I just barely got this app...literally minutes ago...and I already feel lost. I like the whole idea but I would feel better if there were some kind of help on each page so I don’t feel lost and unsure. Something that offers prompts for what to do and how to operate the app. It would be nice to be able to pick the sidekick (unicorn, fairy, dragon, wolf, etc) and be able to give it a name (baring inappropriate names). It would be there as a help for using the app, as a companion for the journey, as a source of encouragement, and something to help lighten the mood with a joke or funny phrase. I think with a Super Sidekick, this app would be unstoppable. Not everyone is going to be keen on having one so it would be nice to have the ability to disable the Super Sidekick for those who don’t want it.

Thank you for making Superbetter! It has had a significant and visible positive impact on my life. While playing several of the power packs currently available, I thought of a couple other general power pack topics that would certainly help me and likely other folks as well.

1. Outsmart Procrastination:

I struggle constantly with procrastination, even on tasks and projects I genuinely enjoy, like calling loved ones and reading for fun, not to mention unpleasant chores or challenging work. Some kind of power pack with power ups and quests that taught and encouraged strategies for getting things done, breaking down seemingly impossible or undesirable tasks into manageable steps, and reframing the thoughts and self-sabotaging mentality that accompany procrastination would be incredibly awesome to have as part of Superbetter.

2. Winter Wonderland

As someone who recently crawled out of a bout of depression during a very snowy Minnesota winter, I would love to see some kind of power pack that specifically targets the potential pitfalls of living in a place where you cannot rely so easily on getting outside and running into people in person for social connection, physical activity and mood boosting. Strategies and exercises for making the most of indoor activities and keeping negative thoughts in check when it's cold and dark would be a major boon for me next winter!

Why:

1, You already link to the BrainHQ co-founder's TED Talk in one of the quests, called "Your Plastic Brain".

2. BrainHQ has a strong science behind it.

2.1. BrainHQ is the only program that meets all requirements of The Institute of Medicine’s Checklist for Brain Training
https://www.brainhq.com/world-class-science/institute-medicine-checklist-brain-training

2.2. Specific research studies:
https://www.brainhq.com/world-class-science/information-researchers

and results one might expect: https://www.brainhq.com/world-class-science/published-research

3. They have a FREE-for-all short daily exercise (The Daily Spark) - these are two sessions of one of their paid exercises, every day it's a different exercise.
It, conveniently, takes about 5min (except for Navigation exercise), so it totally meets your criteria for being short & quick.

4. As a long-time user of BrainHQ, I can honestly say that they are NOT your competitors. And in an ideal world you'd partner with each other... (e.g., BrainHQ has big discounts during big holidays and you could notify your users about it...)
For example, I wasn't able to be consistent enough with BrainHQ to see great results because the stuff your tool (SuperBetter) trains (emotional resilience, etc.) wasn't addressed and I couldn't handle the training myself.

(I posted this issue earlier today, mistakenly explaining it as the counter going zero at US morning time, but that zeroing thing has already happened today, at X hours 37 minutes, as soon as I reported a completed action, so it definitely was NOT a time zone mismatch issue).

A few days ago, on the right from my shortest resilience stripe (physical) in my Battery, a number started to be shown. From what I understand, it's the number of my completed physical-resilience activities on that day.

But the problem is, when the number goes above 9, only the last digit of that number is shown, i.e. "0" for 10, "1" for "11" and so on.

1. Current state of affairs:
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POWER-UPs:
+1 for whatever it was +1 emotional resilience

QUESTS:
+1 for whatever it was +2 mental resilience

Bad Guys:
winning:
+1 for whatever it was +1 mental resilience
failing:
+1 mental resilience

Future Boost completed:
+1 mental resilience

Logging In:
+3 mental resilience in total per day

2. The Result:
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Mental resilience is always the longest on The Battery, no matter what.
Physical and social resilience are always the shortest.

3. The Problem with that
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Given that The Battery is in the top right corner, i.e., in terms of user experience, is a very noticeable thing on the page, it's impossible NOT to look at it and NOT to get the wrong evaluation of your current situation and NOT to get stressed out that you are not using SuperBetter properly or/and that your physical resilience is truly weak.
Visiting SuperBetter site many times a day to report completed stuff, and being shown a messed up Battery balance is no fun.

4. Suggested Solutions for balancing The Battery
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1. For those who've used SuperBetter long enough to get a largely imbalanced Battery because of the resilience score issues, a manual workaround:

The workaround I've found for myself for now is to set all quests, power-ups, bad guys as Physical, but change icon images of those items to what they actually are (emotional, mental), so that to remind myself visually why I need to do them.

2. A simple workaround you (SuperBetter team) can implement, the one that would massively improve The Battery' balance:

* For physical AND social Power-Ups, increase the core score for completed power ups.
E.g., for physical: +2 physical +1 emotional.
instead of the current +1 physical +1 emotional.
* For physical AND social Bad Guys, increase the core score for the bad guys battles won.
E.g., for physical: +2 physical +1 mental.
instead of the current +1 physical +1 mental.
* For emotional power-ups AND mental bad guys,
Add +1 physical.
It makes sense. Negative emotions affect one's physical health negatively (lower immunity, increased inflammation, more likely to get into physical accidents because of being distracted by emotions, more likely to eat unhealthy - eatign away the emotional pain), so increased emotional resilience also increases physical resilience.
And bad mental guys affect physical health as well, so battling them is good for physical health too.

3. A workaround that you (SuperBetter team) can implement for heavy users, i.e. the ones who don't just come for one power pack and go away forever:

Allow to disable The Battery.
The total score in the top right corner is still needed, it is motivating, but seeing the messed up Battery balance is no fun.

After I completed my very first Epic Win, I got "Real Life Superhero" achievement and maybe (I didn't check) some resilience score reward.

But after I completed my 2nd Epic Win, there were no rewards.
Given that it's relevantly easy to complete the first epic win while there is novelty about the SuperBetter tool, it seems like a good idea to reward non-first epic wins as well, to encourage users to keep up the good work.

Yes, the rewards are abstract (score, achievement title), but on tough days, in tough life situations, in situations when there is a whole bunch of epic wins to complete before the life situation gets at least a bit better, they light up the mood, give the sense of actual progress.

That's also why it seems like a good idea to show users a history of their completed Epic Wins (with dates of completions) — to provide a clear sense of progress., increase the feeling of self-efficacy.

CONTEXT:

1. Whenever I go to SuperBetter site, I try to launch exactly the page I need — to save time, efforts, attention span, and my wrist.
I do it via either a) my Chrome home page ­ - it has icons for SuperBetter pages that I use frequently (Power-Ups, Quests, Bad Guys) because I visit those pages frequently or b) Chrome's URL suggestions.

Given that you officially recommend prioritizing the web version of SuperBetter over the apps, I'm sure other users also attempt a similar quick-launch (maybe they even put the links to those pages on their browser's Bookmarks toolbar).

2. SuperBetter site forces me to re-login multiple times a day, it usually starts after the work day in American time zone starts.

PROBLEM:

Each time after the forced re-login I get redirected to the Activity page, no matter what page I initially launched.
It's annoying and distracting! Especially given than using SuperBetter requires lots of clicks in general.

I often make Quests that are bigger tasks that take several days to get done; for instance, I might have "create an email list for my business" as a Quest, then spend several hours researching whether to do it old school or via Mailchimp, and several hours another day actually creating the list. There are also Quests from the Power Packs that work like that: for instance, a Quest in the "Being Awesome" Power Pack that involves asking 3 people what they like about you. If you don't have many close friends or have social anxiety getting to 3 can be hard, but getting to 1 still counts for something. It would be so wonderful to have a % meter next to your Quests, so you can mark them as "30% done or "70% done" or whatever. Life isn't always an all-or-nothing affair, our Quests shouldn't be either!

Could you please make the difference (in their "DESCRIPTION:" explanations) between them more clear?
OR remove/replace one of them with another one.

I've happened to download two Power Packs and got all of the aforementioned Bad Guys on my list; and now I struggle to figure out the difference between "The Brain Drain" vs "The Brain Troll" vs "The Self-Critic" vs "The Zombie Programs" and how to report my battles.

I'll probably just delete the last 3, but I bet other users would be grateful if you'd optimized the list of those Bad Guys (made the difference between them more clear or deleted some / replaced some of them with each other).

I love the concept of gamifying real life challenges. I especially love all the science to back it up. I just wish the UI had the feel of a game. It currently is as exciting as checking things off a to do list. You get to see yourself “level up” but the levels seem arbitrary. What if you were an avatar moving through and exploring a world with different terrains/cities, etc. You could still have the same customization of making it your own journey by utilizing menus and choices as you go. When you complete a power up your avatar could get items, you could encounter “bad guys” on screen, have an option to select which of your bad guys it is, and then “battle” them (it could be a really basic animation, nothing fancy). You could select your quest and travel to different parts of the world either to complete it or when you complete it. Maybe this wouldn’t appeal to everyone, but for me, when it’s tough to get motivated, any little thing to make it more fun helps. Thanks!