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90-day goal trackerNinety days is long enough to matter,
short enough to stay real.

A year is too long to feel. Nothing you do in March changes how December looks until roughly November, which is why annual goals get abandoned in week five without anybody noticing. Ninety days is the shortest span that can still hold something significant, and the longest one you can keep in your head at once.

Free, no sign-up. Saves in your browser, downloads as a PDF or a spreadsheet, and imports into EvyOS in one click.

The goal

The twelve weeks

One row a week. Fill it in on the same day each week and the plan runs itself.

The one thing this weekWhat actually happenedHit
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12

The daily behaviours

The two or three things that, done most days, make the goal arrive by itself.

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10W11W12Done0/120/120/12

Day 90

Written on the last day, not from memory a fortnight later.

Everything you type is saved in this browser only. Fill in a row or two and the download and import options will have something to work with.

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✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
Pick one thing

One. The whole value of ninety days is that it is too short to hedge, and a second goal is a hedge.

2
Write the finish line

A sentence somebody else could check on day 90 without asking you how it went.

3
Score every week

One line, every week, including the weeks you did nothing. Four bad weeks in a row is information; four blank rows is just an abandoned document.

The structure is deliberately narrow: one goal, twelve weeks, and a weekly line you fill in whether or not the week went well. The weeks that went badly are the useful data — a plan that only records the good ones cannot tell you anything.

Set the goal, set the start date, then use the week rows as the running record. It saves as you type.

✦ The limit

A plan is not a record.

This page holds what you intend. It cannot tell you what you did, because nothing on it knows whether the checkpoint on the fourteenth happened, whether the habit ran for nine days or two, or which goal has quietly not moved since March. That is the honest limit of every template, printed or otherwise, and if it has never bothered you then this one is yours for free for good.

EvyOS is the same structure with the work recorded against it. Send this sheet across and the goals, checkpoints and habits arrive as real records with their dates — then progress comes from what you tick off rather than from you remembering to come back and update a slider.

Questions

90-day goal tracker, answered.

Because feedback arrives inside it. A quarter is long enough for a real outcome and short enough that week three still feels connected to the finish, which is the specific thing annual goals lose. It is the same reason the 12 Week Year works: you get four deadlines a year instead of one.
Fill the row in anyway and mark it missed. The missed weeks are the most useful part of the record — three in a row almost always means the goal was too big or the weekly thing was too vague, and both are fixable in week four rather than week eleven.
You can, but this template is built for one on purpose. If you want several running at once, the goal tracker handles four or five side by side.
Yes. Download PDF gives you the whole thing laid out for print, twelve week rows and the habit grid included, so you can fill it in by hand and keep it somewhere you will see it.
The goal becomes a goal with a target date ninety days out, each of the twelve weekly focuses becomes a dated task, each daily behaviour becomes a habit with a streak, and the whole sheet is saved as a note. The weekly review then happens against work that is already recorded rather than against your memory of it.

Keep the plan.
And the record of doing it.

Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.

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