Joe’s Goals (interesting name, I know) is a site which offers extremely simple goal tracking.
Basically, you register and get your own page; where you add various goals – specifying if they are positive or negative. You use positive ones to do, or keep up, with things and negative ones not to do things! When you do (or don’t do) something, you simply click a box and it is automatically saved! A tally is then updated, with all positive and negative things added up! If you do the same goal twice in a day (or don’t do it twice) you can click it twice, and the tally updates once again.
You can share your progress on a goal with a friend by sending them an email, the receipient then has to sign-up using that address. Personally, I’d like the compulsory sign-up to be removed; as asking users to join works better than forcing them!
Joe’s Goals considers a very important thing: K.I.S.S. . The Web 2.0 is lacking in K.I.S.S. at the moment. K.I.S.S. is a term often used in web design: keep it short and simple! This site is fairly simple, and very short. It fulfills it’s purpose, but does not add hundreds of unnecessary features. IMO, this improves productivity.
Personally, I’d like more AJAX (for example, when you add a goal it doesn’t reload the page), and the option to make all goals public. Also, I find it interesting how it runs on ColdFusion (as you can see by the .cfm extension) and not RoR or PHP.
This site actually provides something which is useful, simple, very Web 2.0 and productive.
Tags: web 2.0, joesgoals, ajax, productivity, web, web2.0, web2, web 2
Alternatives : Pen + Paper, Memory (Brain), Secretary (which do more than this) and mobile phone which you carry around anyways.
Advantages : Do not require computer, cheaper as no internet required, and more customisable.
I rest my case.
I dunno joe, I won’t use it because I am a PDA kinda guy but it does look kewl to me.
I can see where others would use it. I think it is a meritable use of the web. I like the score tally for each day.
Thanks for the great review! Several of the things you talked about are in the work queue and will hopefully be coming out in the next few weeks.