If last week’s post was a look back at 2011, this one must be a look ahead at 2012. I’ll be finishing one novel revision, outlining and drafting another that I’ve already done a bunch of planning on, writing 4+ short stories, and considering doing another novel (which currently exists as a vague idea) for nanowrimo. I’ve got a schedule laid out in a timeline program so I can check that I’m not planning on doing too many things at once.
I’m also picking a couple habits to focus on each month. (More than one because most of them are things that are almost habits already, or else are old habits that I want to rekindle. Otherwise it’s hard to establish more than one new habit at a time.) These are exciting things like reading before bed and stretching every day–some health related, some writing related, some other stuff.
After a long search, I finally found an app that will let me check things off each day: GoalTracker. It’s pretty clearly designed for parents/kids, but putting butterfly stickers on a weekly chart will make my inner eight-year-old happy too. Plus it has pretty much no analytics features, so I won’t waste time thinking too hard about this. I just want to not clutter up my to do list or calendar, and put stickers in boxes. And maybe collect trophies.
If you’re hunting for something similar but want more analysis or a web-based tool (or something more grown up), 42goals and Joe’s goals both look pretty good.