We hold every feature to a bar – simple and powerful – and Goals didn’t clear it on either count. So we retired Goals the feature. We’re not giving up on Goals the problem, though – we’re going back to the drawing board.
On July 13, the Goals tab was removed from the sidebar, along with any goals you’d created. If you didn’t export your data beforehand (a screenshot, or an export via the Claude or ChatGPT connector), that data can’t be recovered.
What to use instead of Goals
It helped you capture the “why” behind your work and track progress toward it. You can do both with features built into every project:
- To add context and capture the “why”: use project descriptions and section descriptions (available now for everyone).
- To track progress automatically: use Project Insights, now available on Pro as well as Business (Pro Legacy excluded).
Add a description to any project or section: the goal behind it, the context, the why. The thing you’d otherwise have to re-explain to your future self every time you open it.
Descriptions are also reachable through our API, CLI, and MCP. So if you work with Claude or ChatGPT, you can hand them the context once – and stop pasting “this project is about X” into every prompt.
Project Insights is a lighter version of the Business feature, now in your personal projects. Three widgets that tell you where things actually stand, not where you hoped they’d be: At Risk, Progress, and Completed.
We’re also updating the My Projects view: on web you’ll see the number of active tasks, completed tasks, and a progress bar per project; on mobile, a progress circle. One place to see where everything stands.
Project Health improvements – Coming soon for Business
Project Health will soon read your project and section descriptions – analyzing your tasks against what you’re actually trying to achieve, instead of what’s just on the list. It will also factor in postponed tasks – the ones you keep bumping forward – so projects quietly slipping don’t stay invisible.