New Feature Launched: Subgoals

It’s been another week. After quite some beta testing, bug fixing, and last-minute finetuning, I am happy to annouce today that we’ve launched the new “Subgoal” feature. 

Subgoals can help you break down a larger, more difficult goal into much smaller goals that are easier to accomplish. While accomplishing your subgoals one at a time, you know you are making progress on the overall goal, and completion of the bigger goal is just a matter of completing these smaller subgoals. “Subgoal” feature in GOT is designed for exactly such purposes.

For GOT users, functionally, a “subgoal” is not much different than existing goals that you’ve setup already. You can add tasks, track progress on any subgoals just like you do on any normal goals. However, an important feature of subgoals is that any progress made on them is directly reflected in its parent goal progress.  You will see it in action whenever you complete a task under a subgoal.

To creat subgoals, go to the main “Goals” tab, and under each goal, there is now an extra button called “Add a subgoal“. The subgoal creation form is similar to normal goal form, except that you don’t need to enter description and categories fields, but instead you need to enter a percentage value for the subgoal, in a field called “Parent Goal Completion %”.

It means how much progress completing this subgoal will contribute to its parent goal completion. It’s important that you enter a percentage so that the software can track how much progress is made on a parent goal whenever a subgoal’s progress is updated.

Once you’ve created subgoals for any of your goals, they can be viewed on your Dashboard page, as shown in the example screenshot below.

You should notice that each subgoal is listed under its parent, along with their goal status, due date, progress etc. This helps you see all your goal progress at a glance.

We added another feature which allows you to control whether a goal should be visible on Dashboard page. Now you can selectively show which goals you’re most actively working on to be displayed on dashboard.

I am planning to create a tutorial video to explain more about subgoals, so here is a brief introduction and hope it helps you get a general idea of how to use subgoals. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to let me know.