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comment by blackbootz
blackbootz  ·  3797 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An App Turned My Life Around

I use the Reminders app on the iPhone to remind myself to write everyday, and rely on myself to remember to exercise. But this app seems to have an appealing interface, and I second the author's point of the motivating power of maintaining a streak. I heard somewhere that the stand up comic Seinfeld had a calendar he would use to keep track of days he did something substantial to further his career. A big X through the day. (I'm not sure exactly what Seinfeld's definition of a successful day is, but the point is he kept a visual aid to tally progress.) He said that once the streak of Xs started, he would never want it to stop. I'll see about using this app in the same way.