Goals
How goals work in Make My Day, and how linking tasks to them keeps your day pointed at what matters.
Goals set the field you play on. Your tasks and appointments decide how you play.
That is the whole division of labour. A goal doesn’t tell you what to do on Tuesday — it settles what counts as a good Tuesday. In Make My Day goals are deliberately simple, so they stay useful instead of becoming another thing to manage.
What a goal is
A goal is just a short title, an optional description, and a colour. That’s on purpose. You decide what it means:
- a result you want this month or this quarter
- a long-term ambition that will take years
- a way of living — healthier, calmer, more present
There’s no fixed hierarchy and nothing to configure. Frame your goals however fits your life.
Linking tasks and events to goals
The point of a goal is to connect it to your actual day. Link any task or event to one or more goals, and its goal colour appears alongside it on the timeline. Now you can see which parts of the day serve something you care about — and which don’t.
Focusing on one goal
Select a goal to bring its work forward: the day collapses to the items linked to it, so you can see everything that moves that goal and nothing else. Clear the selection to see the full day again.
This is a gentle nudge, never a rule. Make My Day won’t scold you for a goal you haven’t touched — it simply makes it easy to check in, and to choose the next task that matters.
Seeing where your days actually went
Linking work to a goal is the input. The goal bar is where you read the output.
Each goal carries a dot. It is filled when something on the day you’re looking at is linked to that goal, and hollow when nothing is. One glance answers the question that’s easy to avoid: is today serving anything I said mattered? The dots read the whole day, not whatever a focus filter is currently showing, so they can’t flatter you by hiding rows.
Expand the legend and it goes further: beside each goal is the last day you actually worked on it.
That word is doing real work. Worked on is not the same as planned:
- a task counts once you complete it
- an appointment counts once it has ended
- an all-day event counts once its day has begun
Something you put on today and didn’t finish does not count. Neither does something sitting on next Thursday. So a goal you keep planning around and never quite reach shows its real last date, not the date you last intended to.
That is the honest version of “am I spending my time on what I said was valuable” — and it’s the one worth having. A goal whose dot is hollow three days running, or whose legend still reads a fortnight ago, is telling you something no encouragement screen could.
There are no percentages, no progress bars and no score. A dot and a date, and what you do about them is yours.
A quiet weekly habit
Once a week, glance over your goals and the work you linked to them. It takes a minute and it’s the difference between a busy week and a week that counted.
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