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I have always wanted a simple way of tracking habits — and I don't know why it took so long to come out with an app like this for the iPhone.
Now that I've found this one, which is called the Done App, I'm never letting go because it's perfect. It's very easy to track any goal or habit (mine are all filled with emojis), and you can track streaks, view trends over time, and get a lot of data.
When you tap to say you've done a certain habit for that day, you get a satisfying little buzz from your phone. I also like the colors of the app, and it all works very smoothly. If you only use it to track three habits, it's free; otherwise, it's $4.99.
(It has an Apple Watch component, but I have yet to figure that out!)
This is a great improvement over my habit tracker chart that I posted in a New Year's resolutions thread a long time ago!
So, do tell: What do you use for tracking habits? Done App
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anon
How do you deal with feeling mediocre? It’s currently brought on by a rough period at work, which I’m generally super good at and this particular rough patch isn’t my fault. And I have a clear path forward on fixing it. I also notice that feeling super mediocre is something that I just struggle with, and it’s not just with regards to work. How do others deal with this?
Eve
I just keep in mind that I am good at other things. I can’t be the best at everything I do.
Anonymous
Take comfort in the fact that LOTS of people are mediocre at their jobs.
Lana Del Raygun
I like Loop Habit Tracker (Android, idk if there’s an Apple version), which is free and has no ads. You can set reminder notifications (and prevent yourself from dismissing them without marking the item done), and it also keeps track of streaks etc.
Anonymous
I’m super annoyed. Any advice? I work at a tiny company and I started in January. Other than my boss I am the only full-time employee. We have another person use our office space a few hours a day, 2 days a week. This person doesn’t even work for us, they just use our office space. Our office space has 2 offices, a conference room, and a general main open room. My desk is in the main room and I hate it. People think I’m a secretary because I sit near the door. There’s no privacy or noise reduction. My boss has one of the offices. The other one is being used by the part-time person for a few hours a week but mostly sits empty. I have been talking to my boss for awhile now about using the spare office myself and the part-time person using the main room or even the conference room if they wanted. I even cleaned out the spare office and had a phone line installed there for me because I thought we were moving forward with this. My boss was positive at first but now is giving me a bunch of spin, BS, vague answers. I don’t know why but I hate it. I hate that he can’t follow through on the one thing I’ve asked him.
What are my options here? Continuing to present him the very good and valid reasons I should be in that office? Letting him think about it? Sit here seething resentfully?
Anonymous
Who owns the building? As in, did your boss promise this tenant that they could have the office for $X per month? If that’s not a concern, would you feel comfortable approaching tenant and asking if they’d mind if you took over the office since you’re having trouble concentrating in the open space?
Anonymous
That’s the thing….they contribute nothing. We pay the rent. It’s a long story as to why but yeah. That’s a good idea, I can ask them what they think.
Anonymous
If you’re the only other full time person there, maybe your boss wants you to be doing some of the office manager-type tasks like greeting people who arrive/accepting deliveries/whatever . . .
OP
That’s not a part of my job though. But people treat me like a secretary because of where I sit. I’ve had people talk down to me and ask me to make them coffee. It sucks.
Anonymous
What I’m saying is that you don’t think it’s part of your job, but it sounds like maybe your boss does?
Anonymous
Yes, sadly. I remember being the most junior person on a team and even though my job definitely did not include administrative assistant duties (we had admins), my boss still somehow thought that I was responsible for coffee.
Anonymous
+1 – Does someone need to be there to greet visitors/appointments? If boss decides it’s not them, then it’s you by default.
Torin
Honestly, I think you have to drop it. He’s not failing to follow through on something he owes you, he’s saying no to a request you’ve made. The way he’s saying it sounds annoyingly non-definitive, but he’s saying it all the same.
Fee Tail, y'all!
Property law is such a dry, dry concept. How do you explain it? How can you show how an idea has unintended consequences? On my own, I can think of frothy soap operas. They don’t involve property law.
ENTER Downton Abbey (I know, I am late to the game on this). The whole plot, for seasons, needs an antiquated property law concept (the fee tail) to make it even plausible. This is real! And real property law! And it is awesome!
Other than what Body Heat did for the Rule Against Perpetuities, what else is there of the property-law-made-interesting genre? Or any other dry legal thing made interesting?
[I used to rely on old Law & Order for my 4th amendment jurisprudence — does anyone else remember a winded Lenny Briscoe walking up stairs saying that they were pursuing a felon in flight?]
AIMS
I think My Cousin Vinny is great for evidence.
Lana Del Raygun
IT’S CAWLED DISCLOZHA
Anonymous
Two come to mind:
There’s a documentary about the artwork currently at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. It explains the Cy Pres doctrine better than my trusts and estates class ever did.
There’s the fact that Hugh Hefner kept a life estate when he sold the playboy mansion.
Anonymous
re the life estate, I had no idea
how do you know this? who would take that deal (I thought he’d live forever)? what sort of discount to FMV did that involve?
I guess it would be a recordable interest. And in California, how do you do prop 13 on that? Did Hef’s taxes go up? I guess the life estate pays the taxes (and has a duty not to commit waste — that I do remember from property class).
Anonymous
I don’t know about the recordable interest. It was part of the original discussions surrounding the sale. Here’s a link briefly discussing it.
https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/hugh-heffners-mansion-for-sale-with-one-huge-string-attached/
Granted, I don’t know how how it was finally documented, but I think for teaching purposes it would be a great modern example to point to.
Anonymous
As a now real estate lawyer, who hated law school property law, there’s some value to using the old standards. I reference the mythical bundle of sticks when dealing with opposing counsel and title company underwriters- it’s a useful metaphor. Law students have groused about Blackacre for hundreds of years.
Anonymous
Ha!
I use the bundle of sticks all the time and I’m a tax lawyer, yo
Anonymous
I mean, I read enough historical romance with a plethora of dukes that entailed estates (fee tail and primogeniture, yay!) was already a known issue. That’s why they had to marry heiresses, since they couldn’t sell the estates.
Anonymous
I knew about primogeniture b/c that’s why Jamestown was rife with second (and subsequent) sons of nobility (who has no skillz; it’s not like they were brought up to farm or do anything useful, hence Jamestown Settlement’s Starving Time. It’s like people only came here b/c there were no opportunities for them in the old country, starting at the very beginning.
I’m also thinking that you couldn’t really mortgage a fee tail (or life estate). I mean, how do you foreclose on it? [BUT WAIT! I’ve seen Double Indemnity –> you give the mortgage but you also take out a life insurance policy on the life tenant / current tail person’s life! I could be the next Agatha Christie!]
Anonymous
I’d think you could totally mortgage a life estate. You’d just pay for it with a huge interest rate to cover the risk and likely have to get the consent of the fee holder. Doesn’t make a lot of business sense as a lender so I don’t think you’re going to see it come up a lot, but I’m sure someone out there would do it.
C2
I think you’re already on the path to success by being self-aware of the issue and having a plan. Measure and count little wins. As you work towards specific goals, recognize the progress you’ve made to get there. Do things in your personal life that make you happy, everyone’s happiness is different and it doesn’t have to be a competition. If you can be employed and content with things outside work, let that be enough for now.
C2
Oops, this was in reply to anon at 3:03.
Horse Crazy
How do you prepare for interviews? In my last few interviews, I feel like I’ve over-prepared the questions I want to ask them, and like I haven’t spent enough time preparing to answer questions. I’m mostly applying to higher ed institutions and nonprofits. I feel like I’ve been getting caught off guard by questions that should be easy to answer, and I always think of better answers after the interview. Any advice?
Anonymous
I googled a list of common interview questions and wrote out answers to most of them. I also spend time looking at the organization’s website and materials so I know who they are, and make a list of questions for them. (That’s my weaker point). Ask A Manager used to also have a guide to preparing you could download.
Anonymous
I feel like dealing with difficulty is a big one (I am also in this world of applying to nonprofits and higher ed). So it will be how did you deal with difficult coworkers, people who were holding up a project of yours, any “special” donors or volunteers you dealt with. Some of mine have come down to – do you put the students/clients first. Maybe think of your worst, most stressful times, most difficult people you worked with, and make a nice concise story around those?
K
Two things: First, I google questions. A really popular interview style is the STAR method and most of the interviews I’ve had in my industry (engineering) have been in that format. There are tons of practice questions online for HR type questions.
Second, think about questions you’ve gotten in similar interviews and think about what you would say differently. This is your chance to do better! I like to write down some bullet points in my notebook/folder so that I can make sure I tell them everything I wanted about myself and my experience.
Sometimes there’s always an interview question that catches you off guard. It happens, and you move on. Good luck!!
Anonymous
Kind of random, but think of some books, movies and TV you’ve recently enjoyed. I’ve sometimes been very caught off guard by “what’s your favorite movie” or “what are you reading lately?” I read a lot and enjoy watching movies but for some reason when I get these questions my mind goes blank or the thing that pops into my head isn’t super appropriate/a subject I really want to discuss with interviewers, so I try to think of neutral answers to these questions before interviews.
Anonymous
This is a good one. It shows that you’re a real person. And don’t get too caught up in finding the “right” answer – if you like sci-fi, great! The only genre I wouldn’t mention would be romance novels.
Anonymous
I’d go with a non-fiction book/documentary, or something work related, if I’ve read it in the last couple years (I’m interpreting recently broadly).
I also think it’s a lazy interview question.
Anonymous
It might be lazy, but it can trip someone up if they’re unprepared. And I think most people would want to be able to come up with a better answer than RHONY (although TBH, I might say that I recently watched Nailed It! on Netflix because that show is the best).
C
I find a list of questions using the STAR method or similar, add things relevant to my profession to it, and ask a friend to sit down and interview me. Having to actually answer the questions out loud forces me to talk through questions that I’d otherwise gloss over when thinking about potential answers. It helps if you have a friend who can be stone-faced or intimidating so they give you no encouragement and no response while you’re answering!
Betsy
I have a job interview tomorrow, and I’m wearing a black suit. It just occurred to me that I don’t have great options for matching shoes. I have black heels, but I haven’t worn any heels in years – I never went back to them after a knee injury. I usually wear navy or grey, so I have a nice pair of dark navy pumps. Do I wear the black heels I’m not super comfortable walking in, the navy pumps, or do I need to go shoe shopping tonight?
Anonymous
Do you have maybe burgundy? Even nude or camel might look ok especially as it’s summer.
Torin
I’d head to my local DSW or Target and get a pair of interview appropriate flats rather than risk wearing shoes I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to walk in.
These, for example: https://www.dsw.com/en/us/product/mix-no.-6-rowland-flat/420316?activeColor=002
Anonymous
I probably wouldn’t wear navy shoes with a black suit, as it could look like you didn’t realize they didn’t match (vice versa seems fine though and I’m at loss to explain the difference, but it’s there). I’d probably go shopping tonight if I were you. Or wear a different shoe that looks more specifically like it’s supposed to coordinate, not match (oxblood, the gray you mention depending on the shade, or even a camel color).
Anonymous
black shoes with navy suit are okay, because black is a more common/typical color for shoes than navy is.
Anonymous
Could you wear a top with navy in the print or trim so this looks intentional?
Anonymous
Off topic, but what is the difference between heels and pumps? Ive always used those interchangeable
Anonymous
pumps are a type of heels. heels could include sandals, wedges, boots, etc- pumps are very specific type of heels. also, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=heels+vs+pumps
Office phone
Am I being unreasonable?
My office uses those Cisco IP phones that are ubiquitous. I would like a way to turn the ringer off and on. I know it’s entirely possible because the online documentation for this phone includes it as an option, but apparently my firm never set up this function. If I take the phone off the hook, it just goes to my second line and still rings. There’s some reason involving network connectivity that prevents me from just unplugging the whole thing.
Is it weird if I escalate this above the first IT person who told me no? It’s just the oddest thing because I thought it would be very simple and is, in fact, not simple at all.
For context– I’m a midlevel in a large law firm. I have both work-related (concentration) and personal (first trimester naps) reasons to make the request, although obviously the second reason is a secret right now.
Anonymous
I can turn the volume down on my Cisco IP phone so that there is no audible ring – can you not do that?
Office phone
Nope, it will go down to a low volume but not totally off.
Anon in NYC
I think this is unreasonable to escalate this. It’s not like is enabled for everyone but you – your firm never enabled this feature. And I’m not sure that I would want to explain those reasons to a partner. You can turn the volume all the way down and put in earplugs if it’s truly necessary.
Diana Barry
+1. Also, bring in some thick tape and put it over the speaker – I did that on my phone and it really cuts down on the volume.
mascot
Is the Do Not Disturb feature not available? Could you turn the volume on the ringer way down and ask your assistant to answer your phone?
Office phone
Yeah, DND is the feature they never set up for reasons I don’t really understand. The assistant thing is a good idea when she’s around (she works shortened hours).
mascot
I can’t hear my phone with earplugs/ earbuds in and the volume turned all the way down. You could also forward your phone to your cell phone and put that on mute, but this seems like a bigger pain than it is worth
Anonymous
The reason DND wasn’t set up was so that people couldn’t avoid calls. I see both sides, but your company obviously decided that it didn’t want it. Leave it be.
Anonymous
+1 to DND.
Anonymous
Why are you so special you can’t handld your phone ringing?
Anonymous
Somebody needs a blood sugar boost!
Anonymous
I’ve been pregnant and I know first trimester exhaustion is real, but it’s wildly inappropriate to turn off your office phone so you can sleep at work.
Anonymous
Don’t escalate.
Batbara
You need to live with it as it applies to everyone. They expect you to answer the phone. That is customer favorable. Unless you really need to concentrate, be prepared to be responsive and answer your phone. I had a similar issue and lived with it for 2 years until I got engaged. A week later, I discovered I was pregnant and I quit my job. ?
Anonymous
I was surprised by the discussion on this morning thread about yelling – do people think it’s really that big a deal? I was raised by parents who occasionally yelled at each other and at me when I deserved it. I would never describe them as abusive, they were very loving and supportive parents and they never would have dreamed of physical punishment, even spanking (which was pretty common in our area in the 80s). DH and I occasionally yell when we get mad. Full-on screaming is rare, but we definitely raise our voices at each other pretty regularly when one of us gets annoyed. It’s surprising to me that so many people don’t. Do you not fight with your spouses? Or do you just fight, but in a very calm, happy tone of voice?
Anonymous
My husband and I rarely fight and when we do, neither one of us raises our voice. We just talk in a kind of annoyed tone? I can’t imagine my husband yelling at me (I can imagine myself yelling at him although I’ve never done it!)
Anonymous
I was also surprised. I don’t have yelling fights with my spouse or kids, but I definitely have yelled/exclaimed at them both. Usually in exactly the same kind of situation as this morning’s description – something potentially dangerous is happening or just happened and I yell at them by way of exclamation (“what are you doing!?” “what did you just do!!” sometimes including an expletive if it’s my spouse). Obviously circumstances matter, but I don’t consider that abusive.
Anonymous
Yes, this. Safety is the time when it is ok to yell, IMO. And no, my husband and I don’t fight. I think I’ve raised my voice only once, and it was during a really stressful time generally and right after a 2.5 hour commute.
Anonymous
My parents were yellers and occasionally physically abusive. I hated the yelling and think it really stunted my ability at a young age to managing my emotions or handle conflicts/problems without resorting to anger and yelling. I lost friends over it because nobody wants to hang out with that person who totally loses her cool and fights dirty (learned skill from my parents). I had to teach myself how to have constructive disagreements and arguments. I think my husband’s parents occasionally yelled, but not frequently.
My spouse and I don’t often fight, even about big things, but when we do we don’t really raise our voices or scream at each other. We don’t use calm happy tones either, but we generally value not-yelling at each other as much as possible.
cbackson
This varies a lot from family to family. I think there are two primary areas of difference:
-Families where people yell and families where they don’t.
I came from a non-yelling family. Slightly raised voices and angry tone – yes. Yelling – no. By contrast, one of my best friends and her husband full on yell at each other whenever they’re mad, and that’s just how they operate.
-What’s okay to say in a fight, and what isn’t.
In my family, saying “You’re an idiot” (as the OP says her husband did) would have been completely, 100% beyond the pale. And even if you come from a family where yelling is okay, that doesn’t mean that name-calling is acceptable. It sounds like yelling isn’t off-limits for the OP and her husband, but since he apologized, I’m guessing that the name-calling bit was probably beyond what’s normal and acceptable in their relationship.
Diana Barry
+1. My husband and I would never, ever, EVER yell at each other, same in our families of origin.
However, I do have to yell at the kids a lot of times, because they just DO NOT LISTEN until I do – think “put on your shoes” >> “Put on your shoes, we have to leave in 5 minutes” >> “PUT ON YOUR SHOES” (and only the last one has any effect!).
cbackson
Yeah, I think my parents yelled at me in that way when I was a kid, but they didn’t actually yell at me when I was in trouble.
Anonymous
Honestly, my family often sort of yells even when they are getting along (they have a loud volume and often talk things out as if they were arguing–it’s silence that indicates serious negative feelings). There’s a big difference in my mind between drawing an assertive boundary or pushing back proportionately to a situation vs. actual, threatening anger.
Think of household pets: There is a big, visceral difference between your own angry cat or dog giving a “Hey I didn’t like that!” response (say, when pilled or having its nails clipped) vs. a strange cat or dog that is actually enraged and threatening you.
OTTH, I am very sensitive to yelling in cars (the driver who almost just killed us cannot hear the angry man yelling, but I can!), so I understand just having nerves that cannot take big, loud men in some settings.
Anonymous
I yell at my kids sometimes. I am trying to not do that though. I never yell at my husband and he never yells at me. We do fight with each other but we don’t yell. We talk things out, sometimes I give him the silent treatment (not proud of this, but just being honest), and sometimes he storms out and slams the door behind him (also not proud he does this, but just being honest.) He doesn’t usually leave, but just goes to the garage to cool off and organize his tools haha.
Anonymous
No. We are Southern Genteel and never raise our voices. Totally serious. There’s never a reason to be uncivil. Sorry you northern types don’t understand. Yes, it is abusive.
Anonymous
Wait, what? I’m southern and come from a southern family and we yell. It’s not a regional thing necessarily.
Diana Barry
+1. Think of New England WASPs!
Anonymous
I mean, that was obviously a tr0ll post.
Anonymous
OP – nope
Anonymous
If only!
Anonymous
OP, doesn’t matter if you think it is or isn’t, you’re still being a tr0ll!
Anon
“There’s never a reason to be uncivil. Sorry you northern types don’t understand. Yes, it is abusive.”
If there’s never a reason to be uncivil, maybe you need to have not typed out those last two sentences.
But I’ve never understood the habit of a minority of Southerners have, of promoting one’s own politeness by being rude to those rom other parts of America.
Anonymous
Omigoodness. Where are you from? I grew up in the South taking ballroom dancing lessons and etiquette classes then lived in the Midwest as an adult. From my perspective, the majority of the screaming mothers reside in the Southeastern U.S. And I’m not even sure why since these mothers mostly did not work and had full time housekeepers who also kept children.
Lana Del Raygun
When we fight it’s in an angry tone and/or a somewhat raised voice, but not full-blown yelling. That seems really aggressive to me. I 100% would not hold this kind of “yelling in the immediate aftermath of a crisis” against anyone, though.
Torin
There’s a gray area maybe between your normal inside voice and yelling at the top of your lungs where I live when I’m annoyed/angry with spouse. Raising your voice a bit and having an annoyed/angry tone when you’re upset is normal, to me. Full-on top-of-your-lungs shouting and name-calling is not an acceptable way to argue or deal with feelings, to me. It maybe happens sometimes and might be forgivable in a given set of circumstances, but as a default way of dealing with conflict it’s not acceptable.
Anonymous
My parents screamed insults, and there was domestic violence growing up. My mom also screamed at my siblings and I after my parents divorced. It was extremely unhealthy, and I often felt like I walked on eggshells to avoid setting my parents off. I intentionally refuse to yell insults at my partner and will not yell and scream at any future children. Yelling if someone doesn’t listen is one thing. Yelling “YOU IDIOT”, as in this morning’s thread, is another. I do not want that from a partner as I had enough of it growing up.
Ouch! That hurts
+1,000,000
can’t take being in social gatherings at the homes of others where yelling angrily is the norm …
Anon
I come from a family of yellers. It’s just what we do – no one is offended by it, no one’s feelings are hurt, it’s just normal (and there are definitely rules about what can and cannot be said (yelled)). We yell up and down the stairs to each other, yell when we’re happy, yell when we’re angry (my childhood home was and is very loud). It has been an adjustment with my husband who most definitely does not come from a family of yellers (false – because I totally hear his parents yelling at each other now, but he says that is old-age related and they didn’t yell at each other when he was kid – and furthermore, even if they’re quiet about it, they are MEAN) and is very, very, very conflict-avoidant. I much prefer yelling to the passive aggressive nonsense my mother employs – as I like to tell my husband, when I am upset, there is no doubting what I am upset about. Moral of the story is I make a conscious effort to yell less because it bothers him, and he’s making an effort to actually engage in conflict more (yelling or otherwise, but just engage). I was SO PROUD when my husband yelled at me for something the other day (hurrying him out the door I think it was) rather than just sitting on his feelings and stewing.
Senior Attorney
My former husband yelled at me and I yelled back. I hated it and I swore “never again” once I got out of that.
My current husband and I don’t fight. No snarky remarks, no raised voices, no nothing. Occasionally we disagree but we talk it out and get on with things. I love it.
Southern Genteel
See – instant cred because SA agrees with me!
wtf ever
What if she’s northern? Did you just disprove your post?
Senior Attorney
Haha I’m in So Cal. So I guess if we divide the world into “Southern” and “Northern,” I’m Northern!
DLC
My husband and I yell more than I would care to admit. What I often find interesting, though, is that it bothers me a lot more than it bothers him. His parents fought, bickered, yelled, pulled passive aggressive mind games. My parents never fought in front of us- it was always hushed voices after we were in bed. Anyhow, whenever I say to my husband , “I think we fight too much”, his response is “My parents fought too much. I think we do a normal amount of fighting.”
Anonymous
There are a couple of distinctions here that are getting lost.
1. There’s a difference between raising your voice vs. name calling. OP’s husband called her stupid. Repeatedly. That’s disrespectful and, yes, abusive.
2. Just because someone uses abusive language once doesn’t make them An Abuser or turn your relationship into An Abusive Relationship. People do and say stupid things. Sometimes even abusive things. But non-abusers sincerely apologize and don’t make a habit of it.
3. I think people are assuming that because his behavior was forgivable, it wasn’t that bad. That’s just not true. Yelling, you’re stupid, at someone is Real Bad. It’s also the sort of thing that I think most couples will forgive each other for over the course of a marriage. No one is perfect etc. But that doesn’t make the behavior nbd. It’s OK to admit that something is real bad but you’d forgive your spouse for it anyway.
Anonymous
“People say and do stupid things.” “Yelling, you’re stupid, at someone is Real Bad.” Personally, if I’m being stupid, I can handle being told so.
Anon
There’s a lot of yelling in my house but not a lot of name calling, unless you count my kids calling each other names. My husband was raised in a yelling culture (yes, yelling can be ethnic/cultural) and the kids and I have picked it up. I don’t think the kids are traumatized by it in the least – I see them ignoring my husband most of the time when he raises his voice. The neighbors must hate us though.
so embarrassed
Welp, I just split the back seam of my MMLF dress all the way up. It wasn’t even tight at all. Absolutely mortifying.
Anon
OMG that’s awful. I have heard that they will replace but that doesn’t make up for the mortification.
Anonymous
Email them. This sounds like a quality issue. They paid for my pants to be repaired when the hem fell out after one wash (on delicate). Like $35 credit to me.
Elaine
It is embarrassing. There was a silver lining in my case because when this happened to me I met a guy who gave me his poncho. He is now my husband!
Strawberry Acai
I probably sound like a broken record, but most of the MMLF items I purchased last year had a problem with the stiching — hems fell and the stiching that holds the lining of a shirt in place came undone. I’ve also had more pilling that I would have expected on their skirts. I’ve been tempted to buy from them, but stories like this keeps me away from them. This is a known issue with their stuff — why aren’t they addressing it?
And I did report my issues to MMLF and they did offer me a credit and reimbursed me for the repairs. It’s a shame, because I like the style of their clothes, but the quality is lacking.
Anon
On the contrary just for a counter example, I have three dresses, four skirts and several tops from them and have had zero problems. YMMV I guess.
I also hand wash everything. I don’t really dry clean any of my wardrobe.
Brittany Constable
A little late to the party (my Feedly backlog is pretty intense at the moment) but I’ve been using Habitica for several months and I love it. It’s set up like a video game, so good habits or completing tasks gives you XP, gold, and loot, and bad habits or missing daily tasks does damage. You can also put together a party and go on quests, where tasks and habits also do damage to bosses. And when you’re in a boss fight, those missed dailies do damage to your entire party. It’s got the right mix of accountability and rewards to keep me using it every day, which is probably the biggest issue with any task system. It works like many free-to-play games, where there are two different types of currency and one costs actual money (either on a per-gem basis or a subscription). The nice thing is that the benefits you get from spending actual money are all cosmetic, so it still works perfectly well if you don’t spend anything. I recommend it to all my nerdy friends.