HivePulse.app - New Goals functionality for focused and consistent activity on the Hive blockchain

I've been working to a new functionality on the HivePulse.app and after few iterations I am ready to release it: Goals. Through Goals you can define tangible daily activities to perform on the Hive blockchain that should help to be focused, consistent and simply to keep the eye on the ball. For sure it helps me and I hope that the community that started using this stats and insights app will find it useful as well. I am a goals driven person or some would say "a man with a plan", thus the new feature brings the extra motivation to be active in this ecosystem and also to get the acknowledgement for that. This missing piece could bring more engagement to the ecosystem and let's each of us even up our game if we want to, have the energy and the time for it. So let's see together what the new Goals functionality on the Hive Pulse app brings.

Goals section

The Goals section is the one where we can define for the browsed account the milestones that we want to achieve. At the moment these targets are defined per day and are automatically extrapolated to weekly, monthly and yearly metrics. And there are few goals that can be set at this stage and the app will not only store them, but it is able to track in real time. Here are the Goals (parameters) that one can set.

• Articles - set a goal of how many articles you want to write per day
• Comments - set the level of engagement through comments that you'll pass in a day
• Upvotes - set the number of upvotes you want to spread through curation
• Rewards (HP) - set a goal of how much HP you target to get back from the engagement and daily curation

Graphs section

The Graphs section for the set Goals is the one that gives us a visual presentation of our progress. You can see how you are finding yourself compared to the targeted milestones through a daily snapshot, but also weekly, monthly, yearly or overall. The Graphs are the one that reflect your affinity to the expressed goals and the hiccups encountered along the way. By having a visual presentation one can use that to adjust any of the goals.

Achievements section

The Achievements section is a 30 day snapshot to see if the Goals were achieved day by day. This view comes in addition to the graphs to offer a different perspective, which for some of us (or those accustomed with Excel or table views) might come more natural. Achieved or not, Goals can be afterwards redefined and it will show the results on all the Hive activity.

These are all the inner functionalities for the Goals page: define your goals, see how they evolve in time and track them day by day. For me the Goals bring more motivation and focus, for you it might be the same or more. But with it, we can now set some targets and try to reach them, regardless on how and where life pulls us. If set, in the corner of our mind, we will have some motivation to do an extra effort and try to achieve our goals day after day. Currently the goals refer to articles, comments, upvotes and rewards, but if you can think of additional items that can be added, I welcome any feedback on this. The Hive ecosystem might be complex even for new beginners, so having such goals might steer a newbie on the right path and the activities that he can do on the blockchain.