Credit server for self tracking

[Daniel]

Here's an idea: issue currency for things like foods, exercise, and acts
of kindness. You can define your rules for issuing, then go ahead with
the issue. You can trade your resources like other currencies, for
example you could trade five sweet-food points for a
skip-a-day-of-exercise point. Forget notebooks and spreadsheets, put it
in an awesome credit server!

[Jeffrey Cliff]

Personally I think this cheapens acts of kindness.  That being said, I think there is still room for ripple in this area -- acts of kindness basically get to be more important, more rare( as everyone has credit to eachother and shouldn't need it).  But it shouldn't be used to *track* them.
jeff

[Daniel]

I've started playing with credit for a bit of personal improvement using
Rain Droplet. With a very simple setup which anyone could do quickly and
easily, I made two connected nodes: one for my commitments and actions
and so on, the other for my goals or lessons. Credit limits allow the
balance to fluctuate between me feeling indebted to my practice or me
feeling entitled to indulge myself. I first paid a sign-up fee from my
actions to my goals to get the ball rolling, in exchange for a set of
reward options for doing certain actions. Of my list of actions, I've
been working on little universal ones to start, such as reminding myself
to smile and breathe throughout the day. So far I've earned a few
practice bucks, which I'm thinking of spending on improved menu options,
and I feel that the practice has actually improved my mood. Not sure
about my productivity, though. :)

[Daniel Reeves]

I love this way of thinking. I've tried to do things like this but
have always found the accounting (or, rather, just the data entry) too
cumbersome.
I'm now working on something simpler for self-tracking and behavior
modification: beeminder.com
For time-based goals I do this: messymatters.com/tagtime
(Sorry this is getting a bit far afield from Ripple!)

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