Completion & Rewards
Completing a task is a single tap - check the box, you're done. The reward is one silver coin, consistently. No XP per task, no gold. Tasks feed the silver side of the economy.
Marking a Task Complete
Tap the check mark on the task card, or open the task detail sheet and tap "Complete." Either way, the task flips to its completed state immediately:
- Silver is granted.
- Any linked goal's progress bar updates.
- Any parent task's sub-task counter ticks up.
- Sub-tasks of the completed task are offered for cascade-completion.
There's no confirmation modal. Completing a task is fast on purpose - the whole point of the Lifegrid is to sweep through tasks without friction.
Silver Earned per Task
Each completed task grants +1 silver coin. Flat rate. No scaling by difficulty, deadline, or project.
Why one silver, flat
Silver is the real-world-reward currency - you spend it on the wishlist. A flat 1-coin rate means every completed task is meaningful but small. You can't game the system by creating ten trivial tasks instead of one big one; each still earns you one coin. See Earning Silver for the broader philosophy.
Un-completing a task revokes the silver. Deleting a completed task also revokes it. The balance re-computes from the full list of completion events, so it stays accurate whatever you do.
No XP or Gold per Task
Tasks don't grant avatar XP and don't grant gold. This surprises players coming from gamified productivity apps that reward everything.
The reasoning:
- XP comes from habits, journals, goal completions, infocards, and achievements. Adding task-per-completion XP would let you power-level by creating trivial tasks.
- Gold comes from combat sources - quests, arena, dungeons. Keeping gold out of the task system preserves the combat-driven loop.
Silver is the honest reward for tasks because tasks are a real-life consistency signal, and silver maps to real-life reward (via the wishlist).
Achievement Bonuses
While there's no per-task XP, hitting task-count milestones grants one-time bonuses through the Achievements system:
- Taskmaster - complete a number of tasks. Grants a one-time gold + XP payout.
- Taskmaster Supreme - complete a much larger number of tasks. Bigger one-time payout.
These are rare milestones, not per-task rewards. They're meant to recognize a pattern of consistent task-doing over time, not to scale linearly with activity.
Goal and Project Progress
When you complete a task linked to a goal, the goal's progress bar updates. Tasks (plus read infocards) are the primary signal for "how far along is this goal."
When you complete a task in a project, the project's task counter updates. Projects don't have a "progress" concept per se - they're organizational buckets, not trackable objectives.
Undoing a Completion
Tap the task again to un-complete it. This:
- Reverses the silver grant.
- Rewinds any goal-progress bar updates.
- Uncompletes sub-task cascades you'd triggered (if applicable).
All of this happens automatically - the silver ledger is event-based, so the balance stays consistent whether you're completing, un-completing, or deleting.