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Most of the time, we need to solve one problem at a time. To do that effectively, it’s important to break down the challenge into its fundamental parts—first principles—so we can focus on what really matters and take actionable steps.
Components help you do exactly that. They allow us to group similar databases together into manageable chunks. This modular approach simplifies the larger system, breaking it down into smaller, more focused parts that you can tackle individually. By organizing everything into components, you’re able to manage your workflow more effectively and avoid being overwhelmed by the complexity of the full system.
The Gamified Habits Notion Template connects a fleshed out Habits database to the Gamified Life Tracker Notion Template, to turn habits from chores that we have to do, to recurring quests that we get to do.
Principles
Includes
- Bundled with the Gamified Life Tracker Notion Template:
Habits Tracker (Recurring Quests) Database
How do we keep track and effectively manage our habits?
Games make it easy to see what kind of recurring quests that are available for you, and you can easily work them into your gameplay loop. We consider habits the real life equivalent of recurring quests that you go on, and every time you finish a quest, its a “win”.
How It Works
At A Glanceshows how much rewards you should expect to get for this habit.
Descriptionlets you explain the habit in more detail (almost like a quest description in games).
Typehelps you plan when you need to do this quest. This makes it easy to do habit bundling since you’ll be doing many habits of a type at once.
DifficultyandDurationwill affect how many rewards you get for the win. These change theXPandGoldformula outputs.
Frequencyhelps you set how often you want this recurring habit to show up.
Do Dateis a formula that calculates based on when you last did the quest, which date should you have to do it again.
- Click
Hand Into mark a habit as complete and claim your rewards! This button will help you add a page to the activity log and attribute this win to your character.
Setup
- In the
Allview, add habits that you need to work on. Feel free to edit existing entries to fit your needs!
Views
- All: Shows all the habits that you want to do.
- The board view makes it easy to use on a desktop
- The list view is easier to use on a mobile device.
- To-Do: Filters out the habits that have already been done for the day, based on
Do Date
Customization
- You can also add a health component to the habit tracker so that you earn health for doing certain habits.
FAQs
- I want to share my database with another person to hand in their wins too!
This is really easy to do! You just need to set up a new Person property to track who that habit belongs to, and a Hand In button that will assign the win to them.
Bad Habits Tracker Database
How do we track all the bad habits that we want to break?
We want to also be honest with ourselves about the bad habits we want to break, and if we can visualize the consequences immediately, it is easier for us to be able to improve.
How It Works
Descriptionexplains what this bad habit is all about.
At A Glanceshows us the cost of this bad habit.
Typehelps us categorize what kind of damage we’re doing to ourselves.
XP / Gold / HP Costis custom for you to fill in.
I Messed Upbutton adds an entry to the activity log and applies the consequence onto your character.
Setup
Views
- All: Shows all the bad habits that you want to work on in your life.
- The board view makes it easy to use on a desktop
- The list view is easier to use on a mobile device.
Customization
- You can also add a status property to help track progress in reducing the bad habit.
- You can also add a date racker to see when you last did the bad habit.
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