Goals
Goals is where you say where you are going and what you are trying now. A direction is a long line in your life with no number and no end. A goal is a concrete bet with a deadline — and, written before you start, the condition under which you will stop.
What you see
Three tabs:
- Month — the goals you took into this month, as a flat list. Each card shows its direction, its exit (I quit if …) and how far it got. A date turns amber when the deadline is within a week. Old short goals with no deadline sit apart.
- Directions — the whole tree: direction → goal → monthly goal, each with what carries it. A goal opens in place. Goals you put aside wait, greyed, under their direction.
- Closed — goals you reached or let go, with the reason.
The header counts directions, goals, overdue ones and goals nothing carries. New goal opens the form; Open in Atlas shows them on a board.
How to use it
- New goal → choose Direction or Goal. A goal needs a deadline (a month out by default) and I quit if …; how I'll know, why and if something gets in the way can stay empty.
- Attach what carries it: projects, habits, or a number of your own (2 of 5 talks).
- Not for this month? Put aside — it waits under its direction; To this month brings it back.
- When the deadline passes, a quiet marker appears on the row with the choice right under it — What about it?: Reached, Partly, Extend, Rewrite, Let go, or Discuss with OnePuls.
- Empty page? I know what I want starts from an example; I don't know where to go opens a talk with OnePuls — three questions, one at a time, ending in a plan card.
How it worksfor the curious
The deadline decides the floor. A goal due within about 45 days counts as a monthly goal, a longer one as a goal; under a long goal only short ones can sit. A direction never has a deadline or a progress bar.
One at a time. Adding a second short goal under the same parent asks one question: after the running one, instead of it, or urgent beside it. If urgent, you choose what the running goal gives up — a later deadline, or a smaller scope.
Progress is read in this order: your own number, then the tasks of the goal's projects, then the habits carrying it (days kept, over the last 30 days for a long goal). A project nobody touched for three weeks is flagged on the goal it carries.
Letting go is not failing. Let go moves the goal to Closed with your reason; its habits stay unless you tick them, and its tasks leave Focus only if you tick that. Before the deadline, letting go or deleting a goal that has an exit opens a talk with OnePuls, where you argue with your own I quit if — except for a goal set in the last 24 hours. Delete is for a goal set by mistake.
Elsewhere. A goal can have a plan — a page in Notes linked to it. Projects show the goal they serve, and Focus says what a task's project is for. OnePuls brings goals into a conversation only when the talk is about goals or plans, never into unrelated answers.
- goals — links to projects and habits too