Track your Activity
To get started, open the app on your Apple Watch and enter some information about yourself. Your Apple Watch lets you know when you reach your goals and it offers suggestions and encouragement to help you close your rings. Learn how to complete each ring below.
GoalEnforcer is a visual goal planning software that can help you plan, get focused and accomplish goals much faster than any other method. Its innovative interface lets you unleash the power of recursive visual thinking and increase your productivity. You can easily set and rearrange a goal achievment plan by dragging and dropping virtual objects. Nov 04, 2020 In Sessions, goals are called pledges which you input and indicate how many minutes you intend to do that every day. Then, it reminds you and lets you do it timing you until you finished it. The app is free to download but if you want to access unlimited pledges, the app only costs $0.99. Available for $3.99 on iOS and Android. Best Goal Tracking App Not cheap, but worth it! I have tried several goal tracking apps and this one takes the cake (as of Jul-2020, at least). The app has an easy to use interface that lets you do a fair amount of customization to create different types of activities, goals, and notes and categorize them the way you want.
Move
The Move ring shows how many active calories you've burned so far. Complete your daily Move goal by burning active calories every day. Active calories, unlike resting, are ones that you burn by standing or moving around. Get help earning Move and Exercise credit.
For users 13 years and younger, the Move ring shows how many minutes the user has spent actively moving around.
Exercise
The Exercise ring shows how many minutes of brisk activity you've completed so far. Complete your daily Exercise goal by exercising for at least 30 minutes each day. Learn how to meet your exercise goal.
Stand
The Stand ring shows hours in which you've stood and moved for at least a minute. Complete your daily Stand goal by standing up and moving around for at least 1 minute during 12 different hours in the day. Even if you stand all day, you still need to move around.
If you specify that you use a wheelchair, the Stand ring switches to the Roll ring. Roll shows hours in which you’ve pushed around for at least 1 minute.
Change your activity goals
You can adjust your goals at any time to better suit your activity levels.
- Open the Activity app on your Apple Watch.
- Swipe up, then tap Change Goals.
- Tap to increase or decrease the number of active calories for your daily Move goal, then tap Next.
- Tap to increase or decrease the number of minutes for your daily Exercise goal, then tap Next.
- Tap to increase or decrease the number of hours for your daily Stand goal, then tap Ok.
Check your Activity history
You can check your progress for the day on your Apple Watch, or check your entire history from the Fitness app on your iPhone.
On your Phone
- Open the Fitness app on your iPhone.
- Tap the History tab to see details about your all day activity. On the calendar, a green dot appears next to the days that you worked out.
- To see more detail, tap a day.
- To get information about a workout, such as your route or total distance, tap the Workouts tab, then tap the item.*
On your Apple Watch
- Open the Activity app on your Apple Watch.
- Swipe up to see details for each ring.
- Swipe up again to see more, like your total steps, your distance, and workouts.
- To see your weekly summary, firmly press the screen, then tap Weekly Summary.
Set reminders
- On your iPhone, open the Apple Watch app.
- Tap the My Watch tab, then tap Activity.
- Choose your notifications and reminders. For example, coaching notifications are based on your previous progress.
Learn more
- Share your activity with friends.
- What if I don't earn all my Activity credit?
- Earn Activity awards using your Apple Watch. With watchOS 6, you can see awards directly on your Apple Watch.
- Track your Trends in the Fitness app on your iPhone.
- Learn, create, and be inspired. Join hands-on sessions happening every day at the Apple Store. Find Today at Apple sessions near you.
* The metrics that appear depend on the type of workout. For example, route is available for outdoor walk, run, open water swim, or cycle workouts when you have GPS.
You’ve undoubtedly seen the abysmal statistics on how terrible we are at keeping New Year’s resolutions. Well, these top goal-setting apps might just give you a fighting chance – starting in January or whenever you have an important goal to achieve.
The problem with most goals is that they remain just that: lofty hopes and dreams for the future. But with a little planning and follow-through, they could turn into monthly milestones and weekly tasks and daily sub-tasks and eventually a check mark on one of your goal-setting apps.
Here are the top seven goal-setting apps recommended by entrepreneurs, who have some of the trickiest goals and the least free time – so you know these apps are efficient:
Any.do (free)
With over 10 million users, Any.do prides itself on merging daily tasks with personal goals. It encourages you to take a moment at the beginning of the day to plan, prompting you to decide which to-do’s and more periodic activities (like “call Mom” or “write a chapter of my book”) to put on the day’s list. Available for web, Android, iPhone, and Chrome.
“I use Any.do's calendar (and tasks app) to help me manage my day-to-day activities, which keeps things that I need to get done front and center for my life. That includes both daily activities like meetings but also more lofty items like quarterly goals I've set for myself and my team,” says Darren MacDonald, CEO and founder of Ingress Capital.
OptimizeMe ($3.99)
OptimizeMe is a quantified self app, so it gathers tons of data about you in order to provide insights about improving your life. For example, if your goal is to sleep more, it will correlate your sleep to other metrics like mood, health, and stress so you can see the results and be more motivated to hit the hay earlier. Available for iPhone.
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Mac os flowchart app. Pavel Liser of PhotoNotes says the app took a lot of effort to set up, but was ultimately worth it. “I started using OptimizeMe almost every day. The app works in a very smart way. Not only can you set your goals, see your progress, and evaluate yourself, but the app also gives you suggestions if you are behind on your goals. And it's not suggestions like ‘You should do less of X, to have more time for Y.’ No, OptimizeMe gives you suggestions personally tailored for your profile, sometimes even by adding new goals.”
Smart Goals ($2.99)
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Smart Goals breaks down the things you want to do into dreams, goals, and habits, from abstract to concrete, big-picture to detailed. Available for iPhone.
“For long-term goals, such as New Year’s resolutions, I use Smart Goals,” says Liser. “Two tabs – My Goals and My Dreams – are the ones that make this app perfect for long-term goals or future plans.”
Golden Scale (free)
Like Lift, Golden Scale has you “check in” to good habits you want to make (as well as bad habits you want to break). Available for iPhone.
“I use it because it's super easy to use – it's simply about setting goals and quitting bad habits, nothing else.and the app handles the two very gracefully without any other options slowing you down,” says Asya Rahim, founder of eStore Fresh.
Evernote (free)
Evernote is a note-taking app and so much more, and one of its uses is to keep track of goals. To do that, check out powerful ways to make the most of Evernote and how to use Evernote to achieve your goals. Available for desktop, iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone.
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“I like being able to organize an entire notebook with different goals and ideas. I have the attention span of a squirrel, so I have ideas and need to get them out ASAP. Evernote allows me to collect all thoughts and then evaluate when I’m ready to do projections and goals for 2015,” says Blake Denman, CEO of RicketyRoo.
Wunderlist (free)
https://dockbrown339.weebly.com/blog/citrix-apps-not-opening-on-mac. Wunderlist is a to-do list app favored by entrepreneurs for its beautiful, minimalistic design. You can access lists from all your devices, share lists with other people, and set reminders for yourself. Available for desktop, iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone.
“I use Wunderlist as a personal project- and goal-tracking app. It’s great for short-term to-do lists but I love it for longer projects, since you can break them down with sub-lists and really get a sense for how much work will go into different ideas. I permanently keep a ‘long-term life improvement’ list and take time in January to reassess what I’m looking to get out of the year,” says Megan Westerby, CMO of SideChef.
Boomerang for Gmail (free)
One of the hardest things about goals is simply remembering them. We get bogged down in the minutiae of day-to-day life, and responding to emails and tweets seems more important than pursuing our lifelong dream.
To keep your goals front and center, you can use Boomerang for Gmail to schedule emails to yourself with your goals, perhaps prompting yourself to write about your progress so far (and feel suitably ashamed if you’ve got nothing to share).
“I love to write myself an email with my 6-month goals, then boomerang it to come back after three months. It's incredibly motivating both to see what I wanted to accomplish, and see how much progress we've made. And the fact that it's an email popping back into my inbox makes it impossible to ignore!” says Kathryn Minshew, founder and CEO of The Muse.
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What are your favorite goal-setting apps?