My friend and I were just talking about a productivity app where you keep an animal alive by finishing tasks. The rabbit burrow is a lower stakes version of that, which is honestly probably a healthier approach 😆
I’ll be using it today while I work. Looking forward to trying it out!
UPDATE after a day of use - I love this! Very easy to use and the timer is legible. Also, it's nice to see a timer counting up as opposed to my pomodoro timers always counting down.
Some initial thoughts:
Down the road, would it be possible to do custom activities?
When the timer isn't running and the playdate is sleeping, I think it's still running as my battery had dropped quite a bit from when I turned it off to when I turned it on a few hours later. Again, this is when I had no timers running.
I don't see money earned on the report screen. Will you be showing this on the burrow screen when that gets developed?
Timer appears to automatically stop and go back to the task selection screen after a certain length of time. Not sure exactly how long. It will go past 60 minutes is all I know.
You are right, main thing is not to fall into gamification too much, otherwise it will not be productive anymore :)
Custom activities are not planned so far, trying to keep it simple. I was trying to give activities abstract icons, so you can connect them to what you're doing.
That's interesting observation, but in general it should not drain the battery, playdate is not allowing to run apps in background. I'll keep an eye on it.
Yes, money will be shown on burrow screen.
Correct, limit is 90 mins - made for such cases when you forgot to turn it off, so your stats will not be totally broken. Usually working session should not be more than 45 mins.
I will add burrow screen within upcoming update ;)
Oh, that’s what that chime is around 45 minutes! Good idea including a little break reminder. Regarding the battery, I did not see drain yesterday, so I think it was just me not paying attention. You can disregard.
Thanks I needed this pretty badly as my time management and tracking is horrible and there are some times I'll just oggle my playdate instead of doing my work.
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My friend and I were just talking about a productivity app where you keep an animal alive by finishing tasks. The rabbit burrow is a lower stakes version of that, which is honestly probably a healthier approach 😆
I’ll be using it today while I work. Looking forward to trying it out!
UPDATE after a day of use - I love this! Very easy to use and the timer is legible. Also, it's nice to see a timer counting up as opposed to my pomodoro timers always counting down.
Some initial thoughts:
Hey Ryan, thank you for detailed feedback!
You are right, main thing is not to fall into gamification too much, otherwise it will not be productive anymore :)
I will add burrow screen within upcoming update ;)
Oh, that’s what that chime is around 45 minutes! Good idea including a little break reminder.
Regarding the battery, I did not see drain yesterday, so I think it was just me not paying attention. You can disregard.
Thanks I needed this pretty badly as my time management and tracking is horrible and there are some times I'll just oggle my playdate instead of doing my work.
Thanks for feedback! Hope it will help you.