Archive for the 'joes's goals' Category

Joe’s Goals Update: Seinfeld Style Goal Chains

Inspired somewhat by GearFire’s suggestion that Joe’s Goals is a good way to track “task chains” and by Lifehacker’s original article on Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity techniques, I bit the bullet today and was able to hack together a long requested feature.
To make this work I wanted to keep with the spirit of Joe’s Goals and […]

A user testimony: addiction recovery

I am an individual in recovery from an addiction, and I often find the challenges of daily life overwhelming. So much to remember, so many things to do (or not do!), so many steps to take each day. I have found that Joe’s Goals helps me to not only remember to do certain […]

New Report: Logbook Summary

Just got done adding a quick little report to Joe’s Goals that lets you access your logbooks.
To access the report click reports at the top of your goal chart, select Logbook Summary, enter a time frame, and click Run Report. The report displays your notes by day and then by goal. Should work for most […]

Joe’s Goals featured as a Kim Komando cool site

Last Friday Joe’s Goals was featured as a Kim Komando cool site of the day, bringing in a ton of new traffic. Kim is a weekend national radio host and computer guru with a pretty cool site and a wide audience. She has a great site that you can check out here. Welcome new users […]

Joe’s Goals helps user fight Migraines

Bradley knew his migraine headaches were bad. Bad enough to even send him to the emergency room on occasion. Then one day someone suggested he try bicycle riding. Getting his old bike out of the garage he started riding a mile every day. Gradually he worked himself into shape and noticed that his headaches were […]

The people have spoken - report links are back!

So sometimes you don’t find out how much something is used until you move it. I just completed a quick update rolling back a few of the changes I made last week. The 30, 60, 90 report links are now back and the logbook now features a save link instead of a close button for […]

Joe’s Goals gets new reporting interface

Up until know my main focus has been the Joe’s Goals tracker itself and the reporting features have received little attention. Over the weekend I began testing and deploying a brand new reporting interface with four initial reports. The reports are pretty simple but let you access and crunch your tracker data and in new […]

Misc Updates and Bug Fixed

Thanks for all the bug reports! Details below:

Fixed Email Validation Script. Updated for all forms. Hopefully there won’t be as many problems with GMAIL tagged email addresses and the like. Please let me know via the feedback for if you have any trouble logging in.
Fixed issue with check counts and days since last check numbers […]

Take the Writer’s Weight Loss Challenge

Deborah Ng of Freelance Writing Jobs and Writers Row fame has come up with a great idea. Why not have bloggers use Joe’s Goals to challenge each other to lose weight? The idea is pretty simple. Sign up for Joe’s Goals, create a couple of simple weight loss goals, create a badge, and place the […]

Fixed bugs new and old

Those poor little bugs are getting rolled under the big Joe’s Goals development machine. Fixed another batch today and just got around to the blog post. Thanks to everyone who has been submitting bug reports.
Here are the details:

Update Reporting so it now works after breaking everything as soon as 2007 started.
Added India Time Zone (GMT […]