Goals

Goals is where you write down what you are working toward and keep it next to the people it depends on. Groupthink already remembers your people and what matters to them. A goal adds the other half: what you are trying to do, and who it runs through.

Where to Find It

Open Goals in the left sidebar. The page lists everything you are working toward, newest first. If you have not added one yet, it starts empty with a prompt to add your first.

Add a Goal

1. Click Add goal (top right of the Goals page).
2. Fill in:
   • Goal - what you are trying to do, in a sentence. For example, "Become the person my top clients call first."
   • Category - Career, Relationship, or Personal. Optional.
   • What does done look like? - how you will know you got there. Optional.
   • Target date - when you want to check in on it. Optional, and display only (see below).
   • Repeat - whether this is a one-time goal or something that comes back around. Defaults to One-time (no repeat). See Goals That Repeat.
3. Click Add goal to save. It appears at the top of your list.

You can edit or delete any goal from its row, and mark it complete when you get there.

Tie a Goal to a Person

Most of what you are working toward runs through someone. You can set a goal from a person's relationship page, and it lives on that page: the next time you open them, you see your history with them and the goal you are working on together, in one place.

A goal tied to a person shows up in that person's Goals section. A goal you add from the main Goals page stands on its own unless you tie it to someone.

Goals That Repeat

Not everything you are working toward is a one-time thing you finish. Some of it is a standing commitment - "check in with my mentor every quarter," "call my parents every week," "remember our anniversary." Those are goals you want to keep, not goals you want to close.

Set Repeat on the goal to make it recur. Your options:

• One-time (no repeat) - the default. The goal behaves as it always has: you mark it complete and it is done.
• Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Every 6 months, Yearly - the goal comes back around on that rhythm.
• Custom (every N days) - pick your own interval. An Every field appears; enter the number of days, for example 90 to repeat every 90 days.

What happens when you complete a repeating goal

It does not disappear. Marking a repeating goal complete rolls it forward to its next occurrence and it stays on your list, ready for next time.

The next date is measured from when you actually did it, not from a fixed calendar slot. If your quarterly check-in slips by three weeks, the next one is three months from the day you really had it - so the rhythm follows your life instead of drifting out of reach.

A goal with no repeat is unaffected. Complete it and it is complete, exactly as before.

Yearly goals with a fixed date

Some things happen on the same date every year regardless of when you last did them. Choose Yearly and an optional Anchor date field appears - the fixed date this recurs on each year, like an anniversary or a birthday.

With an anchor date set, the next occurrence is always the next time that date comes around, rather than a year from your last completion.

How repeating goals appear in the list

A repeating goal shows its repeat rhythm and its next date - for example, "Next Sep 1, 2026" - in place of the static Target line a one-time goal shows.

What Goals Does Not Do

Goals is a place to state intent, not a task manager.

• It does not send you notifications or reminders about a goal.
• It does not grade or score your progress.
• The target date is a note to yourself, not a deadline that triggers anything.

Repeating goals are the one place a goal carries a real date that Groupthink acts on: a repeating goal's next date is used to keep the goal on your list and roll it forward. Even then, nothing is sent to you and nothing is scored - the goal simply stays current instead of going stale.

The value is that what you are working toward is written down where your relationships already live, so it is context you see in the moment rather than a note you lose track of.

Goal Repeat Is Not Contact Frequency

These are two different clocks and it is worth keeping them straight:

• A goal's repeat is about you and something you intend to keep doing. It lives on the goal.
• A relationship's Frequency is a target for how often you want to be in touch with a particular person, and it drives the Going Cold view. See Relationships.

You can have both on the same person, and they do not have to match. A goal of "prep properly before every board meeting" repeats quarterly whether or not you are also trying to talk to that person monthly.

Getting Help

Questions about Goals? Email support@groupthink.com.