<story><title>Personal Kanban 101</title><url>http://personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yitchelle</author><text>While this is good, it goes into the mix with 100s of other similar or same apps (but with a different name). What I have yet to see is how to increase the motivation to actually close the things on the list. Anyone with hints?&lt;p&gt;I try to be  mindful of the things on my list, especially when I add new items on to it, but closing it out is a different story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t use this app, but I&amp;#x27;m a big Kanban fan. For me the motivation to close items comes through WIP limits. For my personal Kanban setup, I have a WIP limit of 3 for active tasks, and three for &amp;quot;pending&amp;quot; tasks, by which I mean things that are blocked waiting for somebody else.&lt;p&gt;If I have 3 active tasks, that means I have to pick from among them to work on something. For me, that usually results in finishing what I&amp;#x27;ve started in reasonably quick order. I also aim to favor closing an open task before pulling a new one from the backlog, which helps further.&lt;p&gt;Once I do this consistently, it generates motivation (or perhaps decreases the sapping of my natural motivation) in that I&amp;#x27;m in the habit of getting things flowing through the system and minimizing WIP.</text></comment>
<story><title>Personal Kanban 101</title><url>http://personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yitchelle</author><text>While this is good, it goes into the mix with 100s of other similar or same apps (but with a different name). What I have yet to see is how to increase the motivation to actually close the things on the list. Anyone with hints?&lt;p&gt;I try to be  mindful of the things on my list, especially when I add new items on to it, but closing it out is a different story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>Astrid Tasks was the only one that really helped me get a lot of old tasks done, but Yahoo killed it. No to do list since really keeps me on task.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve tried Habitica which attempts to gameify your tasks, but I dunno .. I just never got into it.&lt;p&gt;I have an OpenProject server running for myself, but I kinda forgot about it for a while and stopped checking in.&lt;p&gt;When I was a kid in the 90s, I found myself much more able to stay on tasks. Going into college, I could code for hours, building things, write things ... I don&amp;#x27;t even have kids&amp;#x2F;family as an adult, I just find my motivation waning.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve taken sabbaticals in my life, which has helped me focus on some tasks and get some big things done, but even then there is diminishing return as I start to worry about money and look for work again: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;khanism.org&amp;#x2F;perspective&amp;#x2F;minimalism&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;khanism.org&amp;#x2F;perspective&amp;#x2F;minimalism&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think a personal Kanban or anything else is a silver bullet solution. You have to hit a critical mass in the work you&amp;#x27;re trying to do, whether it&amp;#x27;s an open source project or creating videos or live-coding. I&amp;#x27;m more impressed today by major YouTubers like 8-Bit Guy or Wendover Productions, and people like Drew DeVault who just write so much production ready stuff.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s harder today because we have to fight greater distractions ... like browsing Hackernews when I really should try to get this regex working. :-P</text></comment>