User blog:Janetmango/Trying New Variable Frequency Tracking and Reward System

I'm trying a new variable frequency tracking and reward system, so this might require tweaking, but I'll start and give updates on progress.

Let me start by saying that I think it would be amazing if we could have bi-weekly and monthly tracking for our Dailies, but I know that's a very heavily-requested feature, so it might be here one day.

In the meantime, I've been looking at the workaround for monthlies using private guilds and challenges. But I'd like to keep my monthlies and bi-weeklies as Dailies instead of ToDo's.

So here's what I'm trying, starting January 2015. Any Dailies that I want to make sure I complete once, twice, or four times per month, I've greyed. Then I've set up 3 tags for my Dailies:  1PerMonth, 2PerMonth, and 1PerWeek, and I've tagged the Dailies.

When I complete them, I'm going to put the month/day in the Notes section. Then i can quickly see how many times I've completed them for that month.

I've created a To-Do for each tag, so I have
 * Jan 2015 - Complete all Dailies tagged 1PerMonth,
 * Jan 2015 - Complete all Dailiies tagged 2PerMonth, and
 * Jan 2015 - Complete all Dailies tagged 1PerWeek.

I'm giving myself Custom Rewards if I can complete these 3 ToDo's for the month. Since I use the Wishing Well custom reward, I'm going to give myself 1 week of unlimited free usage of the Wishing Well for each of the 3 ToDo's I can successfully complete. That would save me ALOT of gold.

I'm trying to see which reward is more motivating, so I may decide to create a real challenge in my private guild that would show on my Stats and Achivements page. That might be one of the tweaks I make in upcoming months.