SansPoint

The biggest problem with using online tools to handle life tasks is accessibility. Take, for example, Joe’s Goals. I’d originally set up an account with Joe’s Goals to allow me to keep track of personal goals and break a couple bad habits. It worked to an extent. I can credit Joe’s Goals with helping me stop biting my nails, at least. However, in using it further, I ran into a wall—I have to open a web browser, bring up the site through my bookmark, and then check off the accomplished tasks. This is too much for me, it seems.

I tried a few ways around it, though none were successful. My favorite was using the Dash Clipping Widget to hold my Joe’s Goals checklist, but the scale of it (9 goal items) was too much. The widget was damned huge. Joe’s Goals displays a week’s worth of goals at once, with the current day on the far right. The week grid alone is a good 530 pixels wide. Then, counting the goal descriptions themselves, and the tallies at the far right, we have a box with the total width of nearly 800 pixels. Running at 1280×1024, having this widget left me without a lot of room for anything else.

Pass.

I’ve decided to set Joe’s Goals as my browser start page now, but I’d prefer to simply have a small Dashboard widget I could use to track goals, something small, maybe showing five days. I don’t need the ability to check off daily goals more than once: just to be able to check “Done” or not. Positive and negative goals, like Joe’s Goals functionality would be a bonus, but I could work around it not being there.

Some nice widget developer, please get on this.