| Time Management: http://xkcd.com/876/ On serious note: Problem: Help me manage what I need to do and motivate me to do it. Issue with every possible solution: there can't be 1-shoe-fits-all. There are various solutions proposed:
1. Have a "done" list - people get motivated by seeing what they get done and feel good about themseleves when they are reocrding what they have done, and feel bad when staring things they need to do . 2. Pair-wise to-do list. Randomly pair a user to a different user and they both use various means to motivate each other and provide means to help each other. This is social interaction and people feel some responsibility to get things done when they have someone to answer to, while others dont want to expose their private life. 3. Bombard the user with notifications on what needs to get done or give user with positive enforcement every hour, in order to motivate the user. There are 2 issues to be addressed: Motivation and organization. If the data is not easily organizable, user dont feel like vesting. If user does not have anything motivating to do those actions, rather than procrastinating, your system is plain doomed. |