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Goal Overview

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Folke 01/13/2014 14:58

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I have a somewhat vague idea that I would like to bring to your attention at this relatively early stage

I know there are many important things that remain to be done now concerning the recent V4 release (stability and feature changes etc).

The present suggestion, on the other hand, could be a very major potential new feature that will take some time to define and think about.

Doit is relatively unique in having a Goal level above Projects. At the same time, many users struggle with various difficulties that neither Doit nor typical other apps can currently solve. I believe it would be possible to solve these issues in a simple and brilliant way using the Goals feature, but I have only a sketchy idea:

http://help.doit.im/group/topic/87

wendy_only post on 01/14/2014 16:29#1

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@Folke

Hi,

Thank you for your suggestion. We will read your idea seriously and then reply to you.
Folke post on 01/15/2014 11:58#2

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@wendy_only

Thank you very much for taking the time to investigate this at some stage :-)

The Goal feature is really useful. I have managed to split my "life" into five different Goals, and I have about a half a dozen projects in each Goal. This makes it all very manageable and easy to overview. :-)

The Goal feature also holds a lot of additional potential. In this case (the topic of this thread) I discovered that the Goal would be the ideal level for solving a problem that I think we all share. We may all want to see what things are likely to be pressing for our attention during the next week or two, without being distracted or "drowned" by things that will happen only much later or that have only a low level of priority.

But having one single such list would probably not work very well. Even if we could eliminate all lower priorities and distant dates, the list would probably be too long to digest in a quick review. But by limiting the list to one Goal at a time, it would be possible, I firmly believe, to have a one-page summary - almost like a specially filtered Project view - that tells us what of importance is likely to be going on within a particular Goal across all Boxes. And if we define our Goals wisely, and not have too many or too few, then the Goal overview could really become a key tool for our frequent reviewing needs. I would use it several times a day, I am sure.

Some additional ways of making good use of the inherent strength of the Goal feature (which I have already proposed earlier in other threads) would be to have a grouping option for "by Goal" in the various existing lists, e.g. in the long Projects list, and in the Next, Waiting, Scheduled, Someday lists etc. Grouping by Project tends to get a bit too detailed and cluttered. Grouping by Goal would be just nice. But this would be a topic for another thread.

Thanks again :-)