The Internet is a fabulous place full of both distractions and tools. Those free and low cost tools come in handy when you are trying to keep track of your life, including keeping those New Years resolutions. Much more than just a social place, the Internet can be useful in ways you never imagined.
Some of the places online that can help you keep your resolutions you are already familiar with. Two of these well known sites are Google’s Docs and Remember The Milk. Google Docs integrates office applications with email and a calendar. The calendar includes reminders and agenda items, and it useful in getting your resolutions on a schedule, complete with reminders. You can even share the calendar and docs with coworkers and family and get help keeping those resolutions.
Remember The Milk is a simple list keeping site that helps you remember everything form your grocery list to your life list. Remember The Milk now integrates with Google’s Calendar, too, so if you are more comfortable with the list interface in Remember The Milk but need the calendar reminder from Google you can now have the best of both worlds.
Other sites recommend a variety of other online applications to help you stay the course. Two simple goal trackers that made the list are Don’t Break The Chain and Joe’s Goals. Don’t Break The Chain takes the simple concept of crossing days off a calendar when you complete a task and brings it online. It’s very simple to use, with a straightforward interface. Joe’s Goals is another easy to use list keeping and goal tracking site with a clear graphic interface to track your goals to completion.
Some people make fitness or weight loss resolutions, or a health related resolution like quitting smoking. If you have health goals, there are an abundance of web sites out there to help you keep in line, from Fit Day and Traineo to FitWatch and Gimme20. Most of the online trackers are simple goal keeping and calorie counting sites that may include a way to track exercise as well. Gimme20 and Traineo are actual social networking site for fitness, set to appeal to the MySpace and FaceBook sets. If quitting smoking is your goal, the folks at stop smoking community QuitNet can help you out.
If getting organized offline is your goal, sites like Online Organizing can help you find offline resources for your goals. Maybe you need to clean out those closets or the attic, or maybe you just need a better way to track your finances and bill payments. Whatever you need in the real world, there is a web sites out there to help you find it. If you do better at keeping resolutions when the whole world can help keep you accountable for them, try putting a Bellygraph on your blog or site. That way everyone who visits can follow your progress and nag you about keeping your resolutions. How are you using the internet to be better at being you this year?
