Weekly goal tracker — see your week fill up
Set the goals that matter for the week — gym sessions, sales calls, pages written — give each a target count, then tick off progress as you go. Each goal gets a live progress bar, and an overall percentage rolls everything up so you can see how your whole week is tracking at a glance. It is a lightweight habit and target tracker with no sign-up.
How it works
You name a goal and set a weekly target (at least 1). The plus and minus buttons adjust that goal’s completed count, which is clamped between 0 and the target — so you can never go negative or overshoot 100 percent. Each goal’s bar shows done ÷ target as a percentage, and the headline figure totals every goal:
overall % = (sum of all completed counts) ÷ (sum of all targets) × 100
Worked example
Suppose you add three goals: Gym (target 4), Read (target 5), and Calls (target 10). After a few days you have logged 2 gym sessions, 3 reads, and 4 calls. The individual bars read 50%, 60%, and 40%, while the overall figure is (2 + 3 + 4) ÷ (4 + 5 + 10) = 9 ÷ 19 = 47%.
Progress is capped at each target, so 100 percent really means done. Everything runs in your browser and is never uploaded.
What to track here — and what to skip
The tool is designed for countable, repeating actions within a single week. It works well for:
- Frequency goals: workouts, meditation sessions, cold showers — anything with a clear “did it” moment.
- Output goals: pages written, calls made, pull requests merged, items shipped.
- Learning targets: chapters read, practice problems solved, minutes of language study.
It is less suited to ongoing projects with fuzzy completion (for those, an Eisenhower matrix or a sprint board works better) or goals where you want to track cumulative totals across weeks (use a habit-tracking spreadsheet for that).
Getting useful weekly targets
Setting the right target number matters as much as the goal itself. A few principles that help:
- Make targets stretch but achievable. If your gym target is 7 but you actually manage 3 most weeks, the bar permanently reads 43% and stops motivating. Start with what you honestly expect, not your ideal.
- Weight important goals higher by making the target bigger. A goal with a target of 10 contributes more to the overall percentage than one with a target of 2, which means it shows up more in the aggregate score — useful if some goals genuinely matter more this week.
- One tracker, one week. Because the tracker resets each session, it nudges you to review and re-enter goals each week rather than carrying forward stale commitments from last month. That weekly reset is a feature: it forces a quick reflection on whether last week’s priorities still apply.
Common mistakes
- Setting too many goals at once. Five or six well-chosen targets is usually enough — beyond that, the overall percentage becomes too diluted to read at a glance.
- Mixing countable and binary goals. Binary goals (either done or not) work fine with a target of 1: “Submit report — target 1”. Just tap plus once when it is done.
- Forgetting to check in mid-week. The visual bars only help if you actually look at them. A quick daily or every-other-day review takes 30 seconds and keeps the momentum visible.