GTD with Habitica

Getting Things Done (GTD) is a time management methodology that many people have adopted to become more productive and stress-free in all aspects of life (see Wikipedia ). Many elements of the GTD system can be applied to HabitRPG.

One key concept of Getting Things Done is writing every planned task or project down externally so you can stay focused on the current task. These tasks are then sorted in a system of different common areas, which can include time components, collaborators, certain tools used for completion of the task, or tags utilizing specific context.

Players interested in using HabitRPG alongside David Allen's Getting Things Done system might find these tips useful. Even those who are not using GTD, may find some of these tips relevant.

Capture: Collect Your Ideas & Projects
You can use HabitRPG as your inbox, or use it just for entering actionable items and/or projects. Your in-basket might be an Inbox to-do with checklists and/or notes or an Inbox tag.

TIP: if you enter tasks with any tag(s) selected, those tags will be added to the new item.

Do It Habit
Will it take less than 2 minutes? Do it, and click + for your Do-It habit without having to write it down.

Otherwise, put it in your task list, delegate it (send the task to someone else) or add it to your Someday/Maybe list.

Delegating with Challenges
Trick: If you delegate tasks to another habitrpg player(s) frequently, it may be helpful to set up a challenge for that person (people).


 * Challenge Name: Joe Bloe


 * Sean Soe creates a challenge in her Work Team private guild for Joe Bloe and adds tasks. When he has new tasks for Joe, he edits the task page. When Joe completes to-dos, Sean deletes them so they don't clog up Joe Bloe's completed list. Joe never leaves the challenge so Sean can continue to send him tasks.

Defer It Checklist: Someday/Maybe
One method of handling Someday/Maybe tasks within HabitRPG is to enter them as checklist items in a Someday/Maybe to-do list or several Context or related to-dos (e.g. @Calls tag, @Home, or Writing, Work, Personal). To score these, click + a habit, such as Someday/Maybe or Do-It! habit and delete the checklist item that was completed.

This task will become red overtime. Ignore the redness, as it will not affect you, or, depending on your class, you may be able to reduce the redness.

Organize: Put it Where it Belongs
Put action reminders in the right lists and tag them appropriately. Alternatively, set up dailies or habits to review your buckets. For example, you might have a daily to go through your physical inbox, your actionable pile and/or your google task list.

Schedule
Are you going to do this every day or weekly? Make it a daily. More often than once a day? Add it as a habit. Schedule to-dos by adding a date, and/or adding a daily or habit to move a project ahead.

Contexts, People, Tools
Method 1: Tags. Add tags for each context, person, or tool. (Emoji can help keep your task list shorter). You may wish to use emoji on each item to help reinforce the tag.

Method 2: Potentially used with tags: Add a to-do for each context and add single step tasks as checklist items.

Actionable vs. Inactionable Items
Method one: Active & Inactive Tags.

Apply an active tag to all items that are actionable. Apply an inactive tag for actions that cannot be done yet. Periodically review (daily or habit) for items that are inappropriately tagged.

Method 2: Create a checklist for on-hold tasks, similar to the Someday/Maybe to-do approach.

Reflect: Review
Add a HabitRPG daily for Weekly Review and set it to be due on the day of the week you wish to do it and/or add a Review habit, if desired.

Engage: Do It—and reap rewards!
Take action on your tasks and start reaping rewards.

Projects and Next Actions
You can track your projects with tags and/or checklists. It may be appropriate to use both methods for certain projects.

Simple One-Time Project: Assemble Furniture

 * To-do: Assemble Furniture, tags: outside, NextAction


 * Print Instructions
 * Check Box for Parts
 * Build It

One-time Complex Project: Buy a House, tag: house

 * To-do: Plan House Purchase, tags: house, review, NextAction


 * Define Purpose: make room for growing family
 * Determine Outcome: what type of house
 * Brainstorm Roadmap: note things needed to be done
 * Organize Roadmap: create task(s) with plan
 * +/- Habit: Save for House


 * +/- Habit: Purge/sell extra stuff


 * To-do: Get Second Job, tags: house, work, NextAction


 * To-do: Brainstorm Roadmap, tags: house, NextAction


 * Collect Funds
 * Purge Possessions
 * Research Market costs
 * Research location
 * … added as thought of, some items may be converted to NextAction tasks

Next Actions
If your project steps are divided into individual tasks, you can use a Next Action tag to filter them.

If your project steps are stored outside of habit or in project checklists, you could create to-dos just for your next actions.

Habits
Establish a habit of doing the five-steps. Whether you capture, clarify, organize, review your lists or engage in something that wasn't listed, use this to score points

To-Dos

 * Next Actions: each task represents a next action, with other tasks stored elsewhere.


 * Projects: list your projects, with steps in the notes, the next action at the top of the steps.
 * Tasks for each step of a Project: with tags applied for projects and next actions.
 * Someday/Maybe: with a checklist for those tasks


 * Context X, eg. Calls: with a checklist for calls to be made