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I was going to say, the main reason todo apps fail is because they are specifically about doing what people don't want to do.

If there were a generic way to unfuck your life on the other side of it, I could see it being wildly popular. Like a linear progression in weights, or a fasting diet, or a spaced repetition scheme, but for unwinding the effects of avoidant behaviours, with progress and results, that would be valuable.

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I certainly wouldn't claim NowDo is a silver bullet, but I think it does a better job than any other todo app at avoiding the pitfalls procrastinators fall into. For the past 2 years I've been using a prototype of NowDo on i3/Linux that I cobbled together and it had a big impact on my productivity.

tell me more about spaced repetition please

Here's a fairly in-depth exploration of spaced repetition, if that's the style you prefer - https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition

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