Granted only you can actually improve your life, the following are five great sites which can help you achieve success in several areas.
1. Buxfer
Description: Easy to use and with a clean UI, Buxfer allows you to easily track your income and expenses, and set up budgets. Unlike other similar sites, you don’t have to provide your online banking credentials if you don’t want to. It also has support for Google Gears to work offline and store your financial information locally.
Why: Stress free personal finance management.
Honorable mention: mint.com
URL: buxfer.com
2. Remember the milk
Description: A feature-rich task management application full of bells and whistles, including support for tagging, priority, scheduling, sharing, and so on. It works very well for those following the principles behind Getting Things Done (GTD). Despite its many features, the UI is clean, fast and well thought-out, so it’s fairly easy to make it work for you. Several keyboard shortcuts are available, minimizing the amount of time you need to spend entering data. It integrates with Gmail and Google Calendar as well.
Why: Smart TODO management.
Honorable mention: tadalist.com
URL: rememberthemilk.com
3. RescueTime
Description: Upon installing a client on your computer (Mac or Windows), your application and website usage will be securely tracked. Reports are available online and by email. Privacy cautious users can define what gets tracked and what doesn’t, through a whitelist mechanism. By using tags is possible to group applications and sites in order to track the amount of time spent, for example, on a given project.
Why: Keep track of where your time goes.
Honorable mention: 8aweek.com
URL: rescuetime.com
4. Joe’s Goals
Description: They say that goals are dreams with a deadline. Achieving goals requires clarity of what you want to accomplish and tracking your progresses. Joe’s Goals has an extremely simple interface to track whether you worked towards a given goal or not, on a daily basis. It couldn’t get any easier than this, but it can be very effective in reminding you of your “resolutions”.
Why: Stay focused on your goals one day at a time.
Honorable mention: daily-actions.com
URL: joesgoals.com
5. SparkPeople
Description: A great social network of people who are interested in dieting and living a healthy lifestyle. The site offers diet plans, diet and exercise tracking, great articles, daily newsletters and blogs. It’s by far the best of its kind.
Why: Encouragement and tips for healthy living.
Honorable mention: traineo.com
URL: sparkpeople.com
So what do you think about them? What are some other sites that you find truly invaluable to aid you in organizing your life?
Link correction: rememberthemilk.com
I also want to plug Wesabe for financial tracking, but it’s more focused on tracking than budgeting.
Thanks for spotting the broken link, Dave; I’ve corrected the typo. I heard about Wesabe but never tried it, so I’m going to give it a shot.
Thank you for the suggested sites. The only problem I had with buxfer.com is that they are US centric.
Since this is and there is life outside the USA, e.g. I am from the UK, is it possible to list an equivalent multicultural site that does the same thing?
Great post. I see that Mint.com received and honorable mention.
I just published a post about Mint on my site today.
I’ve used RememberTheMilk extensively and it’s great. I’ll have to check out your other suggestions.
I am also interested in a more “international” alternative to buxfer.com, mint.com etc. Anybody know of anything?