There are so many apps designed to gamify life. I started to lose track of how many of them exist. I would like to have everything listed in one place. Every comment in this post should be about a different app (or some plugin like template for Notion). It should have a name + link where to get it. Additional info can be provided in the inner comments. Edit: there is a lot of them missing - I will be trying keep it updated.

I didn't particularly like the game I created for myself in January (see this post). I decided this time to try game desinged by somebody else: that is BuJoRPG (see this post). The biggest difference is that I don't want to have physical journal (I have dysgraphia so it would be ugly) but use Obsidian instead as you can see in attached photos. The goal of the game is to regularly work on most important pieces that make the community grow: content, social media posts/videos, talking with people and working on different game designs. I will see in next days how the game works for me. I consider also adding big rewards for levelling up - something that is missing in the initial BuJoRPG game design).

If you take a look at how people manage their productivity you can see that they typically use: - TODO Lists (e.g. Todoist) - Habit Trackers (e.g. Way of Life) - Metric Trackers (e.g. exist.io) - Calendars (e.g. Google Calendar) - Pomodoro/Focus timers (e.g. Forest) I distinguish two base types of gamification in productivity: - Tasks Gamification - Metric Gamification Habit is a specific type of a metric (they are boolean true/false metrics). However you can also view them as a repetitive task to be done every day. Calendar appointments are tasks with a start/end time set. Pomodoro/Focus timer is just an efficient time metric that takes into consideration that the brain requires breaks after some time of intense focus. Tasks: - Resembles "Quests" in a computer game. - There is a Definition of Done - They can have a deadline - They can have a difficulty/importance set - They can be compounded: be a set of other tasks Metrics: - They have a value attached. This value can be time, number of repetitions, weight, energy, some kind of score etc. The value is typically an integer, a real value or (in case of habits) a boolean value. - They have a default (typically zero) value that is set if nothing was done. - They need to be updated repetitively (in case of gamification of life it has to typically happen on a daily basis). I will go deeply into topics of tasks and metrics because they are crucial concepts that permeate everything related to gamifying life. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 - 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡'𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡.