What's the difference between the goal types?

Each of the six main goal types works differently from the other five in various ways, and each is best suited to a particular objective and requires data to be entered a certain way. Bee Plus and Beemium subscribers also have access to custom goals, which enable more settings for user configuration and let you create very specific behaviour. Here's a quick rundown:

• Do More: something I want to do more of, where you enter today's amount, e.g. “times I go to the gym” (enter +1 when complete)
• Do Less: something I want to do less of, where you enter today's amount, e.g. “number of chicken nuggets eaten“ (enter +1 for each chicken nugget eaten)
• Odometer: something I want to have more of, where you enter a running total amount, e.g. “pages of War and Peace I have read so far” (enter your current page number)
• Whittle Down: something I want to have less of, where you enter a running total amount, e.g. “emails currently in my inbox flagged as urgent” (enter the number of emails)
• Lose Weight: track your weight, which you want to decrease (enter current weight)
• Gain Weight: track your weight, which you want to increase (enter current weight)
• Custom: you can switch all the settings yourself and create crazy mashups of the other 6 goal types

Each goal type is described in much more detail on the linked pages!

Keywords: goal types, goal fields, goal parameters, types of goals