I would be interested too. I have had huge problems not only with habits but routines in general. I have a bs in psych and understand operant and classical conditioning very well (along with the post by tim i would add this to your reading). None of this information has helped me in the following areas exercise eating healthy procrastination many many other things
On procrastination: I have found the material in lukeprog's post summarizing the literature on procrastination fairly useful. Have you tried to apply it?
Actually i have two of the books he heavily relied on. The procrastination equation and psychology of modern day life. The problem i also have a huge problem with motivational issues
Does anyone know of better software for doing exercises semi-regularly? I doubt Anki is ideal for this because I expect the frequency should decay more slowly to really make these things habits and probably should not continue decaying indefinitely.
IIRC, the similar jMemorize is very customizable in its scheduling.
Do you have any particularly good patterns of thought that could be put in anki?
I found that since using the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions deck "If I expect to believe ___, then I should just believe it now" as a cached thought that's come into play a few times.
I'd like to figure out how to create habits more effectively and systematically, especially mental habits.