Joe’s Goals in the news (a lot)
New Years hit and so did all the people looking to keep their New Years resolutions. Here are just a few of the links that Joe has gotten in the last couple of days:
- Lifehacker: “You’ve decided to quit smoking, post to your blog, bring lunch to work or regulate your sleeping patterns every day. Track your progress with Joe’s Goals, a Ben Franklin-esque daily points counter. Did you spend the whole day without biting your nails once? Give yourself a point in Joe’s Goals. If not, subtract a point. Great for gamers who want to set up a little personal competition for self-improvement.”
- Random Thoughts: “One of the favorite goals for the guy that created Joe’s Goals is to “Bless Others”. What a neat idea! How would your life change if you adopted that as one of your goals?”
- Tritone Substitution: “Joe’s Goals is a great self-monitoring web-based application that will add and subtract points for the various things you assign.”
- Get Rich Slowly: “Ask the Readers: Best Tools for Tracking Resolutions? Joe?s Goals is an easy-to-use goal-tracking app. It lets you track positive and negative goals, and keeps a daily record of your progress. It?s free!”
- Sonja: “I just discovered this one today, but wow. Super nifty. So simple and yet so powerful. I’m tracking all of my resolutions in one tiny little easy-to-use app. Heartily endorsed.”
- CEO Blog - Time Leadership: “There is a good site called Joe’s Goals that allow people to set and track their goals.”
- Schmucknews’s Podcast: “Here’s a free online tool to help you do the things you want to do. Joe’s Goals is a website that let’s you define your positive and negative goals, and then track your progress. When you do something towards a goal, you click on the goal. And the online software keeps count.”
- Egret’s Nest: “Great for those new habits you want to build into your life.”
- Meri Williams Weblog: “Joe?s Goals helps you document your resolutions AND track your behaviour ? so you can realise where you?re doing well (typically where you?ve managed to install the routine required) and where you?re doing badly.”
- Random Technology: “The interface is dead simple and the application just does what it’s supposed to do. There are a few other niceties: export to CSV and badge tracking display for a widget or on your blog.”
- ObesityHelp.com: “awesome and easy to use!”
- Heavy Weight: “I really enjoying logging into Joe’s goals every day and checking off yet another workout.”
- Singfiel: Some power users from Kosovo have added the badge to help their supports keep them accountable.


