Enhancing Finch for Goal-Driven Users: Balancing Playfulness with Progress Tracking
I appreciate the playful approach Finch takes in supporting personal growth, and I’d love to make it my go-to app for self-betterment. However, I find that the current goals system limits how meaningfully I can track my progress over time. For example, I’d love the option to complete a goal early rather than waiting until the set date, as well as a way to click on a goal and view my consistency over time. For goals like going to the gym four times a week, daily reminders can be overwhelming, even with snooze options, as it’s hard to rearrange flexibly.
Being a Type A person, I’m motivated to analyze my data for self-improvement. However, the structure currently incentivizes completing smaller, less meaningful tasks just to level up, rather than focusing on goals that are truly important to me. Whether I complete five quick tasks or aim for eighteen ambitious ones, the rewards are the same, making it feel like there’s less value in tackling long-term goals.
While the app is visually engaging and light-hearted, some of my goals—like health—are lifelong commitments. They’re serious, and I’d love the app to reflect that by offering more nuanced ways to track and celebrate real progress. If Finch could add more flexibility and recognition for high-impact goals, it would create an ideal balance between playfulness and depth for users who want to see more than just their birb level up.
Being a Type A person, I’m motivated to analyze my data for self-improvement. However, the structure currently incentivizes completing smaller, less meaningful tasks just to level up, rather than focusing on goals that are truly important to me. Whether I complete five quick tasks or aim for eighteen ambitious ones, the rewards are the same, making it feel like there’s less value in tackling long-term goals.
While the app is visually engaging and light-hearted, some of my goals—like health—are lifelong commitments. They’re serious, and I’d love the app to reflect that by offering more nuanced ways to track and celebrate real progress. If Finch could add more flexibility and recognition for high-impact goals, it would create an ideal balance between playfulness and depth for users who want to see more than just their birb level up.
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Helpful good fun
Overall I enjoy this app, though I find the pressure to maintain a streak encourages perfectionism, which is anti-self-care, imo. Also it gives me anxiety. Everything else is great, though!
Love my fuzzy friend
I love this app so much and it is so great.
I was diagnosed with an immune disease so mentally and physically I was not well.. so I got this little buddy to cheer me up and I feel so much better about myself and the little guy makes me know that sometimes life is just the way it is. My fuzzy friend sends me kind and cheerful notifications that helps me get through the day.
I am in love💗
I was diagnosed with an immune disease so mentally and physically I was not well.. so I got this little buddy to cheer me up and I feel so much better about myself and the little guy makes me know that sometimes life is just the way it is. My fuzzy friend sends me kind and cheerful notifications that helps me get through the day.
I am in love💗
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