Esplorio vs Goalee

Your automatic travel diary.

Esplorio - The simplest way to record and share your travels. Web and iPhone. Turn on Esplorio and integrate with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare/Swarm, Instagram, Picasa and TripIt to see a complete travel diary/journal/log of your past and future travels.

Key features:
* Integrates and uses your existing favorite social networks
* iPhone app can not only track the routes of your travels but automatically check-in and uses 5-10% of your battery life in a day
* Curate and share your trips
* Automatically get achievements and stats as you travel
* Everything is private until you explicitly share
* 5 million unique places visited by our users already across 120 countries.

Don’t lose sight of your life’s goals

The main idea behind the app is that all the annoyances, conflicts or small problems we face in our everyday lives (should) pale in comparison with our true goals in life.

The issue I faced, as many others, is that I tend to lose track of what I desire most, exactly because of problems here and there. One approach is to start writing down your goals on a sheet of paper, which I did and it worked; for a while, because I eventually started overlooking said sheet of paper.

I then tried using to-do apps, or habit tracking apps for this purpose. But this isn’t something to be checked off, something to record progress of, nor a habit to build; it’s a mindset change, if you will. So I ended up building Goalee to add long/mid-term goals and remind myself about them on a daily/weekly basis.