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

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Post by grosjona » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC

kd5bjo wrote: post #37

house9-2 wrote: post #32

I don't have personal goals. I do have TODO lists I track on paper, usually things that need to get done within a month.

Without goals, how do you decide what you do and don’t need to get done?

I think that it's better to be guided by passion and personal principles than some cheesy list of goals that you tick off one at a time.

Maybe they just have a single unachievable goal that they work towards endlessly; I think that's a worthy goal and it definitely wouldn't fit into a list format.

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

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Post by vinchuco » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC

Using TeX syntax (or any language with collapsing blocks of text), a text file with branches.

https://hastebin.com/gocibazeji.rb

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

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Post by CaptAw » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 5:01 PM UTC

I used todolist for everything on organizing tracking. I start a completely new one each once and a while so I'm forced to purge or reconsider old and forgotten tasks. Saves as an simple .txt file.

https://abstractspoon.weebly.com/

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Post by ylk » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

beachsam0rai wrote: post #54

pixelmonkey wrote: post #45

Loop Habit Tracker for Android is the only thing that has ever worked for me for tracking goals -- and sticking to them. https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits Simple interface where you set your "habits" and how frequently per week you expect to do them. (E.g. exercise 4x per week, eat healthy 6x per week). Then you simply check off each day whether it happened. The analytics makes it clear if you are doing the right thi…

is there any ios alternatives? I found an app called Loop - Habbit Tracker (by Qinzen Xu) on appstore but I think that's not the one that on github.

I tried a lot and Productive (http://productiveapp.io/) worked the best for me but if you look around in the app store there are a few that are well designed.

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

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Post by jrowley » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

thesimon wrote: post #42

Semi-Related: How do you come up with long-term-goals? Owning a car in the Bay is worthless, real estate is too expensive. Traveling the world is nice, but it might get boring after some years. I kinda like my work and my life, but I feel like I should have a big future goal.

Owning a car in the bay allows you to get to some of the best hiking / running trails in the world! Get a car, then get outside! (or just do whatever makes your happy :)

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

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Post by chillacy » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 5:24 PM UTC

I break a Trello board into four columns:

1. Habits which have some weekly frequency (meditate 10 mins 3x/w) and are all aligned to one or more...

2. Goals which are measurable (complete 3 headspace packs) and all align to...

3. Values which are unique to me (mental health) which agree with...

4. Principles or rules of nature which apply to everyone (better mental health leads to more happiness, happiness leads to better life quality)

I create a board every quarter to re-adjust my values, goals, and habits.

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

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Post by zmix » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

I got a simple XML document, that contains tasks and todos. I query it from either command line or via a web interface, using mainly XQuery and a little XSLT.

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

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Post by jclif » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

A collection of google drive documents. I went through the process of deciding on Core Values (viz. the Integrity Report that James Clear does), and life time goals. Now I set yearly/monthly/weekly/daily goals that wrap up into larger scale projects. One useful process has been period reviews (daily reviews at the end of day, etc), where I'll check how well I did with regard to my goals, and whether I'm living with integrity (according to my explicitly set Core Values). During these reviews, I'll make note of the next level up, e.g. during monthly reviews, I'll check my annual reviews and update them as necessary.

https://jamesclear.com/integrity https://jamesclear.com/goal-setting

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Post by ezstar » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

beachsam0rai wrote: post #54

pixelmonkey wrote: post #45

Loop Habit Tracker for Android is the only thing that has ever worked for me for tracking goals -- and sticking to them. https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits Simple interface where you set your "habits" and how frequently per week you expect to do them. (E.g. exercise 4x per week, eat healthy 6x per week). Then you simply check off each day whether it happened. The analytics makes it clear if you are doing the right thi…

is there any ios alternatives? I found an app called Loop - Habbit Tracker (by Qinzen Xu) on appstore but I think that's not the one that on github.

I use Today on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/today-habit-tracker/id105529...

It can back up its DB to Dropbox, which I've used in a few small automation projects