Lukas Gregor Not long ago, I presented here the possible positive influence of applications in building our new habits. While however R stayed in our private space, concept Elevator it is based on the need to connect to a similarly attuned community of people.
And therein lies its great advantage. Well... maybe the word "potential" should be used more, because Lift is far from being ready for applause. But not to get ahead of myself.
If you pick up any habit guide, if you come across a blog dedicated to people who are struggling in vain to quit smoking or have their running shoes lined up in the front yard, you will repeatedly come across one essential piece of advice: Share your new habit, share for small steps to acquire it, join a group of people who have a similar goal. You won't be alone in this, and what's more, you'll probably be more reluctant to let your resolution fall asleep.
The creators of Lift build on this recommendation. When you sign up for their service, you open the door to a fairly large community with whom you can share habits. Either you follow the others (just for inspiration) or you directly "connect" to them - so-called friends can be traced through social networks and you can see their progress in a special "timeline".
Otherwise, Lift works like other similar applications. You set the habits you intend to build, then you always mark when you have actually implemented them. And, of course, you can monitor everything in graphs - your weekly and monthly ratings.
The advantages of the application are not only the fact that you can watch how other people struggle with their goals in the world, but also the pleasant user interface and the simple design of the graphs. In short, you see the days/weeks when you "tick" the habit highlighted in color in the columns. You can also access all of this from the web interface.
However, Lift is still a young application (you can currently find version 1.0.2 in the App Store), and with immaturity, its accompanying negative phenomena also appear. Finding and connecting to friends is solved in a strange way. In practice, I connected Lift with my Facebook and Twitter accounts. Lift itself found the people I have among my friends/followers who use Lift and put them as friends in its service. I can still get new friends by sending an invite, but I've never liked this with any other app.
The surprising thing is that if you happen to be interested in one of Lift's users (let's say, for example, they have a very pretty female avatar), you have no chance to add the user to your friends - that is, to a special subscription. And if any of you figure out that this is possible, I will be happy to explain in the comments below the article.
Personally, I think (or hope?) that the authors will fix these flaws, or at least explain them, in future versions. But if you're looking for an app — a watchdog at your will while building habits — you should give Lift a shot. Having enough friends around you makes it even more fun (and motivating). In addition - Lift will not cost you anything.
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