User blog:Taldin/Busy Working, But Not Busy Work

One of the problems with using HabitRPG is that there's a meta Daily to visit the site once a day to fill out your dailies. Failure to do so means that when you do show up, you have damage with your name on it even if you did those things.

I'm on a business trip doing training stuff this week, so it's even harder for me to do my regular dailies, and working as hard as I am and coming home to an unfamiliar hotel room has thrown my routines into utter chaos. I'm not sitting on my own computer regularly during the day either, where I have Habits up continuously (which is why I've been silent in guild chats that I'm in) and I'm only keeping up with the Wiki by sheer luck (sheepish grin) and the fact that people have been sending me messages I've been answering.

But I digress.

How do I avoid dying if I can't dedicate the time to Habits as a habitual thing?

There are a number of workarounds for this, some of which I'm doing right now.

1) Turn all of your Dailies grey.   That way you take 0 damage from any ones you didn't complete -- you just won't see any streaks or earn a Perfect Day out of it.   (Though now I'm wondering if you get a Perfect Day if you have no due Dailies.)

2) Make Habits part of your bedtime routine.  (You don't know how many times it's saved me from forgetting to take out the trash on the once per week trash night.)

3) Install Habits on a mobile device if you use one as an alarm clock.   You can check off Dailies as you're going to bed instead of having to get up and power a computer back up.

Might add more later, but I've got to get back to class.

Taldin (talk) 19:21, March 12, 2015 (UTC)