About this episode

Rylan discusses his journey of creating a habit tracker that evolved into a complex RPG system before returning to simplicity.

I built a simple Excel habit tracker and slowly turned it into a full RPG system with XP, levels, ranks, milestones, and weighted scoring. What started as a clean way to track habits became an over-engineered game design experiment where I spent more time balancing progression than actually doing the habits. Eventually I realized I liked building the system more than using it, scrapped the whole thing, and switched back to a minimal habit tracker. New episodes every Thursday at 6 AM IST. Check out my other work: https://linktr.ee/rylanbanis

People in this episode

Host: Rylan Banis

Topics covered

• habit tracking
• RPG system
• game design
• personal development
• productivity

Keywords

• Excel
• habit tracker
• XP
• levels
• milestones
• game design
• progression

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