Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?

Re:Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals? by everdev on Sunday July 22, 2018 @12:13PM (#17587438)

This app changed my life. It's the only one that's actually worked.

Knowing quantitatively that I'm improving in a certain area is a huge motivator (as is knowing that I've stalled).

In the past, when I forget to exercise for a few days I would get down and think that exercising was to changing, time consuming, etc.

Now, I can see that those periods of inactivity are just small dips in an overall positive trend of exercising more.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals? by pixelmonkey on Sunday July 22, 2018 @12:21PM (#17587487)

So people don't think we are raving lunatics, here is the screenshot of the analytics from the app:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlOsJsDFgCd/

So, in this case, over the course of 5 weeks I built up a habit strength of 4x weekly exercise by watching this graph move up and trying to keep my streak. Basically, the app puts hard data behind your daily commitments and helps you see -- quickly -- when you are failing. And ack'ing the success/failure of a commitment is just a single checkbox on a single screen, and it can remind you (with notifications) daily.

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