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42goals lets you track and graph goals of all kinds
Oh wow, another goal tracker. How exciting is that?
If you caught yourself thinking something like that upon seeing the title of this post, I'm sure you're not the only one; it's exactly what I thought when I first came across 42goals.
Then, I started playing with it and realized it's actually pretty cool. It's kind of like Joe's Goals on steroids.
Some goals are best tracked with a simple "+1" quantity. How many cups of coffee have I had today?
Other goals are boolean (or "binary"). Did I cry again at school today when all the other kids taunted me or not?
Other goals are best measured with cold, hard numbers. How many miles did I run today? How much money did I spend?
42goals lets you track each of these goal types easily. It is interesting to note that, by default, numerical targets are incremented. Meaning, let's say you spend $100 on a given day, and you note it. Then you spend $10 more and want to add it to the overall sum for that day. You just need to click that day and type "10", and it would add that $10 to the total spending amount for that day. That surprised me at first (I expected the value to be overwritten by the new value), but it actually makes a lot of sense; it lets you update the value as you go through the day.
There are some pretty neat graphing options as well. You can get a line or bar graph for each goal; the bar graph can be grouped by days, weeks, weekdays ("what day do I smoke the most?"), or months.
Do you know of a better habit-tracking application that we haven't covered yet? Let me know in the comments.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsGhanashyamMay 17th 2010 7:27PM
There is your.flowingdata.com which works in a similar fashion.
KevinMay 17th 2010 8:00PM
Has DownloadSquad profiled Daytum http://daytum.com yet?
iGateMay 18th 2010 9:42AM
you've failed to link to the reviewed site...
42goals.com
i found it, it looks pretty good though.
David S. (@seemsArtless)May 18th 2010 5:54PM
I've been giving daytum a try, and like what I see, but I do wonder how actively it is being updated after looking at http://code.google.com/p/daytum/issues/list
Andrew FergusonMay 19th 2010 1:33PM
A bit off topic, but why doesn't DLS make the links easier to figure out? For example, in the sentence, "...it's exactly what I thought when I first came across 42goals," that "42goals" would be a link to 42goals Web site. But it's not. In fact, the only link to 42goals.com is the image and the word "source" at the bottom, neither of which I'd automatically assume to be links to the topic of interest (I would assume that the picture linked to a bigger picture...or more pictures, and the "source" would link to wherever the information or idea originated, which isn't necessarily always the topic of interest).