Anyone know of an app that provides daily check marks?
After reading about Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret ( http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret ) I have been interested in using this in many areas of my life. It is extremely effective, especially for things I only want to spend a few minutes on per day, but I know if I just spend those few minutes I will make long term progress.
Examples of things I want to try to do every day: - Practice Guitar (at least 30m) - Learn a new joke or 'bar trick' - Exercise (at least 30m) - Clean one area of my apartment - Write a letter/email to one person I care about
And so on. The tricky thing is that I ran out of a good way to track my daily checkmarks. The best system I have tried so far is to use stickers on a calender, but the cognitive overhead of "ok, a blue star == learn a joke" is annoying.
Does anyone know of a web app that can handle this for me?
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We have exactly what you describe in mind (does not mean we will be the best app to nail it, so please let us know what you think critics etc. so that we can iterate & improve).
Tags: Seinfeldprodsecret; 10000hoursrule; deliberatepractice; QuantifiedSelf; selftracking; dailyroutine http://blog.quantter.com/
At the moment just use a microsyntax on twitter for instance like this: #guitar:30mn or #newjoke:1 or #letter:1 (those are what we call quantts=atom of human activity) http://blog.quantter.com/syntax
You will have a profile page eg http://quantter.com/Goosey with a calendar to visualize your Quantts with a regularity index number (to tell how regular you are in breaking or not your chain).
Depending on where you are based you may also want to participate in QuantifiedSelf meetups? http://quantified-self.meetup.com/
and for a shameless plug: I use made http://101in365.com to handle goals over the course of a year with the ability to track them in smaller increments (i.e. daily).