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Personal goals made public :)
A developer's personal goal-tracking system stored in a public GitHub repo, using markdown files as the persistence layer. It's one person's productivity workflow made visible, not a tool you install or a template with opinions baked in.
- The core idea — using git for accountability and versioning of personal goals — is genuinely clever and still holds up. You get a full history of what you planned vs. what you actually did.
- The weekly structure with an accomplishments archive gives a concrete, searchable record going back to 2014, which is more durable than any app.
- The happy-moments JSON files alongside the goal tracking show someone thinking about the emotional dimension of productivity, not just task completion.
- Abandoned in 2018 and the author herself notes she moved to a bullet journal — so the system she's advocating for is one she stopped using.
- This is not a repo you adopt; it's a repo you fork and gut. There's no tooling, no template generator, no automation — just someone else's files.
- 577 stars mostly reflects the novelty of the idea being shared publicly in 2014–2015, not ongoing utility. The concept spread as a blog post; the repo itself is just its artifact.
- No structure for anyone other than the original author — the goals, the format, and the cadence are all personal and would need to be rethought from scratch for anyone else.