Goel (WIP)

Goel is a small tool that helps you keep track of your life goals.

Features

• Goel lets you define your life goals and will remind you of them regularly at specified intervals.
• It will regularly ask you what your barriers and achievements you had since the last reminder, so as to give you a sense of what is holding you back and what is facilitating your progress.

⚠️ Since possibly any tool can be used wrongly: Please do your own research on productivity and motivation and perhaps consult a mental health professional that you trust first if you're struggling with mental health issues and are thinking about using Goel!

⚠️ If Goel makes you feel guilty about not achieving your goals, you should probably not use it, since a big part of self-actualization consists in accepting who we are, not trying to achieve something with much pressure (talking from experience). Working through your feelings with self-compassion is probably much healthier in the long run.

Installation

Windows

Download the Installer from the Releases section and install it.

macOS

Download the .dmg-file from the Releases section and move the contained Application to your Applications folder.

Linux

Currently, there is only an AppImage and a Binary available for Linux. Download the package you would like to use from the Releases section and run it.

Development

Goel is based on Tauri and uses Solid.js for the web based frontend. To start a development server, run:

npm install
npm run tauri dev

Local Database for Development

By default, Goel will use the user's AppCache directory for storing application data. For development, you can place a .env file in src-tauri with a DATABASE_URL environment variable set.

Example:

DATABASE_URL=./development.sqlite

Testing

Rust

Simply run cargo test in the src-tauri directory.

Frontend

Before tests can be run, tauri-driver needs to be installed using cargo install tauri-driver. Also, you need to run npm install in the webdriver/webdriverio directory.

To run tests, change into the webdriver/webdriverio directory and run npm test.

To do

Priority: High

• Test on Windows/macOS
• Open Window on tray icon left / double click

Priority: Medium

• Implement: Start with system setting
• Character limit for goals descriptions and reflect input
• Delete button in goal reflect view
• Manual track progress for goal
• Ensure correct formatting for displayed reflections
• Fix display of switch when changed font size
• Fade gradients at top and bottom of scroll areas

Priority: Low

• Start implementing localization
• Support Mouse Back button where applicable
• Goal steps to completion
• Store all dates/times in UTC
• Nice looking scroll bars cross platform
• Display special screen after finishing tracking all pending goals
• Make skip goal undoable
• Advanced form validation
• Animations for everything
• Add shortcuts handling
• Close add goal modal on esc
• Add tooltips
• Show some info regarding goal progress when finishing tracking a goal
• Automatic update
• Selectable display types for goel track history (horizontal, vertical, thread)
• Convert db and tauri command errors to an error type that supports previous errors

Ideas

• Display quotes from literature about reaching your goals when finishing the tracking