Lifetick: Accomplish your goals

There is so much emphasis in many web apps placed upon business productivity that often personal productivity and life goals get pushed aside. Lifetick.com is very refreshing. Lifetick is an incredibly well thought out and nicely designed application that allows its users to create, maintain and complete their personal life goals.

After a quick verification email (cough), users are instructed to designate their "core values" or whatever things they hold highest, such as "Happiness" or "Career" or "Finances". There is a pretty tight word limit on this, which was a bit annoying, but I can see why they want to keep this to one or two short words. A pie chart then segments out each value as you add it, which is a neat visualization.

Once core values are set, specific goals can then be created and tied into each core value. This is where Lifetick shines. You remember back in kindergarten, or at some random point in your youth when your teachers sat you down and you wrote down goals? That was simple and easy...but you then later learned in high school that goals didn't mean crap if they weren't specific, had dates, we're reasonably able to be accomplished, and all that business? We'll that's what Lifetick does, it puts your goals into perspective in such an efficient way that a goal as daunting as "Get out of $100,000,000 debt" would seem simple. Oh, and you can set email reminders so you don't miss a thing. You really do get a warm and fuzzy feeling that you get after you have put all of your ideas that you dream about under one clean interface.

There's two other features that I didn't get a chance to test because they were blocked off by a "You need to pay to use this" pop-up: Status and Journal. I find it interesting (and quite silly) that these two features require a subscription ($20/yr), as they aren't a crux of the app. The Status section gives reports on when things were completed, etc...and the Journal is a log of all your activity on Lifetick (ie: Log-in times/goal creation dates). You still get all of the functionality you need just by using the free version.

Does the app fulfill its intended purpose?	9
How clean and simplistic is the UI?	10
Is the app forward thinking and innovative?	8
How re-usable is the app?	10
Overall	9.25

Overall, Lifetick is great. It executes goal setting and lays out goal completion in a really simple way, regardless of the size of the goal. I won't pay to use their "premium" features, but I'll probably use it to plan out the next few years of my life- if I can only find the time to put in all of my goals.

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UPDATE // 9.4.08 @ 8:24pm: Lifetick has new features, post here.