MyLifeMotivated ideas

[Jonathan Waller]

I thought of an idea for MyLifeMotivated.

It's a plugin for MyLifeOrganised, and allows you to race, trying to complete tasks, against a "ghost" player. Trick is, the ghost player is you, exactly one week ago.

You can't cheat by making lots of mini tasks since that will make it super hard for you next week!

Maybe we can show the two opponents next to each other in a graphical way. Cars? Runners?

Just a thought.

[CTenorman]

I think It's genius! why doesn't someone start a kickstarter for this
and if enough money is raised then it could be developed as a game add-
on! I'd certainly buy it!

[Fletcher Kauffman]

I had put in a post about something like this a long time ago-- MLO's
big failing against Life Balance (for example), is that it has no
gamic element. Adding points to tasks to be completed (Life Balance,
for example, weighs a task based on its self-assessed "effort") allows
the player to accumulate points and get feedback about how they
performing overall.

The beauty of Life Balance is that it then used this feedback to nudge
the user into working in other areas of their life.

It pains me that MLO doesn't have something similar-- there is so much
behavior and motivation research done to make games work and to not
apply those simple principles is to entirely overlook what makes the
difference between a tool and an activity.

I had not thought of doing a ghost player (which works well in
exercise software)-- it could be made to work.