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jackBeeminder tracks resolutions of any sort.
It's built on the idea that you can precommit to paying a monetary penalty (to charity). I found even mentioning that idea was a bit overkill, and simlpy signing up was a sufficient commitment, but if you want to make a resolution and fear you may simply forget about it it may be useful.
I decided to track my gym-going there as well fitocracy. I've only done it for one week, but it seems a fairly good idea for recording "have I kept this resolution or not" and I intend to try it for any other habits I want to cement.
I found the interface very confusing, though. I expected "I want to do this twice a week" to be really obvious (especially given the cute little bee icon!) but it seemed jargon-y (there were three or four suggested 'get started' but it wasn't obvious to me what the differences were). I have a feeling I may have missed an introductory "get started by doing this" page or something.
It's built on the idea that you can precommit to paying a monetary penalty (to charity). I found even mentioning that idea was a bit overkill, and simlpy signing up was a sufficient commitment, but if you want to make a resolution and fear you may simply forget about it it may be useful.
I decided to track my gym-going there as well fitocracy. I've only done it for one week, but it seems a fairly good idea for recording "have I kept this resolution or not" and I intend to try it for any other habits I want to cement.
I found the interface very confusing, though. I expected "I want to do this twice a week" to be really obvious (especially given the cute little bee icon!) but it seemed jargon-y (there were three or four suggested 'get started' but it wasn't obvious to me what the differences were). I have a feeling I may have missed an introductory "get started by doing this" page or something.
Re: Deconfusing Beeminder
Date: 2012-12-11 11:13 pm (UTC)I feel a little bad because I've often been in the situation of trying to make something awesome, and feel annoyed if someone quits in three minutes because it didn't just happen to give them instant gratification. But it's also the case that I was extremely busy, so three minutes was about as long as I had to spend :)
I did in fact set up a weekly exercise goal and it did work fine, I was just a little confused by getting started. I think the main problem was that I wanted to start by setting a "do this twice a week" goal, but in fact the site is a lot, lot more valuable for recording actual numeric goals (and I'd unreservedly recommend it for that). But that meant I didn't get why things were the way they were.
Here's us committing to an average of 1 user-visible improvement to Beeminder per day: http://beeminder.com/meta/uvi
LOL, that's awesome.