Does anyone else make lists?

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Oh yes. I could have written that, except I don't know what Habitica is.

Should I investigate, is it helpful?

I make a lot of lists that serve no purpose.

I've made quite a lot of lists .Nowadays they're notepad/word pad files rather than handwritten .

I make my lists on Microsoft Word. How do you organize your lists?

Wordpad (the old Windows XP version, not that later version that needlessly wastes a big part of the window space with a big menu area). Rich Text format documents.

I don't use Word very much because it takes longer to open a document, and I don't have the patience to wait for it. It's got a lot of good features such as a word counter and all sorts of clever formatting things, but I don't need them for the kind of lists I write for my own use.

Wordpad has enough features for what I want to do - bold, colours, different fonts and text sizes. I like that Find And Replace feature, and I like the way I can just select a phrase in the document, open the Find box and that phrase is there as the search term. If I've got a long document and need a bookmark, I just type $$ at the place I want to get back to, and then type $$ at the start of the document, on its own line. Then when I open it, I just hold down the Shift key and hit the right arrow key twice, then do CTRL+f and ENTER. That selects the $$ and finds the next instance of it (i.e. the bookmark). I've done it so often that I can find my place like lightning these days. I expect there's a proper bookmark feature in Word that works as well, but I couldn't figure it out last time I looked.

I don't like Notepad much because the selecting feature isn't quite as functional as the Wordpad one, and it does this annoying thing, I make the window bigger but the lines of text don't take up the space, they just stay where they were, unless I save, close, and re-open. And when I save a Notepad document, the cursor jumps up a few lines.

Sometimes I use Excel, that's very handy if I want to order a list by this or that field. So if I have a list of songs to perform, I can have fields for the style of the songs, how easy or hard it is to sing, whether or not I think it's ready to perform, whether or not I've learned the words, how good it seems to sound, etc., and then I can order the list on whichever of those I'm interested in, to help me decide on a set list to do a performance, or to pick a song for recording.

It's not bad, basically it's an app that turns daily tasks, habits and responsibilities into a sort of RPG. For example I have "take vitamins" as a daily morning task, the app sends me a notification when it's time to take my vitamin, and when I take my vitamin I get gold and experience, and my character levels up, I can buy new accessories, etc. Same for when I exercise, practice piano for 30 minutes, etc. I also have bad habits on there, like snacking after midnight, and if I do that I take damage. You decide how big or small the rewards and penalties are for each habit. If you lose health for doing bad habits or missing scheduled tasks you can do enough good habits to get gold to buy health potions to recover. I find it rather useful, there are some issues like I personally have trouble deciding how to set it up and I keep changing it, sometimes I'll add too many things and get overwhelmed. AFAIK there is no way to reset your character so when I wanted to start from scratch I had to make a new account. You should give it a try.