# How Open Sourcing My Personal Goals Improved My Productivity

DevFeed: [How Open Sourcing My Personal Goals Improved My Productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-open-sourcing-my-personal-goals-made-me-really-productive-28827.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://una.im/personal-goals-guide/>)

Published: 2014-11-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Una Kravets](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/una-kravets.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [repo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/repo.md>), [Template](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/template.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [guides](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guides.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/productivity.md>), [projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/projects.md>), [repo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/repo.md>), [terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terminal.md>)

## AI overview

The author describes keeping personal goals in a public GitHub repository and explains how versioning, weekly reviews, structured folders, and public accountability supported their productivity. The article also discusses terminal aliases and a starter template for organizing the system.

## Source excerpt

For the past four weeks, I've been keeping a very public and open version of my personal goals on Github. Its definitely made me a lot more productive, and you should give it a try.