Christian Adleta
Main Image (It changes when you click on the thumbnails)
The home page of the goal bar The settings for the individual goal The additional stats for the individual goal A gif of reaching todays goal
Goal Bar
Pace out your larger goals by focusing on what progress you can make today!

Features:

  • Focus on today's progress
  • See how much you need to complete to be on track
  • Adjust your goal date easily
  • See an estimate to completion based on today's progress
  • Choose your own colors for each bar of the progress bar
  • Show and hide advanced stats about your goal
  • Minimalist goal bar view mode

Background:

I haven't always been a goal-oriented person. Over time, and with practice I would set goals and see if I could achieve them. I read that if you write a goal down, its more likely to be achieved. I followed the S.M.A.R.T. goal structure, and learn about stretch goals. I started collecting and experimenting with different ways to look at goal setting and tracking. I started slowly leaning towards a visual way of tracking goals.


Notebook with my goals displayed in it
A small notebook I used to track my goals.

The second iteration of my visual goal tracker was a paper that I would create and print out at the beginning of every month. It would have that months goals, and the segments that I would need to complete them broken down over the course of the month.


Printed Goal Sheet
A printed goal sheet that I would use to track my goals.

I used this printed sheet idea for well over a year, until I decided I wanted to use something that would be digital. The problem that I ran into with the printed goal sheet was that I had to design the sheet by hand every month. I would have to measure out each goal, and its subparts in a program designed for digital illustration, not mathy goal bars.