Much like Lifetick, GoalsOnTrack is designed to make accomplishing your goals easier and less intimidating. The application makes it easy to set SMART goals and forces you to define what the goal is, why it is important to you and how you will know when it is completed. Big goals can be broken down into smaller “sub-goals,” which can then be broken down into tasks. To help you visualize your goals, you can choose a picture to represent each one from a selection of motivational stock photos (or upload your own.) GoalsOnTrack will then create a slideshow of the pictures associated with your goals that you can play any time you like. GoalsOnTrack claims that this will help you take advantage of the Law of Attraction.
When you sign into GoalsOnTrack, the first page you are presented with is your dashboard, which shows your active goals, the percentage of each goal you’ve completed, and any associated subgoals. The Goals page lets you see a more detailed view of each goal along with the associated picture, and the “Tasks” page enables you to drill down and see only tasks due in a specific time period. The “Habits” page lets you track new habits that you need to maintain to move toward your goals. The “Journal” page lets you keep a diary of things that you’d like to remember.
GoalsOnTrack isn’t a bad goal-setting app by any means, but I think Lifetick is a much better value. For $20/year, you can do just about everything that you can do with GoalsOnTrack, plus you can send yourself email reminders, customize the interface with drag-and-drop widgets and there’s an iPhone app. GoalsOnTrack costs a whopping $9.95 per month, and although there is a 60-day money back guarantee, there is no free trial. You can’t track how much time you’ve spent on a given task with Lifetick like you can with GoalsOnTrack, but there are also a variety of free apps available that offer this functionality.
Do you have a favorite app that helps you accomplish your goals? Let us know in the comments!
Our Rating of GoalsOnTrack
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Actually, it only costs $4 per year if you pay annually. That’s quite a difference in price compared to paying monthly. It’s disappointing that they don’t offer a free trial. They try to cover this with their 60-day money-back guarantee, but I’m not comfortable with putting money down til I’ve tried a product.
Thanks for pointing that out, Liora. I wasn’t about to pay for a whole year up front either- a free trial would have been nice. Also, I wish the cancellation process were easier- I had to email and explain why I wanted to cancel, and while I understand that it’s helpful for Harry to have that feedback, that seems like a bit of a hassle for the customer.
Just to complement your review here, GoalsonTrack does support time tracking, it tracks how much time you spend on tasks and goals, and can generate reports on your time usage by goals, and goal categories.
Another great feature is habits builder, which can help you build habits toward accomplishing difficult goals.
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I have checked several goal setting tools but was not happy
with those. Most of them have a strong focus on planning and
scheduling tasks. But since I have a system in place that works
for me (GTD, eGroupware, calendars, client software) I do not
want to switch to another software. Others have a user interface
which is not convenient enough and easy to use for me.
I want to concentrate on my goals, reviewing these regularly
(e.g. quickly in a few minutes every morning and more
thoroughly every Sunday) and tracking my progress every
evening in a matter of minutes.
Because I did not find a appropriate solution for me I started
to develop my own. A first version is available at
http://www.achievr.biz
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Cool, I’ll check it out. Thanks, Olaf!