I will have to try this, thanks for pointing to a mistake I have made in my previous attempts at scheduling tasks!
One aspect which I have the feeling is also important to you (and is important to me) is that the system also has some beauty to it. I guess this is mostly because using the system should feel more rewarding than the alternative of “happen to forget about it” so that it can become a habit.
To sustain ongoing motivation, it is important to clearly feel the motivation/progress in the moment. Our motivational system does not have access to an independent world model which could tell it that the currently non-motivating task is actually something to care about and won’t endorse it if there is no in-the-moment expectation of relevant progress.
As you describe, your approach feels more like “making the abstract knowledge of progress graspable in-the-moment to one’s motivational system” instead of “trying to trick it into doing ‘the right thing’ ”.
I will have to try this, thanks for pointing to a mistake I have made in my previous attempts at scheduling tasks!
One aspect which I have the feeling is also important to you (and is important to me) is that the system also has some beauty to it. I guess this is mostly because using the system should feel more rewarding than the alternative of “happen to forget about it” so that it can become a habit.
I recently read (/listened to) the shard theory of human values and I think that its model of how people decide on actions and especially how hyperbolic discounting arises fits really well with your descriptions:
To sustain ongoing motivation, it is important to clearly feel the motivation/progress in the moment. Our motivational system does not have access to an independent world model which could tell it that the currently non-motivating task is actually something to care about and won’t endorse it if there is no in-the-moment expectation of relevant progress. As you describe, your approach feels more like “making the abstract knowledge of progress graspable in-the-moment to one’s motivational system” instead of “trying to trick it into doing ‘the right thing’ ”.