Everyday Systems

Anyone using this site?

http://dontbreakthechain.com/ - kind of like a simplified(!) habitcal.

Nice app!

But like simply counting "days on habit" it has a significant weakness: tremendous demoralization when/if you do break the chain. HabitCal is a little more failure resilient.

Reinhard

Apparently it is the system Jerry Seinfeld uses to keep motivated to work on writing new material.

I think it's probably more suited for habits that involve training yourself to do something once a day, which you can squeeze in at the end of the day in order to avoid failing, rather than habits involving NOT doing something, such as No S, where a failure is a failure and there's no way to rectify it later in the day.

However, I really like the interface, and you can embed it in a blog or an iGoogle page, which are both useful features; and there's slightly less clicking than the habitcal. So I'm giving it a shot for a while!

Not that I don't love the habitcal, of course...

you can embed it in a blog or an iGoogle page,

Yeah... I have to figure out how to widgetize the habitcal...

Will happen, maybe sooner than some of the other changes I've discussed.

Reinhard

This doesn't look to bad:

http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/

Hopefully I can reuse some of this for the inevitable facebook app to follow...

Reinhard

I created a read only google gadget for the habitcal.

Surprisingly easy... (though edit will not be fun)

http://www.everydaysystems.com/habitcal/#ggl

If anyone winds up using this let me know!

Reinhard

Ooops... seems not to work unless you're already logged in.

I'll try to fix it tonight.

Reinhard

OK, I fixed it.

Reinhard