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Keep your New Years’ resolutions with Joe’s Goals (and do other stuff)

Daniel Pataki — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:55:26 +0000

An app I’ve been using on and off for a while is Joe’s Goals, which is a goal tracking application designed to motivate you and help you visualize and accomplish your goals. You can create a list of goals like “Drink at least 0.5L of water instead of Coke”, “Write at least 2 posts a day”, and you can they mark a goal done. You get a point value for each day based on the goals you have completed, all shown in a very simple, but sleek interface.

The beauty of this app is that it is simple on the surface, but once you think about it and see some advanced options (there aren’t a lot) you realize that this is more than an app created in 3 minutes to satisfy the armada of New Years resolution people. There are actually two types of goals available, positive and negative. Fulfilling a negative goal will give you a negative score, while a positive will give you a positive score. You can also fulfill (or tick) a goal more than once a day. For the goal “Write posts” you can award yourself with as many ticks as the posts you write for example.

The picture is further shaded by the fact that you can add a weight to each goal, so publishing 2 posts a day (two ticks) would raise your points, but drinking even one can of Coke could decrease it by much more, it’s all up to you. There are a few more features in there, but in simplicity lies the key here, just set up your goals, visit it once a day and keep ticking. After a while you can see how you’re doing, getting a higher score for me is motivation to drop that Coke can!

Fun and cool way to manage multiple twitter accounts

Daniel Pataki — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:30:16 +0000

I stumbled on to a service for managing multiple twitter accounts and at first I thought it was going to be one of those second rate sites, I was put off a bit by the 16×16 logo I saw on the referring page. However when I got to Matt I was instantly pulled in.This is a site with a truly unique and fun style, which allows you to very effectively manage a whole load of Twitter accounts while your at it.

You can simply add accounts while Gobo the account manager introduces himself, and once that’s done you can send tweets by simply typing out your tweet and selecting which account you want to submit it to. The cool thing is that you can send to multiple accounts, so you won’t have to type or copy paste messages multiple times.

The only negative thingI have found during my tweeting is that my messages tend to be delayed by about 3 minutes. This is not an error, you can see your tweet’s status being queued, I guess they just have too much traffic. I can live with that 3 minutes though, and although I don’t have multiple accounts yet, I will still use Matt for Twittering because of its design.

Remember the Milk on your iPhone

Daniel Pataki — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:43:43 +0000

My favorite task manager, Remember The Milk is now easily available on your iPhone, or iPod touch. You need the pro version to get the optimized RTM ($25 per year), but you can access the normal version for free. I think the $25 for RTM is worth it, not really because of the extras you get, but because it’s nice to say thank you for such a cool app.

You can add and edit tasks as you would in the desktop version, you can also use your touch powers to mark a taks complete with the touch of a button. In fact, you can do nearly anything you can do normally, and always having your tasks with you is a great advantage.

You can now also add Remember the Milk to your Home Screen by visiting you’re the RTM iPhone website, tapping the plus sign, and adding it from there. You will see the nice, shiny and cute cow right there on the screen, awesome.