I Gamified My Life For A Week using Habitica

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I Tried Using Habitica for a Week... (Gamification To Do List App Review, Benefits, Guide, Setup)
#habitica #gamification #todolist

Thanks for watching!
In this video, I'll be showcasing my one week experience of using Habitica to gamify and organize my day-to-day life. I'll share my personal thoughts, benefits, and workflow to help you determine whether Habitica is for you! It includes levels, stats, armor, weapons, rewards, quests, parties, guilds, and so much more RPG elements that I've lost count :p

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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - First Thoughts
01:21 - Setup
02:20 - Day 1
04:17 - Day 2
06:21 - Day 3
07:45 - Day 4
08:58 - Day 5
09:30 - Day 6
10:04 - Day 7
11:27 - Benefits
12:28 - Downsides
13:02 - Recommendation
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Songs Used:
Bunny Girl Senpai ED Fukashigi no Carte [ Lofi Remix ]
crying for rain (Domestic Girlfriend but is it okay if it's lofi)
roaring tides (Clannad but is it okay if it's lofi hiphop)
fireworks festival (Weathering with You but is it okay if it's lofi hiphop)
black catcher (Black Clover but is it okay if it's lofi hiphop) (1)
cruel's angel thesis (Neon Genesis Evangelion but is it okay if it's lofi hiphop)
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5:39 An interesting feature is that If you don't do a task or daily or todo after a while, the ribbon of task will tend to red color, this helps to know which task is missed for longer time

HonorLone

Habitica really helped me and motivated me to do stuff, since all i really do is just play video games.
I'm honestly suprised in myself for actually wanting to do things now, and this video explains that really well!

boop

I'm a simple man. You upload, I watch. I'm that simple.

neutrinosssss

What sets habitica apart from the rest for me, is the social aspect. If it is just me, cheating/ just not doing the things is no problem. But because i know with parties and challenges other player do it correctly, i do not want to cheat. How could i feel good earning a gem challenge if i didn't do it correctly and took it away from someone who did?

couch_philosoph

This was a really handy explination of the app! I was considering getting it, and this video taught me more than anyone else did.

TheBreadPirate

Cruel Angel's Thesis as lofi hip hop is not something I knew I needed. Anyways this is a great overview.

nipponaihito

Thumbnail made me think: "Oh lord, this another one of those videos with a bunch of talking and no substance, never getting to the point". Boy way I WRONG. You provided a ton of detailed info and actually helped me. Thank you, stranger.

adriancostin

While Habtica does a lot of cool things, I think it does need an overhaul or a 2.0.

Cool elements:

Guilds (You can connect to people interested in the same topic and you can just browse and join any guild and converse.)

Parties
You can have a party wih friends or like minded people. You gain a group chat and the ability to work on quests together.
(while questing you damage bosses by doing your tasks and the boss damages the whole group if anyone neglects them. Participation is optional and if you are on a break you can sleep in the guesthouse.)

Leveling
By doing tasks you get XP and gold. (By neglecting them or doing negative habits you lose HP.
XP mean levels which mean more stat points and access to better gear.
Gold means you can purchase gear and healing potions. But also custom rewards as you can set "1 episode of show X for 10 Gold" and so on.
At the same time, you can set a task to 4 difficulties, which determine the rewarded XP and gold.
(This and the fact that you need no proof to tick off a task means cheating is easy, but you are really cheating yourself. Your party does not care about the same level or how long the boss takes, only if they get damage.)

Classes
All the classes cater to different "play"-styles, which is neat, but also can be harmful. So choose wisely.
Warrior:
Good attack and defense. Useful for fighting bosses.
Is pretty much core mechanics of habitica.
Mage:
More mana and group support. Helps everyone to do more damage and use skills more often. Levels faster for some reason.
Kind of habitica on speed for when you want more level ups.
Healer:
Stamina and Mana. Can heal hthemselves or the whole party.
You can heal yout fuck ups, but you still saw them at least. Ultimately does no damage and helps prevent losing a level due to death sometimes.
Rogue:
Earn more gold, find more loot.
Just cheat, because your skills let you skip tasks and never feel the "punishment". Maybe good for gambling and for people demotivated by HP-loss (but then I just don't have dailies or negative habits, instead of adding more work to using the app and getting in the way of myself).

Struggles:

Cool quests and gear costs real money (micro-transactions).
Way better than having ads, which would be damaging to the whole point. But still, it is sad, that you don't get to play the nicer quests if you don't invest or win challenges regularly.

Quests serve no real point.
Sometimes there is gear as a reward, but this is just not that interesting.
The quests also have no real enticing story. It is basically a pixel art you do damage to (which only mages and warriors do decently) or you have to randomly find something doing tasks (which the rouge is best in, so far as our last quest was soloed by the one we had)
To me, this is just not motivating and I could not care less If I am part of the most recent quest or not.

Communication is not great.
Be it within guilds or parties, you have one chat history (with all damage notices in it too) for the group. You can @someone and respond, but overall the bigger the guild the more meaningless any post and lost any conversation happening over a longer period. This does not further conversation, which is not the main goal (seeing as chatting actually keeps you from other things) but it is a great tool, that keeps you within the app. Most communication of the bigger guilds happenes on discord, where it is also way easier to keep links and info to the different challenges.

Easy design makes it actually hard! to use.
Habitica is NOT suitable for extensive to do list (How nice, that challenges tend to sometimes add 30 ToDos.).
They are not very well sorted, turn red within a short time, even if there is no deadline and automatically give better rewards the longer they are not done, rewarding procrastination or adding them just REALLY early.
Sorting them is a nightmare and takes ages. Tagging can help, but is also clunky.

Conclusion:
A nice idea and nostalgic approach, that does not make great use of psychology, is not highly customizable and ultimately I always lose motivation after a few weeks and rather use my BuJo, that records data forever, does not force the daily habits reset on me, if I forgot to tick off my dailies one day and writing something down feels more like an achievement than the jingle, that I have switched off, cause public?
The app is a hit or miss and you need to already be motivated and organized, cause it does not help that much with either.
Gving it a try may be great or you just delete the app again and go on with your life.

Haexxchen

Thanks for the overview! I just signed up for Habitica today and am feeling the same way about guilds.

Also, wow, what a productive cat!

melissanichole

This video is clean dude ! It helped me a lot going through Habitica and now I enjoy doing every simple task that I hated to do !

cortopti

I thing the money glitch thing is a non-issue since Habitica can't actually tell if you performed most of the tasks you say you have. It's simply a 'you only lie to yourself' type of situation :D

omnirhythm

You have a very interesting and pleasant presentation of information.
Even though I already know about this app, it was all very interesting to listen to you.
You deserve a lot more subscribers and views)

quortenl

I love the subject and execution of your content. It's great stuff that I can't wait to see more of

BradleyRichards

Thank you for making this video, even a year after, it serves it purpose greatly

DvjKaa

I haven’t used Habitica since like 2016 . Not sure why I fell off (I didn’t use it for that long) but seeing the updates and how other ppl use it, has definitely given me insight to try again with different approach and to utilize all features. Definitely taking notes, thank you for the video

Back then I was struggling with less , now I’m managing with more responsibility and can’t wait to see how I can use this to further my goals. I missed playing video games, I am scared of getting sucked into them so I avoid them cause they make me paranoid that I’m wasting time and become lazy. But this app makes productivity into a game basically so no holding back for me :)

Btw love all the comments

THoque-vdnt