I spend hours making notes and then I do not read them or action them. Instead I do the bare minimum to get through the day.
Same here, I even sync my notes across devices and put them under version control
Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?
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#82I use an app that I wrote, meditations, in order to break down goals into daily habits: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations
e.g. "I want to run a marathon" becomes a daily "Exercise" habit. It's good for both progress and logging; now if I want to know what program I was running on June 28, 2015 for example I just filter for Exercise and go back to June 2015.
It was originally a Trello board so it's got an obviously kanban-ish look to it, but it's got things built in to collect things like time spent on habits overall, streaks.
I'm still working on the best flow for longer-term projects and "negative habits" (i.e. losing weight, not compulsively using the internet).
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?
#83I am using https://www.trask.life
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#84I’m testing Things 3 right now. It’s based on GTD philosophy.
I’m looking for a way to visualize my progress yet.
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#85I use org mode for both regular work as well as one off targets. Org mode allows me to clearly bucket tasks into what is scheduled and needed by when, tag related tasks together but define them anywhere, also allows to define subtasks and track task progress in terms of sub tasks. It allows you to see your agenda on a configurable time period, and can also equally support GTD. Personally I find it to be a really nice…
I’ll give a shot.
Some friends told me about org mode these days.
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#86I don't. Live is hard enough without you constantly pushing yourself and giving yourself a bad conscious for not reaching your goals. Relax, kick back and just do what you feel is fun.
Hhahahahahahahah
So true!
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#87I record my quarterly goal as my work computer login. This forces me to review it every 90 days and makes me keep it short. The main benefit is that I have to repeat it to myself several times a day.
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#88Google Keep.
I have four types of notes: personal, work, learning, and health. For each type of note, I have a short term and long term list of tasks.
All tasks in my short term lists should be cleared within 1-2 days. This includes everything from paying bills, doing a few online course lessons, committing a PR or two, running 5 miles, purchasing something online, etc. I also include a few habits in this that I try to build, like "daily affirmations". The key is to make these as bite-sized as possible.
My long term TODOs are essentially a backlog dump that I pull from when I need to refresh my short term TODOs. Many of these are fuzzy ideas that I haven't broken into actionable steps, like "learn docker", "plan europe trip", or "hack on X". Some of these are small tasks that I just haven't gotten around to doing, like "add expenses to tax return", but at least its written down somewhere. I groom this every now and then.
I have a third type of note -- daily accomplishments. I essentially just bullet everything I accomplished that day outside of routine chores like "cook dinner" or "call parents". I archive this daily. I get lazy and don't fill this out 80% of the time.
Not sure if this is the best system, but it sure beats my old system of having a giant list of TODOs written on a piece of paper
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#89Loop 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…
I'm putting together https://habitrabb.it as an alternative to Loop but addressing some of the issues people in Play store were complaining about. Still a WIP but Android version will come out soon and I'm currently in the process of majorly reworking the UX.
Essentially the difference is people sometimes complained of losing a lot of data because no cloud backups and no iOS version hence i'm doing web+android+ios. Also a lot of people wanted to be able to track doing habits multiple times per day or track some specific metric (30x pushups) which I've chosen to implement. Small things like that but they add up.
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#90I don't. Live is hard enough without you constantly pushing yourself and giving yourself a bad conscious for not reaching your goals. Relax, kick back and just do what you feel is fun.
I did that this weekend. It was also hard to kick back and relax when I wanted to work on my goals. That was very conflicting, but I'm starting to see the value of slowing down a little bit.