Okay, so, I had to do a few creative things because I don’t really know
what I’m doing. For one, there’s no tagging and I don’t think the goal
statement is accessible through the API, so I use creative goal naming to
tag my goals.
Here’s how it works:
Workout sub-goals, like particular exercises, are tagged with "(Workout)"
at the end of the goal’s title [e.g.: “Crunch (Workout)”]. The slug doesn’t
matter. These goals are all automatically added to the list of autodialed
goals that will increase in difficulty over time. Also, I store them all on
the back burner (below the line, using the minus symbol in the top right of
the goal’s chart on the goal page) to keep them from cluttering things up.
I keep them set to $0 (because there are 16 of them!). But, if they derail,
I can choose to bump them up to $5 when putting them back on track, and
then start a countdown back to $0 to ensure that I don’t fall off of them
again for the following week. (I usually don’t, though, since there’s a
meta-goal called “Strength Training” that covers those and that is attached
to a $ contract.)
Okay, now the other goals:
They are labelled things like:
Work Hours dd wk oA FY
and each goal has four pairs of letters to tag them with.
The first pair is either “dd” or "AD"
dd = don’t dial
AD = auto-dial (these are the ones that will have the roads auto-dialed to
the average so far when I click the link to do so)
The second pair is one of “am”, “wk”, “pm”, or "lt"
am = part of my morning routine
wk = part of my work routine
pm = part of my evening routine
lt = limit (such as bad habits or something that you need to track all of
the time)
The point of this is so that I can have a dashboard that shows me my goals
in order of when I tend to do the things. It only shows me the goals that
are going to derail that day or the day after, or the goals that need daily
data entered and haven’t received it yet. I try to do cardio in the
morning, so it’s tagged with “am”, but I use my “projects” goal at work, so
it’s tagged with “wk”. My “bad habit” goal has no specific time, so it’s
tagged with “lt”
The third pair is has either the first letter “o” or “D” and the second
letter of either “A” or "B"
o = occasional
D = daily
A = Above
B = Below
This tells my dashboard whether the goal needs a datapoint every day (“D”,
like for the size of an email inbox or bedtime or something – usually
connected to the kind of goals that would be well-suited to pessimistic
presumptives) or just when there happens to be one (“o” like recording a
bad habit, which you hope you won’t have to record every day)
The Above/Below distinction is to tell my dashboard whether it gets set in
one of the “set a limit” areas or not.
For example: “Work Hours dd wk oA FY” is tagged with “oA” because it
doesn’t require that I enter a datapoint every day and it’s a goal where
I’m trying to stay above the line but “Email Zero dd wk DB FY” is tagged
with "“DB” because it’s a goal for which I want to make sure I enter a
datapoint every day, and it’s a set-a-limit goal. "Bad Habit AD lt oB fn"
is a goal that represents a habit I’m trying to break. Like the email goal,
it’s tagged as “B” for below, but it might not require a datapoint every
day, so it’s “oB”. (You’ll notice that it’s also an auto-dial goal, so that
I can ease myself out of my bad habit! …theoretically)
The final pair is either “fn” or "FY"
fn = friends can’t see it
FY = friends can see it
I’ve created a special dashboard for others doing similar things and they
can see my goals there. I wanted to make sure they could only see the goals
with which I was comfortable, though, so I tag those with “FY” and the
other with “fn”. You can just put xx there, though, if you don’t want to
have to change the code to ignore it.
That all comes to a dashboard that is probably more of a “show” than "tell"
so I’m going to attach an image here. (I’m deleting some goals because
they’re private to me, but I think you’ll get the gist without them. (Oh,
speaking of pictures, each goal has a picture associated to it. It makes it
easier to find, and it provides a touch of motivation.)
Anyway, I’m sure there are better ways than this, but I stopped trying to
improve it once it mostly did what I want. If anyone wants to run with it,
go nuts!
Files next.
(PS - Sorry for the grainy picture. The max size is 2000 pixels)
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