Top 10 Apps for Goal Setting and Increasing Productivity

If you are a traditional person who’s used to creating to do-lists to achieve your goals, then you’ll be surprised by the solutions that technology developed to help us save time, effort, and be more efficient. Here are ten tools that will help you easily identify, track, and achieve your goals:

1. Strides:
Strides allows you to change your personal habits by tracking any of your activities such as working out, saving money, and sleeping, and you can set alerts to follow your plan to make sure you reach your goals. Your data is synchronized and connected to your account, allowing you to see the latest statistics and developments.

2. Todoist:
Todoist was praised because it keeps all your tasks in one place, and for integrating perfectly with other tools. You can use Todoist on any device, online and offline. It allows you organize lists, prioritize, and collaborate with others to develop plans.

3. Goalscape:
A goal-setting program that helps you identify, work on, and achieve the most important tasks for life, business, coaching, and education. It allows you to have a visual presentation of your goals and tasks, and allows you to share your goals with anyone who can help you achieve them.

4. iMindmap:
A software for mind mapping ,brainstorming, and project planning and it aims to make users unlock their greatest potential. The software makes project planning simple by visualizing all data, and capture your best ideas by visually organizing your thoughts.

5. Any.do:
This application allows you to each day’s tasks and important events in a single view in a monthly calendar. It received positive reviews for its ease of use and award winning design.

6. ATracker:
This app allows you track the time you need to finish tasks to organize your daily routine so that you don’t waste anytime. You will be able to see your daily work graphically and the app will give you a bigger picture of your activities during the week.

7. focusbooster:
This application is based on the Pomodoro technique, which is a time management method that breaks down work into short intervals separated by short breaks. The app is targeted at individuals who tend to procrastinate and feel overwhelmed by tasks. It is designed to enhance focus and eliminate any anxiety you might have due to time pressures.

8. Wunderlist:
This is a general application for task management, and it is very effective for changing habits and achieving long-term goals by allowing you to divide large goals into sub-tasks. If you want to achieve tasks with a team, this application allows multiple users to participate.

9. RescueTime:
This application prevents you from wasting time. It will monitor your use of the phone, identify activities that consume your time, and show you statistics in graphical formats in which you can compare the different activities that consume most of your time.

10. Self Control:
This application allows you to write a list of sites that are distracting (for example, social networking sites), then write down the time period you want these sites to stay hidden from you. This will help you focus on your work and will increase your productivity greatly.