Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

Re:Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it by prawn on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:50AM (#22105796)

We built an app* for this and use it ourselves - it's very effective. I have tasks for working (even a token amount) morning or night on a side project, working on the biggest roadblock task I have, and things like that. The app splits tasks into a "front six" and "back six" so I have six focused on work/business and then six focused on home (reading, trying to learn a language, etc).

I remember at one point having 'walk x steps' and 'read x minutes' as daily tasks, so I'd often be walking around the house while reading just before midnight to make sure I kept my streaks alive.

* https://streaks.app/ (iOS only)

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Re:Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it by adenverd on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @10:04PM (#22114199)

Came here to suggest Streaks, I've been using it for a few months now. My favorite features are:

- Streaks that track Apple Health data. Really nice job with the integration. I use this for tracking daily calorie, macronutrient, and workout goals.

- "X times per week" streaks. I take rest days from working out, so it's nice to have an abstraction that doesn't treat them as failures or breaking the streak.

I guess I should go give you guys a good app store review now. Thanks for making this!

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Re:Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it by prawn on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:17AM (#22116863)

Thanks! From the start, I found that having an easy-to-reach automatically-tracked Health goal (x,000 steps/day) was a good way to keep you feeling like you were accomplishing something. Went some way towards keeping you on track.

I wish they'd open up the screen time tracking because I'd like to have a Streaks task of keeping my daily screen time under a certain level.

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