Need an extra bump of motivation to take your goals to the next level? In our new No Excuses Mode, pledge an amount of money to lose if you miss your daily target. Follow your customized plan through to the end though, and you get to keep your cash!
This is a totally opt-in feature for those Pacemaker users who want to add a bit of… muscle to their goal tracking!
E-mail us at pacemaker.project@gmail.com to be notified when it becomes available!
More details to follow! Stay tuned!
We’re excited to roll out Pacemaker‘s new look!
Now the features you use most often are just a click away! Our new collapsible left navigation bar is stacked with bite-sized bits of information so that at a glance, you get a snapshot of your commitments, and easy access to other settings.
Here are some features we hope you’ll find particularly helpful:
We’ve even made the nav bar collapsible which makes the site a lot less visually overwhelming, so that you see more of what you want when you want it, and less of what you don’t want when you don’t!
Adding the day’s Progress has never been easier than it is now. Simply select your plan in the left nav and click ‘Add Progress’ when it loads. That’s right- no more need to click through 3 or 4 links to get there!
The Team has worked really hard on putting this together based on your feedback, and delivery of this product is part of our commitment to continuing to build a Pacemaker experience for you that you would be proud to use and share with others.
So, if you haven’t already, log in today to play around with it. As always, your feedback drives development and innovation on Pacemaker, so let us know if you have any recommendations for further improvements!
Stay safe out there everyone!
NaNoWriMo is the highlight of the year for us at Pacemaker! It’s like Pacemaker Christmas! The mood changes, we hear from users we haven’t heard from in a while, we meet new people and exchange kind words and even exchange gifts- you give us the gift of amazing feature requests, and we give you the gift of new features!
We even have our own version of ‘Christmas Decorating’. We spruce up the site, exterminate some pesky old bugs, and deck Pacemaker’s halls with exciting new features!
This NaNo season’s decorating includes a few new ways to help you feel encouraged and productive. We hope you’ll get a burst of happiness and an explosion of joy when you see what we’ve done with the place… I could tell you more but why tell you when I can show you? Just head over to the site, dust off an old plan or create a new one, and update your progress! This is just a small taste of what’s to come over our next few updates, so definitely stay tuned!
Happy NaNoWriMo 2019!
A few months ago Pacemaker went to the Gym! This week, we’re going to the Bank!
If you can use Pacemaker to track how much you write or read, or even run or train, why not how much you can save or even spend as well?!
Here are 3 ways to save, let’s say, $1000 in 3 months:
With the Rising to the Challenge strategy, I’ll save anywhere between $1 on the low end, and $21 on the high end, each day for 3 months, while Oscillating will have me saving between $6 and $17 daily. With Steadily though, I’ll tuck away about $11 each day.
You can play around with it yourself, here.
But then, of course, I’m me and not someone else who’s particularly diligent at saving! So it may not be realistic for me to accept a schedule which asks me to put something aside every single day for 3 months. This isn’t impossible, but it is improbable, at least for me because, you know: birthdays, bakeries, general indiscipline… bakeries). SO here’s that plan another 3 ways, this time, more realistically for me:
This Rising to the Challenge plan, starts me off easy with very low daily saving amounts, and allows me to skip my birthday week, and weekends. The most I ever have to save on any day is $35. I think I can manage that for 3 months.
Meanwhile this Oscillating plan will allow me to once again skip saving during my birthday week and on weekends, but I only have to set aside between $9 and $25 on saving days, to reach the same 1K goal in 3 months.
On the other hand, this plan allows me to Steadily work towards my savings goal by setting aside roughly the same amount every day. Even with skipping my birthday week and weekends again, with about $17/saving day, I can still hit that 1K goal in 3 months.
As usual, Pacemaker is showing me that whether little by little, or a lot by a lot, getting to my goal is possible!
So! Do you think Pacemaker can help you create savings plans? Or maybe you’ve thought of other quantitative goals you’d like to see incorporated, or even a write-in option? Just let us know! If there’s enough interest, we just might do it!
We’ve added a few fitness variables to the Pacemaker tool, did you notice?
Now you can track not only the words/pages you write, but you can track the distance you run or the amount of time you train!
So maybe you want to run 10k a day for 1 month– no weekends because…10K a day!:
Or perhaps you want to do the equivalent of 3 FULL DAYS– that’s 72 hours- of exercise per month:
Or maybe you’re like us and want to try to cover 400 miles in 3 months? Check out our [over-ambitious] pacemakerplan here:
Yea… we’re not gonna make it 🙃 but YOU can with your very own fitness pacemakerplan!
We’ve added just a few variables to begin with but we are more than open to adding more depending on interest. So, what do you think? Adapt Pacemaker to include fitness goals… do we dare?
