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I'm curious whether you're planning to have Goalbot automatically learn from the collective successes of your users (example "people who skipped this step were

I'm curious whether you're planning to have Goalbot automatically learn from the collective successes of your users (example "people who skipped this step were twice as likely to fail at goal X"). Surely some goals are going to be personal, but I could imagine a lot of interesting insights arising from studying the paths of those who were successful.

mmorris 17y ago
Yes, the plan and track sections of Goalbot are based around 'learning' which subgoals are most effective in reaching the parent goal. This was actually part of the original inspiration behind the idea. Also, I agree that there will be some personal goals added. At the moment we're getting around the public/personal issue by making goals public once a certain threshold of people have typed it in manually. This way no private goals will ever be made public (though as the site develops I'll likely have to make it a bit smarter).