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I love reading people’s “by the numbers” end of the year lists and seeing their goals for the new year. Here are my favorite stat tracking tools that you can use to figure out what your numbers are and find out where you stand for 2012.

1. Fitbit is a feature rich pedometer that also measures qualities of sleep. With the app and on the website, you can also track what you’ve eaten, how much water you’re consuming, and other daily activities. Read my complete review here.
2. Runkeeper is an iPhone app that uses GPS to track distance and speed while you’re out walking or doing other forms of distance activity. You can also manually enter treadmill or elliptical activities. One of my favorite aspects of Runkeeper is that it tracks personal best distances per activity over days, weeks, and months. I mainly use Runkeeper as a supplement to my Fitbit data and as a way to measure more distance traveled while out walking my dog for entry into the Fitbit website.
3. Dailymile doesn’t have any tracking features significantly different from what I get through Fitbit and Runkeeper, but I do like their visualizations and the lifetime stats. I started using it at the beginning of December and have burned 13.56 donuts walking, jogging, and ellipticalling so far. I also like the concept of getting in a “daily mile” even if I don’t do any other exercise for the day.
4. Foursquare tracks where you’ve been every time you use the phone app to “check in” while out and about. I’m a bigger fan of the personal history aspect than I am of the social networking. Read my complete review here.
5. RescueTime is a little app that runs in the background on your computer and tracks what apps and websites you spend your time using. It charts your data by your most used apps and websites and by productivity and helps you visualize how you are using your time while on the computer.
6. Mint.com tracks your money. It aggregates all of your financial data and automatically generates complete pictures of net worth, net income, and spending.
7. Goodreads tracks your reading. Tell it what books you want to read, what books you’ve already read, how many books you want to read per year, and rate the books you’ve already read for recommendations on more you’d like. Read my complete review here.
8. 750 Words is a private journaling website that I particularly like because it collects statistics on your writing style, frequency, and analyzes your words for emotion, concerns, and mindset.

What tracking tools do you use?

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