I’ve been a bit lazy on productivity outside work lately. I haven’t been using my Habitica board in months.
Maybe one of the reasons, is the pressure that comes off with how Habitica is set. You either complete the task, or you get a penalty for skipping it. Which to be fair was a positive when I had more time, but now it’s plain hard to focus on things in my spare time.
That’s why I got back at using Things 3, which I bought for some of my devices when it got released years ago. On the positive side — seems I can manage my everyday tasks and side projects there (close to impossible to Habitica. It’s not a project management tool) so I will finally have a single place from which I can manage everything that fits into a task, work or personal.
Currently, Things has everything I need to help me get back on track for my goals. It’s also minimalistic and beautiful. Something I can’t say for Todoist. I tried using it again (3rd or 4th time), I even paid for premium. But I just couldn’t stand some UI issues (somehow using emojis in project names for example doesn’t look good visually). I have tried to make it work many times, but it’s just not my tool somehow. I feel that they have delayed a visual refresh for a too much time now.
Completing a task in Things doesn’t feel as good as before in Habitica. But at least the pressure of logging in every day, and blaming myself when I’m not in a mood to work on a task (or just life happens) is gone. And things can only get better in the future (pun not intended).