5:39 An interesting feature is that If you don't do a task or daily or todo after a while, the ribbon of task will tend to red color, this helps to know which task is missed for longer time

Habitica really helped me and motivated me to do stuff, since all i really do is just play video games. I'm honestly suprised in myself for actually wanting to do things now, and this video explains that really well!

Thumbnail made me think: "Oh lord, this another one of those videos with a bunch of talking and no substance, never getting to the point". Boy way I WRONG. You provided a ton of detailed info and actually helped me. Thank you, stranger.

I'm a simple man. You upload, I watch. I'm that simple.

While Habtica does a lot of cool things, I think it does need an overhaul or a 2.0. Cool elements: Guilds (You can connect to people interested in the same topic and you can just browse and join any guild and converse.) Parties You can have a party wih friends or like minded people. You gain a group chat and the ability to work on quests together. (while questing you damage bosses by doing your tasks and the boss damages the whole group if anyone neglects them. Participation is optional and if you are on a break you can sleep in the guesthouse.) Leveling By doing tasks you get XP and gold. (By neglecting them or doing negative habits you lose HP. XP mean levels which mean more stat points and access to better gear. Gold means you can purchase gear and healing potions. But also custom rewards as you can set "1 episode of show X for 10 Gold" and so on. At the same time, you can set a task to 4 difficulties, which determine the rewarded XP and gold. (This and the fact that you need no proof to tick off a task means cheating is easy, but you are really cheating yourself. Your party does not care about the same level or how long the boss takes, only if they get damage.) Classes All the classes cater to different "play"-styles, which is neat, but also can be harmful. So choose wisely. Warrior: Good attack and defense. Useful for fighting bosses. Is pretty much core mechanics of habitica. Mage: More mana and group support. Helps everyone to do more damage and use skills more often. Levels faster for some reason. Kind of habitica on speed for when you want more level ups. Healer: Stamina and Mana. Can heal hthemselves or the whole party. You can heal yout fuck ups, but you still saw them at least. Ultimately does no damage and helps prevent losing a level due to death sometimes. Rogue: Earn more gold, find more loot. Just cheat, because your skills let you skip tasks and never feel the "punishment". Maybe good for gambling and for people demotivated by HP-loss (but then I just don't have dailies or negative habits, instead of adding more work to using the app and getting in the way of myself). Struggles: Cool quests and gear costs real money (micro-transactions). Way better than having ads, which would be damaging to the whole point. But still, it is sad, that you don't get to play the nicer quests if you don't invest or win challenges regularly. Quests serve no real point. Sometimes there is gear as a reward, but this is just not that interesting. The quests also have no real enticing story. It is basically a pixel art you do damage to (which only mages and warriors do decently) or you have to randomly find something doing tasks (which the rouge is best in, so far as our last quest was soloed by the one we had) To me, this is just not motivating and I could not care less If I am part of the most recent quest or not. Communication is not great. Be it within guilds or parties, you have one chat history (with all damage notices in it too) for the group. You can @someone and respond, but overall the bigger the guild the more meaningless any post and lost any conversation happening over a longer period. This does not further conversation, which is not the main goal (seeing as chatting actually keeps you from other things) but it is a great tool, that keeps you within the app. Most communication of the bigger guilds happenes on discord, where it is also way easier to keep links and info to the different challenges. Easy design makes it actually hard! to use. Habitica is NOT suitable for extensive to do list (How nice, that challenges tend to sometimes add 30 ToDos.). They are not very well sorted, turn red within a short time, even if there is no deadline and automatically give better rewards the longer they are not done, rewarding procrastination or adding them just REALLY early. Sorting them is a nightmare and takes ages. Tagging can help, but is also clunky. Conclusion: A nice idea and nostalgic approach, that does not make great use of psychology, is not highly customizable and ultimately I always lose motivation after a few weeks and rather use my BuJo, that records data forever, does not force the daily habits reset on me, if I forgot to tick off my dailies one day and writing something down feels more like an achievement than the jingle, that I have switched off, cause public? The app is a hit or miss and you need to already be motivated and organized, cause it does not help that much with either. Gving it a try may be great or you just delete the app again and go on with your life.

Thanks for the overview! I just signed up for Habitica today and am feeling the same way about guilds. Also, wow, what a productive cat!

What sets habitica apart from the rest for me, is the social aspect. If it is just me, cheating/ just not doing the things is no problem. But because i know with parties and challenges other player do it correctly, i do not want to cheat. How could i feel good earning a gem challenge if i didn't do it correctly and took it away from someone who did?

This was a really handy explination of the app! I was considering getting it, and this video taught me more than anyone else did.

This video is clean dude ! It helped me a lot going through Habitica and now I enjoy doing every simple task that I hated to do !

I love the subject and execution of your content. It's great stuff that I can't wait to see more of

10/10. Underrated. Subscribed.

Cruel Angel's Thesis as lofi hip hop is not something I knew I needed. Anyways this is a great overview.

I thing the money glitch thing is a non-issue since Habitica can't actually tell if you performed most of the tasks you say you have. It's simply a 'you only lie to yourself' type of situation :D

Bruhhhhh.... No way you used Clannad's Sound track as bgm ... didn't expect that ...damn

It looks perfect! Im gonna use this app now

Thank you for making this video, even a year after, it serves it purpose greatly

You have a very interesting and pleasant presentation of information. Even though I already know about this app, it was all very interesting to listen to you. You deserve a lot more subscribers and views)

This video is fabulous. Thank you

You are the best😊❤

I noticed a part of the video has a version of black catcher as the background music. epic

This mix of A Cruel Angel's Thesis in the end feels appropriate.

I really like this video. Very well!

My guy this is quality content!!!

Need more videos on habitica please

nice work. subscribed.

Thank you! Btw; I watched it all but I forgot about the stats part and now I cannot find it! Can someone point me to that direction please? *-*

2:48 It will only work for infinite drops because gold and XP will be instantly removed if you uncheck a daily

How to sell the items? It doesn't seems working when I'm doing it

That Lofi Evangelion theme was dope.

I hear Clannad remixes in the background 🥹

Just.....thank you And I like it

I haven’t used Habitica since like 2016 . Not sure why I fell off (I didn’t use it for that long) but seeing the updates and how other ppl use it , has definitely given me insight to try again with different approach and to utilize all features. Definitely taking notes, thank you for the video Back then I was struggling with less , now I’m managing with more responsibility and can’t wait to see how I can use this to further my goals. I missed playing video games , I am scared of getting sucked into them so I avoid them cause they make me paranoid that I’m wasting time and become lazy. But this app makes productivity into a game basically so no holding back for me :) Btw love all the comments

The quality of your videos are really good!

This app is brilliant!

\thanks for a great video. are you still using habitca? is there alternative apps that you think are better or equal?

Thanks for this video. Do you (or does anyone) have recommendations of alternative apps or is habitica the best?

😍😍

I started using Habitica a few days ago, and it’s been insanely helpful already! Your video helped me to get a better grasp on the program. I’ve currently only used the app, which has been an excellent tool for me as an autistic person. It makes me feel like tasks have meaning, which is something I’m desperately missing in my life right now. I also found Obsidian through your channel! I just started using it today and I’m already entranced. I’m considering buying the sync subscription in order to have my vault on my phone, too. I’m also using the IMF system. Do you think it’s worth the money? Apologies for this being somewhat off-topic.

Where did you find the evangelion music?

cute cat

Do you still use Habitica? Do you incorporate GTD into Habitica? If so, how?

2000th Like.

I just realized that the music in the background is anime openings in a lo-fi style. By the way, that cat is both adorable and productive! :3

malevolentus habiticus maledictus💀

11:27 this background song is Black Catcher by Vickeblanka but in another version. What version? is there any youtube link? I'd love to chill and study listening this. Soooo good

Its a fun app. Im looking for some ideas. The interface takes some getting used to.

Fukashigi no carte on the background tho

I've been using it for years and it has definitely helped a bit. I recommend anyone trying it out to consider the different options for setting up Tasks and how you might perceive interacting with them. I had for ages set it up from the angle of what i *should* be doing so i hadn't ever used Negative Habits. But now i realize that it gets the message home much better to have to manually own up to having done something.. suboptimal. For me it's much easier to just gloss over not picking up the Positive Habit of "didn't stay in bed to check sites on the phone". I'm much better at conducting myself such that i don't have to click on the Negative Habit of "*did* stay in bed with the phone".

It looks wayy too complicated. After studying, I don't exactly want to spend a bunch of time on reddit and wikis, trying to figure out how to use Habitica as well.

Do u know why they removed guilds?

Is that lofi black catcher

Eyo this video is epic, supa smooth. You still using Habitica?

12:30 neon genesis OST?

I admire you for making videos about productivity but I can't seem to finish this video because it keeps on moving, I felt kind of dizzy.

I'm curious, are you still using this?

Oh my god, this looks like a rabbit hole and way too time consuming for me.

Combine it with atomic habits and D&D

The more i try to learn how to use these apps, the bigger the task becomes.

5:31 you earn more rewards but you lose more rewards? Huh??

LifeUp will do this thing better than Habitica, trust me

too much bass in the voiceover

Are you still playing this game?

this is a petty thing but i really can't stand the font they use lol

Myy good your Workflow of doing things seems neurotic to me ^^ No offense =)