so there's this HabitRPG challenge: how does HabitRPG help me scholastically?

HabitRPG, if you haven't heard, is a to-do list and helper to form positive habits and break negative ones, formatted like a role-playing game. Apparently Rogues like me are Vampire Smiters this autumn, judging by the autumn set of limited edition gear. (I like the pirate look better, so I'm hanging on to the summer limited edition gear.) You set up Habits that you want to form or kick, Dailies that you need to do every day, one-off To-Dos, and Rewards (some of which are set up for you, like the gear). Click a plus on a Habit, check off a Daily or a To-Do, and you get gold, experience points, and possibly a drop (an egg or a hatching potion—don't ask me why foxes and cacti hatch from eggs, or why they require a potion to do so—or a piece of food; I haven't figured out the food yet, except that none of my successfully hatched pets like anything I've given them so far). Click a minus on a Habit or miss a Daily (that is, fail to check it off by local midnight, or whenever you have cron set to—mine's one am, because I get off work midnight most weekdays and don't want to log in to HabitRPG at work) and you lose health points. Lose enough health points and you die, losing all your gold, a piece of gear, and a level; gain enough experience points and you gain a level. Gold is for acquiring Rewards, or when necessary health potions (restore 15 HP, sold for 25 GP).

Right now I have eighteen To-Dos that begin with the two or three letters indicating which class it's for. There will be more when my fourth class becomes available on Blackboard. (So many more. I've had this teacher before. I have one To-Do for each chapter I need to read this week for another class; for this class, I will need to read a whole book a week.) Term doesn't even start till Monday and I've already checked off I think four of my scholastic To-Dos this term. I also maintain a do_it list, but that's less rewarding: the list is 'this is how much I have yet to do' and, while my HabitRPG To-Do list is a mile long and mostly dark red (I keep procrastinating on things like 'clean room' and that thirty-day art challenge I joined), it's a lot more 'this is how much I will gain when I do these things'. The do_it list also doesn't change color to tell me I'm getting to a thing too slowly, which makes HabitRPG more helpful than the list because I'm bad at getting my work in on time and that reddening of the To-Do reminds me I need to get the thing done ASAP.

HabitRPG's main use for me, though, is the Dailies. I'm bad at remembering things like my calcium pills and fish oil capsules. I look at the Dailies list and I'm reminded to take them. Or I miss one of those Dailies and get ouched for it and the next day I remember fine. Also, there are so many things I need to practice daily for personal and professional health and for building artistic skill. Like, right now I owe HabitRPG morning stretches, reading, writing, yarn art, visual art, updating my professional social media, and Duolingo. I'm thinking about adding a meditation Daily. (I am aware that I may be overloading myself here.)

What makes HabitRPG appeal to me more than the previous habit-forming helper thinger I was using (I don't even remember the name) is the game factor and the volume of things I can list as need-to-do or need-to-do-daily without having to pay money. (I do plan to subscribe to HabitRPG, on the principle that if I like a thing I should feed it money, but my emergency fund took a major hit from the ER visit the other month and I really shouldn't anything that costs money until I've got that built back up.) The previous thing wasn't any help scholastically, anyway, because the only category it had was daily things, the only reward it had was length of streak, and iirc I could only put in one daily at a time without having to pay money. I got an impressive streak on 'write a hundred words', but that's the best I can say about it.

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I archeried! I think my best score was nine points (center circle is five, innermost ring four, and so on out), and I got in the innermost ring three times (once was right on the edge of the center circle), and I'm told my stance improved dramatically over the three, three and a half hours we were shooting. I also shot a couple arrows wide of the, the thing the target is stuck to, and very nearly lost them entirely (even though bright red arrows) because they hit the ground at a shallow enough angle they went under the grass. I shot many arrows wide of the thing, actually, but those two were notable because of the time it took to find them again.

Company was entertaining. It was the host and two other SCAdians and me, and they're all three old enough their kids are early thirties, but they have some excellent stories.