Joe’s Goals seems to be the most talked about online habit tracker. My first impression was that I didn’t like the way it looks. It seems a bit unwieldy to me compared to the Habit Calendar, which is the only other habit tracking tool I was able to find online.
The Habit Calendar has a calendar look, which I like better than the list form of Joe’s Goals. I like seeing those green success days adding up on the calendar. (They both use green for “success” and red for “failure.”) I also like that it’s referred to as the HABIT calendar, as that is what I am measuring.
However, there is no way to add it to my blog, which I would really like, and it takes me just a bit longer (like 1 or 2 seconds) to add my success mark. These two factors combined pushed me towards. Joe’s Goals.
The pluses:
Joe’s Goals
- let’s me add a success mark to my goal with one click,
- lets me add multiple success marks (which would be cool if I had a goal to drink 8 glasses of water or something,)
- has a blog badge.
The minuses:
- I don’t love the badge. It doesn’t let me change any of the text, or the color. I would call it Braidwood’s Habits or something like that and take off the giant “Joe’s Goals” (it’s not Joe’s goals, it’s MY habits!)
- The main minus of Joe’s Goals and the Habit Calendar is that I have to go to their website to indicate if I’ve done the habit for the day or not; an ingenious way for them to get traffic, but an inconvenience for me. This is why I’ll switch over instantly when someone develops a WordPress plug in that works equally well.
Neutral:
- Joe’s Goals lets me give each goal a point value which I find extraneous for my purposes. I’ll just leave it at the default of 1 point per “goal.”
Here is what the blog badge looks like:
Tune in tomorrow for my habit forming tips!
(“Her tips are habit forming? They must be good!”)
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