User blog:Sonnet73/Creative Ways of Setting Up Tasks

I've come across some great tips and tricks for setting up Habitica tasks in this Wiki as well as in chats around the Habitica website. Since I'm particularly susceptible to information overload and because chat posts disappear after a while, I thought I'd collect some of my personal favorites here. Feel free to share any of your favorite tips!

Using Dailies to Complete Challenging To-Dos
I'm often more motivated to complete Dailies than To-Dos given the incentives involved (I'm very proud of my Perfect Day achievements!), so I like the following tips because they leverage Dailies to help you complete your most challenging To-Dos.

"Tackle a Red To-Do" Daily
Set up the following daily: This tip manages to combine two principles: The built-in checklists feature allows for the latter but not the former.
 * as aforementioned, that Dailies are often more motivating than To-Dos, and
 * the oft-repeated idea that breaking a large task into smaller chunks can help you complete it.

The word "tackle" suggests that you don't have to complete a To-Do, but should have put a reasonable amount of work towards it.

Poisonous Dailies
This tip uses the idea of leveraging Dailies to help complete To-Dos and takes it to the next level. If there is a to-do that you no longer wish to procrastinate on, turn it into a Daily that you can only check upon completion of the task. Until you've completed the task, you will be forced to take damage and cannot achieve a Perfect Day.

Tasks with Different Levels of Difficulty
Certain tasks can be scaled up or down in terms of difficulty. For such tasks, come up with three levels of difficulty and make the easiest a Daily, a harder version a Habit, and a very difficult version (or the completion of your project) a To-Do. For example, you could set up the following Daily:the following Habit:and the following To-Do: