Getting Started with My Good Week

Welcome to the Getting Started User Guide! Here we will figure out how you can use My Good Week to track your activities and build new habits.

Why My Good Week

For most people, the calendar is the primary tool for time management. Remembering birthdays, planning parties, scheduling work meetings - all of it is in your calendar app already. If you go a little further, your calendar also has time blocks for chores, study, exercise, or even for resting.

We love our calendars as well, and we think that calendars can be used for so much more than just event planning. It is also great for managing your personal and working time. To fully use the data in your Google Calendar, we made My Good Week. It fully integrates with Google Calendar to give you a fresh look at all of your activities.

To use My Good Week, you need to do just a few simple steps:

1. Connect your Google Calendar.
2. Create activities that will use events from your Google Calendar automatically.
3. Create activities that you want to track manually.

As soon as you create your first activity, you will be able to:

• See statistics for past weeks, months, quarters, and years.
• Track your weekly goals for each activity.
• Get an email with your week’s summary at the end of each week.
• Do weekly reviews.

Set up My Good Week account

The registration process is very simple! All you need to do is go to https://app.mygoodweek.com/login and click the “Sign in” button. Then you will be redirected to the Google login page, where you can choose the account that you want to use in My Good Week.

⭐️ Be sure to choose an account that you mainly use for your calendar.

Next, you will be redirected to the page where you connect your Google Calendar to My Good Week.

Click the “Connect Google Calendar” button, and you will be redirected to the Google permissions page, where you will be asked to provide permissions to your Google Calendar. Be sure to select all permissions in the list.

That is it! My Good Week account is ready to use. Now, let’s create your first activity.

What is activity, and how it works

Activity is something you do regularly, for example, exercise, study, cleaning, meditation, work, or anything else. For each of these, you can create an activity in My Good Week. An activity in My Good Week has a name, icon, tracking type, and weekly goal.

Name and icon

The name and icon are there to give your activity a little more personality. Feel free to use any name and icon that you feel represents your activity the best.

Tracking type

Activity can be of a manual or automatic tracking type.

• Manual tracking, as the name implies, lets you enter your progress manually in My Good Week every time you complete your activity.
• Automatic tracking is working tightly with your Google Calendar, automatically tracking your progress using events in the calendar.

When creating an automatic tracking activity, you will have to set up an event filter. The event filter is meant to tell My Good Week which events in your calendar belong to your activity.

You can filter Google Calendar events by:

• calendar - each event belongs to one of the calendars, which you can see in the left panel of Google Calendar.
• event name - you can choose a word or phrase that needs to be in the event’s name.
• event description - you can choose a word or phrase that needs to be in the event’s description.
• event location - you can choose a word or phrase that needs to be in the event’s location.

Weekly goal

My Good Week has very powerful goal-tracking abilities. If you genuinely want to stick to the activity and become better at it, we recommend setting a weekly goal.

There are the following types of goals in My Good Week:

• Times per week - independent of duration, the number of times you want to do your activity.
• Hours per week - total number of hours and minutes among all your activity events during a week.
• Days per week - number of days you completed the activity at least once.

If you don’t have a specific weekly goal but just want to track your activity, it is also fine not to set any goals.

Creating the first activity

For a smooth experience, we recommend you create events in the Google Calendar first and then proceed with creating activities in My Good Week. If you already have your activity events in Google Calendar - you are good to go!

In my case, I want to create an activity Yoga as I recently tried to pick up yoga and want to track my progress. Here is my Google Calendar.

Now that you made sure you have events in the Google Calendar, click “Add activity” on the welcome screen or in the main application screen.

Choose an activity or make a custom one

First, you can choose one of the activities in the list. If the activity you are creating is not on the list, click “Create a custom activity” and choose the name, icon, and color for your activity.

I will pick “Yoga” from templates.

Choose tracking type

Now decide, if you want to track activity automatically with Google Calendar, or manually enter your progress in the My Good Week.

In my case, all events are on the calendar already, so I will pick Automatic Tracking.

Choose calendar

Now, that I have gone with the automatic tracking, I need to teach My Good Week how to find my Yoga events.

First, I will choose a calendar.

Next, let’s make a filter for calendar events. You simply choose “Event name” to search for “Yoga” word in it. When you enter the name, My Good Week will give you a hint of how many such events you recently had in your calendar.

Set the goal

Now that you are ready to create your new activity, think if you want to set a weekly goal for it. I want to do yoga 4 days per week, so I set a goal accordingly.

If you don’t have a specific weekly goal but just want to track your activity, it is also OK!

You are all set now! Click “Create”, and you will be redirected to the My Good Week dashboard.

Tracking your activity

Using dashboard

After creating your first activity, you will be redirected to the dashboard that shows the summary of each of your activities.

Each activity is represented by a widget that shows:

• Activity icon and name.
• Weekly goal completion percentage.
• This week’s progress.
• Current and the best streak.

If you click on one of your activities, you can move to the activity page.

Activity statistics

On the activity page, you can see various statistics - yearly view, retrospective data, etc. Go ahead and explore it.

Goal tracking

The “Goals” tab will be useful for activities with a weekly goal set. Look back at the last week or a week before and make sure you are achieving your goal consistently.

Manual tracking

What if you don’t track your activity in Google Calendar? For example, something small like “Drink supplements”, “Making your bed”, or “Flossing”. In such cases, you can create activities that are tracked manually, and use “My Day” page to enter your progress every day.

Here you can click on the button on the right side of each manual activity and enter your progress.

Next steps

I think you got the idea. Now it is time to create more activities, set some goals, and finally be in charge of your own time!