This performance and accountability app argues actions speak louder than goals. Begin by entering the action, or habit, you want to track. Then weigh the action by assigning it a point value out. Paymo is a project management app and time tracker with a free plan that makes it easier for freelancers to plan, prioritize, and keep track of their work for multiple clients and projects. Add clients, add projects for those clients, and then add tasks to those projects.

These are just some of the nice journaling and note-taking apps available for OS X. Among the many others, there might be one of your preference. Don’t just sit there and read this paragraph; tell us all about it. This app has been praised as the premiere journal app for IOS. It stands out with its beautiful design and strong feature set. To create entries on the desktop requires purchasing the companion Mac app. The journaling category in the Mac and iOS App Stores is a little less crowded than other categories, but there are a few great contenders. Day One has been the best journaling app for Mac since it was first introduced in March 2011 and its iOS apps have held the crown ever since they were introduced. Never miss a moment with Day One’s simple, elegant interface. From once-in-a-lifetime events to everyday moments, Day One’s elegant interface makes journaling about your life a simple pleasure. Award Winning: App of the Year and Apple Design Award.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This article originally published on Feb. We all know the importance of setting goals – they hold you accountable, tell you what you truly want and help propel you forward. Whether you strive to get started on that new project, spend more time at home, launch a new product, or want to lose weight, many of us simply state our goals but fail to set deadlines and track our progress towards achieving our goals. Integrating your goals into your digital life is an easy way to keep your goals top of mind and help keep you motivated.

Some apps even allow you to make your goals public, helping to hold you accountable and garner support from friends and family. Try these six apps and finally cross some goals off your bucket list. Image credit: Relying on best practices in psychology and personal development principles, this goal-setting and personal-productivity app guides you through the process of goal setting – from recording your goal, its purpose, start and end date, to creating an action plan and tracking progress. Use one of ’s goal templates and customize your own action plan, then track progress by placing a checkmark beside completed tasks. This app also has a built-in goal journal allowing you to record your progress and a habit tracker that provides a visual guide of your successes. LifeTick (starting at $2.50/month for individuals or $14/month for business / Available for iPhone, Android and iPad).

Image credit: This goal-tracking app asks you to begin by establishing your core values, then similar to GoalsOnTrack, asks you to follow the S.M.A.R.T (specific, measurable, assignable, realistic, time-specific) goal-setting method and create tasks or steps that are required to achieve your goal. Check off achievements and review them in a date-sequenced journal of all of your goal-related activities.

Unlike GoalsOnTrack, allows you to invite others to view your progress. Your personal cheering squad can view your progress and add comments to keep you motivated along the way. There’s also a LifeTick for business so you can set team goals, assign tasks and track each individual’s progress. Irunurun (Free for personal version / Available on iPhone and iPad). This performance and accountability app argues actions speak louder than goals. Begin by entering the action, or habit, you want to track. Then weigh the action by assigning it a point value out of 100.

Your score at the beginning of the week will start at zero and will increase as you complete actions. If you complete each action entered at the appointed time each day, you would earn a perfect score of 100 for the week.

This app also allows you to share the experience with others. Invite friends, family or colleagues to any action and build an accountability team so they can encourage your progress. Makes three versions of this app – for personal, team and enterprise use. Image credit: If vision boards and pie charts aren’t enough to motivate you, perhaps you need the stickK approach. This app, developed by Yale University economists, will cost you real money if you fail to reach your goal.

A commitment contract binds you to a goal. Set your goal and the time frame you want to achieve it in, then state how much money you want to put on the line and where you want that money to go should you fail to reach your goal. Next, designate a referee to monitor your progress. This person acts as an independent third party who logs into the app to monitor your progress (you can also choose the honor systems and go it alone, without a referee). Need a little extra motivation?

You can also choose to have a panel of other supporters to be your cheering section and post motivational messages in your Commitment Journal – the place where you make daily entries on your progress.

BeanCounter Introduction Show Me The Money! For a quick demo, open the TestData/SafetyLight.beans document after you build the BeanCounter app. Now you know how well a flashlight app can sell in the iOS App Store.:-) A majority of the sales for came from a link at at the end of December 2009, but there was also a small blip in April 2012 thanks to a mention in Reader's Digest. As a way to thank my pal John Gruber for providing data in, I've donated the app's proceeds to his. What Problems Does This App Solve? As the has moved a significant part of our business to the App Store, we encountered some major discrepancies with the iTunes Connect financial reports: • No per-product reporting in a common currency — How much did we earn in all regions with Product A vs. • No aggregate reporting of multiple SKUs — How much did we earn with Product C and all its in-app purchases?