This month the St. James Place Blog is featuring several apps to help you keep your New Year’s resolutions this year. Whatever your resolutions is — whether it's to eat healthier, manage your budget, or organize your time — we’ve got an app to help you achieve your goals.
Read More
If your resolution is to read more in the coming year, You-Log Reading can help you out. You-Log Reading tracks the books you’ve been reading, how long you’ve read, how many pages you read each day, and even lets you take notes. It’s an easy way to keep track of your progress as you tackle your reading goal this year.
Run Your First Race
Couch to 5k is an awesome way to start training for your first list. This app allows you to make your own workout plan, syncs with your playlists, and tracks how far you’ve run. You even get your own “virtual coach” to help inspire you when the running gets tough. It also tracks your pace, so you’ll know just how fast you’ve run each day.
Make Healthier Choices
Weight Loss Coach by Fooducate is a great way to start eating healthier. It helps you track just how much you eat each day, gives food a “nutrition grade” (letting you see just how healthy that microwaveable rice or packaged salmon is), and connects you to a community of other people who are trying to eat healthier.
Manage Your Budget
Need to save up so that you can finally take that dream vacation to Barcelona? Mint can help you out. Mint helps you organize your financial life so that you can dream up a realistic budget and save for your next weekend on the beach. Mint also gives you a free credit score and tracks your investments.
Organize Your Time
Things is a pricier app, but it’s proved to be a great way to manage your to-do lists. Forbes says this about the app: “The Apple program (Things, now on version 2) is one of the great tools for actually getting things done. It breaks down even the most daunting tasks into achievable, bite-size chunks and brings list-making into the Internet era. To use the program on your phone, iPad or computer, just type in everything you need to do, whether a single chore, like clearing out a closet, or such weekly projects as taking out the recycling. You can put a time limit on when tasks need to be completed and group many individual jobs into larger projects or categories like family and work. Every day, Things presents you with a checklist so you don’t forget anything. (You can print or share this digitally.)”
Do you have any great apps for us to use? Do you know of any great New Year’s events in the Milwaukee area? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading!