to have the data in a way where I can analyse it further. For example I log all calls and all pomodoros I do to a Google calendar. Otherwise most of my data goes to Evernote.