With the 2023 H1 HeroMode user survey, we were able to gather very valuable user feedbacks. There are so many areas we need to improve, so we have formulated the HeroMode v4 roadmap. We will completely update the HeroMode UI, and make onboarding smoother and more intuitive. We will make it easier to create beautiful adventures with templates. And finally, we will add more motivational features so that it'd be truly fun to get stuff done.

HeroMode is now available as a Chrome Extension! You can add HeroMode to Chrome, and use it within any browser page.

With the HeroMode Chrome Extension, you can manage all your adventures and quests directly within your existing workflow. For example, now I use HeroMode on my iPhone, and I also have the HeroMode extension embedded in my Gmail browser tab.

As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback -- you can email us at heromode.product@ovisly.com.

We are announcing the 2023 H1 HeroMode User Survey! If you are a HeroMode user, we would love to hear from you, regardless of if you like or dislike HeroMode. To thank you for your time, we will give you up to $30 of Amazon gift card for your feedbacks. Submission closes on Jan. 31, 2023. More details can be found within this post.

HeroMode v3 is now available as a web app! You can use it at web.heromode.app.

All the HeroMode functionalities in the iOS app are also there in the web app. Now you can manage all your adventures and quests across multiple devices!

As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback -- you can email us at heromode.product@ovisly.com.

In this last post of 2022, we want to discuss a common pitfall that can derail your New Year's resolutions (it happened to me!). And we also offer up a recipe to combat it, so that you can steadily work towards your goals.

HeroMode has many different use cases. Today, I describe how I use HeroMode to build a stretching routine to rehabilitate my knees.

• Set up a repeat quest for a stretching session
• Within the quest, use checkboxes to list the movements
• Each stretching session takes no more than 10 minutes to complete
• I set up the repeat quest for Mondays through Fridays, so that I'm reminded to get up and stretch during work days
• Since setting up the "Stretch time!" repeat quest, I've been stretching almost daily, and my knees are feeling a lot better!

Do you have a new habit you'd like to adopt? Here we lay out the three simple steps to use HeroMode as a Habit Tracker:

1. Create an Adventure for the New Habit
2. Create a Repeat Quest for the Task Associated With the Habit
3. See Your Progress With Metrics and Activity Calendar

We also provide some additional tips to make your habit building journey joyful and successful.

This time of the year, goals and reflections are top of mind for many of us. Setting a goal well, and it can propel you to glory and success. Setting goals ineffectively, and they could become distractions, or worse, unnecessary anxieties.

How to set goals the right way? We look at three lessons on goal setting from behavioral psychology.

We describe how we customized our HeroMode blog with Docusaurus's swizzling functionality. Specifically, we added a blog header to give context to the blog. And we also added subscription buttons so visitors can stay in the loop about new posts automatically.

Many of us have wished to have more willpower. That's because we have this notion that having more willpower will help us accomplish more. However, researches are increasingly pointing to an alternative framework, and challenging our understanding on how willpower works.