![]() ![]() (For more on motivation and winning streaks, see “ Harnessing a Winning Streak.”)Īs you can see from my streaks, I wasn’t able to keep on top of tasks in the same way as usual over the holidays, so I missed my targets several times up through the New Year, resetting the impressive streaks I had built up before Thanksgiving. If I keep to these targets, my karma keeps going up, and my daily and weekly streaks (shown at the bottom) accumulate. These are the default settings, which are actually great for me, but you can change them to whatever you want. I’m trying to complete at least that many tasks to keep on track, which is to say at least 5 per weekday and at least 25 per week. See the gray vertical lines, one for the last 7 days and one for the last 4 weeks? Those are my targets. Here’s a screen shot of my karma as of today (click to zoom): (For a more thorough consideration of the connection between games and motivation, read A Surprising Source of Insight into Self-Motivation: Video Games.) How can what basically amounts to a simple counting game help get more work done? By setting reachable goals and inspiring involvement. Since then, I’ve been a little amazed that it actually seems to work: I’m more productive, more focused, and more diligent specifically because of Todoist karma. At the time, I must have thought it sounded to hokey or decided that the idea of having a productivity “score” was lame, because I didn’t start using it until five or six months ago. In March 2013, they introduced a tool called “karma,” a sort of ongoing game or rating based on how well you do at tracking and completing tasks. All the key features are available for free (though I subscribe to get the advanced features, paying $29/year). In previous posts, I’ve recommended the online task manager Todoist for Getting Things Done-style organization. ![]()
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