Noted: 5 tools to boost your goal setting
Being able to keep track of your goals is a key step to achieving them. It means you not only know where you need to get to, but also helps you see the progress you’ve made. With a variety of digital tools out there to track your goals, we’ve put together a list of our top five resources to make achieving your goals easier.
Side note: the 5 apps listed below all have FREE versions which means you can download and take your goal setting up a notch straight away. You can also try them out without any serious commitment and see which is best for you before upgrading to a paid if you feel you need it
1. OneNote
OneNote is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It’s free to download on all platforms. If you love to journal, you’ll love the app’s free-form design and the feeling it gives you of collating your thoughts as you track your goals. Take notes, add files and images, annotate entries and save voice notes. In OneNote, you write in notebooks, so you can dedicate one to a goal and chronologically record your progress towards it and remind yourself of the steps you need to take moving forward.
2. Notion
Notion is another application that provides access to a variety of resources to help you organise and prioritise your goals. It’s accessible cross platform, easy to navigate, offers a range of templates and plugs in to a lot of other useful apps and services. Notion is great for note taking and project management, which makes it useful for tracking personal goals and team objectives. Integrated features like to-do lists and calendars help streamline the tyranny of multiple open tabs, making it easier to bring all the information and resources you need in one place.
3. Way of Life
Way of Life is a daily tracker app that makes it easier to start and keep good habits while letting go of bad ones. Its reminder system and progress charts keep you motivated and let you see how well you’re doing. If you're struggling to keep on top of the goals you’ve set yourself, try Way of Life.
4. ClickUp
ClickUp is a one-stop-organising-shop of an app, designed to bring all your goal-setting, project-managing skills and needs in one place. ClickUp helps you set personal and team goals, break each of them down into smaller tasks and organise them by priority.
5. Todoist
PCmag.com rates Todoist as ‘the absolute best to-do list app we’ve tested’. Use Todoist to create lists that turn big goals into actionable steps that help you achieve your task. You can also set tasks by completion date, giving yourself the feeling that you are ticking tasks off as you go and working towards your goal each day. Todoist can be connected across platforms and devices so your goals stay front of mind and present in your regularly used applications.
