You’re entitled to express yourself however you wish, but I’m surprised that a company like Equilibrium Enterprises has done work with personal development coaches and yet interacts with their customers in such a rude and flippant manner!

Finally, it’s also rather disturbing that you mention the “one nugget of information that came from the review is that we clearly need to approach this from a standpoint of a user.” Wow. I did not know your company up until yesterday was not approaching the development of your products with the user/customer in mind!

Thank you for sharing the information and participating in a dialog because it’s important to hear about your company’s business practices as well.

It is called the habit factor because once you consciously craft/track habits – they become habits (in all likelihood for life). there is no point tracking anything indefinetly. Then you (the user) moves on and craft new habits. Also, habits support the achievement of goals. A goal can have a long-term goal end-date while a habit may have multiple tracking periods WITHIN the GOAL period where a user might even increase the frequency target or each habit.

to revisit your rebuttal -”several of them have made the same point of the post”? none of them asked for a tracking period without an end date??? also, you’re comment was NOT about a habit but a GOAL. here’s your quote once again, “For instance, reaching my GOAL weight is a long term process and I don’t know when my completion date will be!” This is comical and i don’t mean to pile on – but again, that is fundamental goal setting – having an end date.

Finally, please know we’ve had multiple business and personal development coaches contact us and comment very favorably about the app and how they now use it with their clients. Be sure to see the review by “8280″ titled “ABA”. He/she cited this as applied behavioral analysis “whether we knew it or not – based upon experimentally derived principles to affect behavior change”.

So, what the difference? Same app. Very different reviews? Those who find tremendous value in the habit factor and those who might not? The difference is (i’m guessing) they understand how to use it. And, in this case, they are actually PROFESSIONAL coaches and understand personal development. How to modify behavior through target tracking periods.

we will be sure to let you know when the next release is out. however, i can assure you it will not allow for a tracking period with no end date.

The one nugget of information that has come from your review is that we clearly need to approach this from a standpoint of a user not having any idea how the app works. This is valuable feedback so i think we’ll start on an ebook for best practices to help clarify such confusion.

thanks

As far as “Goals 101,” forming habits (which your app is NAMED after!) is not about setting an end date for when you stop having a productive or life changing habit, it’s about making it a HABIT, which in itself means indefinite. While it may be nice for some users who are interested in establishing a habit for a little while, most of the habits I’m interested in pursuing in my life are continuous, with no end to them. And this app not only has no option for setting an open end date, it doesn’t even allow you to use the features unless you set one!

the biggest problem with the review is the reviewer, who has no concept or clue about setting goals apparently. GOALS 101; YOU SET AN END DATE. Here’s the quote in case you didn’t see it, “For instance, reaching my goal weight is a long term process and I don’t know when my completion date will be!” OK. Here’s a thought, set a goal weight and a completion date that is between where you are now and your ideal. That way you can track towards your ideal.

This entire review is comical and if this were my website – i’d make sure it was by a nameless author as well. Only i wouldn’t actually post it. The Habit Factor is Equilibrium’s best selling and most popular app. Other great apps include Virtues, Noble Paths, BucketList Pro. As the publisher it’d be helpful if you understood the app and used it correctly.

As for the occasional memory issues, the latest version 1.2 has addressed those.