Welcome to the Gamified Schedule. In the game called life, you can track all Tasks and Quests here. All the experience points you are earning are helping you to level up in each Area of Life.
This description serves as a tutorial for new players. You can come back to this by clicking the "i" next to the name of the base (Gamified Schedule) at the top of the page. There are also many more "i" to give a more detailed description of the Base. Everything that is underlined is a clickable link.
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These are the Areas I am using to balance and plan my life. I have added a few examples to make clear how I am using each area. Even though this is working pretty well for me, you may want to adjust them to your own needs.
The Quests serve as Projects or Goals the Player can complete.
Each Quest has a difficulty, which must be estimated by the player.
I suggest the following differentiation:
Tasks are the things you do within a day. This could be everything from catching up with a family member, meeting a friend, or doing one's taxes.
To get all experience points to the appropriate Areas, the tasks have to be linked to the Quests or the Areas.
It is also possible to link the Record to a Side Area. (Only half of the experience points).
Additionally, you can set up recurring tasks, which copy the tasks on a certain frequency. Just activate the Automation "Recurring Tasks."
This is a collection of all of the people you are having frequent contact with. It is basically a contacts book that allows connecting a specific person to a specific task. This way you can track the last interaction with a specific individual and get notified if that person is due for a catch-up.
With the Birthday Automation, you can also add the next birthday of a person as a Task.
Airtable combines multiple elements. It works like a database where you can link, group, sort, and filter records. It also works similarly to a spreadsheet where the information is visualized nicely.
There are a few important things to keep in mind when working with Airtable:
Comparable to a line in excel but here everything in the line is connected to the field on the left. This serves as a primary key and is used when linking records.
How all the records are displayed. A view can filter, group, and sort the records as well as hiding specific columns.
A table can be compared to a sheet from excel. It is a set of data that can have multiple views.
A base is the combination of all the tables with all the records. Airtable puts different limits on the base according to the pricing plan.
Every column represents a specific field type or data type. Some of the basic field types are:
1 Link to another record
2 Single line text
3 Single select
4 Date
5 Formula
6 Explanation and additional field types
It is possible to link records to other tables. Create a new column and select which table you want to link it to (You can also link to the same table). In this field, you can now search for and select the record from the table you selected. When clicking on the linked record, a form opens up, which allows you to edit this record.
The cool thing is that editing a record anywhere updates the record everywhere.
With Airtable Plus you get more of everything but with Airtable Pro you get a bunch of new tools.
Apps allow you to organize and visualize your data differently and the advanced calendar option enables multiple date fields.
This is especially helpful when creating a time-blocking calendar.
To get started with the basics and some tutorials the Airtable Support is the way to go.
If you have more questions or are looking for a friendly place to share your project, check out the Airtable Community.