Goals and Progress

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Newest at top. Last updated 15 August 2026.

This update · 15 August 2026

This one is a fixing round, plus one thing every phone user should read.

If you use the app on your phone: download your plan

On a phone, the app now shows a notice with a download button. Press it. The file that downloads is your complete plan; load it on your computer and everything continues where you left off. The reason: phone browsers, especially on iPhone and iPad, delete the data that websites store on the device after a few days without a visit. That is a privacy setting in the browser that no website can switch off, so this comes from the phone browser and not from the app.

At launch, the mobile version will be switched off for a while, while we work on a way to store your plan dependably on phones. It comes back when that works. Your data on desktop is not affected.

Your plan always opens

Some older saves could land on an empty Execute screen, with the quarter, month and week gone from it. The app now repairs those saves by itself while loading them, so your plan comes up every time.

The numbers say what is really going on

Insights no longer calls your signals healthy while milestones sit past their date: it now says how many are overdue, or how many still have no rating. Every counter also names what it counts, so a bare "3 of 5" reads "3 of 5 priorities ticked".

Everything else in this update

10 August 2026

Two things changed in this one: the reviews and the look. There is also a round of fixes to how your data is saved and synced.

Every review now runs in the same order

The day, week, month, quarter and annual reviews each ran their sections in a different order, so the quarter could ask you to grade a milestone, send you off to re-read your vision, and only then come back for goal status. All five now follow one order: read back what you planned, decide on the milestones that need you, set goal status, update targets and numbers, check habit consistency, rate the period, write what you learned, look ahead. The close button is the last thing on every one of them. Nothing was reworded or taken away; the blocks were moved.

The quarter check-in asks about each milestone once

The quarter check-in used to have two separate milestone sections that each did half the job: one card that asked for a verdict, and a list that only offered to move the date. There is now a single list, and every decision happens in it: mark it achieved, mark it partial, move the date, say how confident you are. Milestones that are late but were never committed to this quarter are folded into that list, so you always see the late ones.

A cleaner, more consistent look

One type scale and one set of card shapes now run across every screen, notices and hints have one look each instead of a dozen, and the discovery and planning steps carry numbered tabs throughout. Headlines say what they are about on their own: Rank your top five values instead of Rank your five, Plan this week's priorities instead of Plan the week. Dark mode picked up another round of fixes: the purpose hint, the plan frame, the groundwork strip, the read-back folds and the milestone status and confidence pills are all readable now.

Your saved data is better protected

Dropbox sync now checks the copy in the cloud before every upload, so a newer copy made on another device is never overwritten without you knowing. If the two copies have drifted apart, the app says so and remembers it until you decide what to keep. Resetting the app no longer puts the Dropbox copy at risk, and the reset window says plainly that the cloud copy survives.

If a save file is damaged, the app now only tells you a backup was kept after it has read that backup back. Otherwise it says what happened.

Everything else in this update

Also new since the last public version · August 2026

Everything below arrived in one go for anyone coming from the last public version. The things you will notice first come with a short how-to each; the rest is a list at the end.

Looking back got easier, and the numbers got honest

A full usability audit ran across the whole app, and this update carries its first fixing round. The changes you will feel: a finished day, week, month, quarter or year now opens its reflection or check-in directly, without locking a dead plan first. Setting a plan is honestly named now: the button says "Set this week’s plan" instead of "Lock", and a small Change plan button next to "Plan set." exists on every level, so a plan is never stuck. A finished period that holds real content now counts as planned on its own, and the app keeps a small catch-up list: recent reviews you missed show a red dot on the timeline and a quiet "reviews open" line in the assistant bar, each with "Review now" or "Let it go". Older misses are simply forgiven, so the list never piles up. A closed review offers the one natural next step (plan tomorrow, next week, next month, next quarter), and every review can fold out what you wrote at the levels below it: the week shows its day notes, the month its weeks, the quarter its month check-ins, the year its quarter check-ins.

The numbers behave now too. Habit consistency can no longer read above 100 percent, days that have not happened cannot be ticked (the year tracker marks today), progress counters stop at zero, and the recap deck counts milestones the same way Insights does and only celebrates wins that actually happened. Smaller fixes: adding a small goal with Enter no longer saves it twice, the beta-sunset banner is retired, dark mode reaches the last few components it used to miss, and the Insights action row is reachable on a phone again.

Your year can start when you start

Not everyone plans January to December. Before your first annual goal, the app now asks which year you want to plan: the calendar year (the standard) or your own year, 12 months starting on the next 1st of a month. Quarters follow your choice, so a year starting in September runs its first quarter September to November, and the annual wrap-up lands at the end of August. Everything else works exactly the same: days, weeks and months stay normal calendar units.

You can change your mind any time under Settings › Cadence › Your year, including picking a different start month. Your plans and check-ins keep their content; monthly priorities move with their months. One honest note: check-ins you already closed keep their quarter label, so after a switch an old check-in can show under slightly shifted dates.

Read your reflections again: the Reflections tab in Insights

Open Insights and pick the fourth tab. It holds your quarters, months, weeks and days as one tree, each level carrying the words you closed it with, the tasks you finished and the habits you kept. Expand a quarter down to a single day, search your own words across years, or filter to one level to read only your month check-ins. A card at the top shows what you wrote a year ago today.

The Reflections tree: quarters expanding into months, weeks and days

Your own words, browsable and searchable.

Your yearly goals on every planning screen: the Goal Plan

The quarter, month, week and day screens carry a Goal Plan button next to the period switcher. It opens each annual goal in full: the Summit Goal above it, the goal with its Targets, every milestone including the ones still ahead, and what this quarter contributes. Tick a milestone or change a number right there and it counts everywhere, exactly as on the Year screen. A Compact switch shows one goal at a time.

The Goal Plan: Summit Goal band, the goal with its targets, and its milestones

Everything belonging to one goal, one click from any screen.

Milestones tell you when it is time to start

A milestone can carry an estimated preparation time. It now speaks up when the work should begin: a week, three days and a day before, and on the day itself. The reminder names the milestone, the span you set and the due date, so a big goal stops being a surprise the week before it is due.

Two prep rows in the reminder strip: prep starts in 1 week, and time to start preparing

The nudge names what you set and when it is due.

Less typing while you plan

Anything with a due date now appears by itself in one Dated this month list, so nothing is typed twice and ticking it in one place ticks it everywhere. Your week starts with suggestions drawn from your own monthly priorities, greyed out until you accept them. A month that starts on a weekday is planned in the week it begins, and locking a month lands you in that week, ready to go.

The Dated this month list, filled automatically from what carries a date

One list, filled from what you already planned.

Your month review asks about the obstacles you planned for

When you set a goal you also name what could stop you, and write a counter-move for each. Until now the app kept those and rarely brought them back. The month check-in now asks about the ones attached to goals that actually moved: did it happen? If it did, it asks whether your counter-move held, and you can add a line. Two taps, no score, and an obstacle that keeps not happening stops being asked about every month.

The month review asking whether a named obstacle happened, with Yes and No, and a follow-up about the counter-move

Your own words, checked at the cadence where you still remember the answer.

The reviews were rebuilt around four questions

Day, week, month, quarter and year now answer the same four questions in the same order: what happened, how it went, what you learned, what is next. Every section carries one line saying what it is for, and milestones appear exactly once per review, in a single block with everything you need: mark it achieved, update the number, move the date, and say whether it is on track, at risk, or off track. The quarter check-in now shows each yearly goal with where it stands and asks for your call; the annual wrap-up shows each goal against the Summit Goal it serves and lets you close it properly.

The Milestones that need you block in a review: one late, one coming up, with status and confidence controls

One milestone surface per review, controls included.

Each review now asks only about its own period: the week shows the week's checkpoints, the month its month, the quarter its quarter, late ones always. The day reflection shows none; if something is late, one quiet line opens a small overlay where you handle it in place. The quarter theme takes an answer now (It held / Partly / It drifted), remembered for the annual wrap-up.

Numbers move where you are, and finishing asks instead of assuming

Hold any plus or minus button and the step grows, so a money-sized number fills in seconds. Point a task at one of your numbers (the pays-into list now offers them directly, with where each stands) and ticking the task counts: plus one run, plus 200 saved; unticking takes it back exactly. And when a number reaches its target, the milestone asks whether to mark it achieved instead of deciding for you. Finished early? It offers a stretch target on top of what you achieved; the achievement stays in the record and the stretch is never graded.

A milestone at 20 of 20 asking: Target reached. Mark the milestone achieved?

Reaching a target is a question, not a verdict. A typo can never finish a milestone.

Everything else in this update

Earlier versions

Kept for the record. Everything below shipped before the update above.

19 July 2026

Every step now guides you with clear tabs, planning a quarter starts with a named theme, planning and reviewing sit apart, and the year closes the loop into the next one.

18 July 2026

Your plan now coaches you with your own words: see where each choice lands, plan smarter for obstacles, and design for the bad week.

17 July 2026

Know your strengths, read your Life Areas at a glance, and take your whole plan with you as one PDF.

3 July 2026

A gentler first hour, and your discoveries become keepsakes.

1 July 2026

The Habit Library now covers all ten life areas.

30 June 2026

A big polish pass after a full design and usability review, plus a step-by-step run through the whole program on desktop and phone. Lots of small things that add up to a smoother first hour.

10 June 2026

4 June 2026

3 June 2026

The first public version · 21 May 2026

The first version anyone can try. What you can do with it: