Goals & Priorities

Goals are the top-level categories that organize everything in Taskott. Every task belongs to a goal, and goals have priority levels, colors, and their own XP progression.

What is a goal?

A goal represents an area of your life or work that you want to invest time in. Goals are broad and long-running — they're not specific projects, but the categories that projects fall under.

Good goals

Career — Everything related to your primary job
Side Project — Building that app/business/creative work
Health — Exercise, nutrition, sleep habits
Learning — Books, courses, skill development
Home — Household tasks, errands, admin

Too specific (use tasks instead)

"Launch website redesign" — This is a task or group, not a goal
"Read Thinking Fast and Slow" — This is a task under a Learning goal
"Fix the kitchen sink" — This is a task under a Home goal

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Aim for 3-5 goals. Fewer than 3 probably means you're lumping too much together. More than 5 creates decision fatigue when assigning tasks and reviewing stats.

Priority levels

Each goal has a priority level that signals its relative importance:

Level	Meaning	Usage
P1	Critical	Your most important goal. Tasks here should be prioritized in sprint planning.
P2	Important	Meaningful goals that deserve regular investment but aren't your primary focus.
P3	Nice-to-have	Goals you care about but can deprioritize when P1/P2 work is heavy.

Priority levels help during sprint planning. When you have limited capacity, focus on P1 tasks first, then P2, then P3. The Stats screen shows your time investment per priority level so you can check whether you're walking the talk.

Colors

Each goal has an assigned color that appears throughout the app:

Task list items show a colored dot for their goal
Stats charts use goal colors for visual distinction
The execution mode timer uses the active task's goal color

Pick colors that are visually distinct from each other. Taskott offers a palette of accent colors that work well together.

Goal XP & Levels

Each goal has its own XP pool and level. When you complete a task, the XP earned is attributed to that task's goal. This creates a per-goal progression system:

XP earned = Task value + efficiency bonus (up to 50%)
Efficiency bonus = Earned by completing tasks faster than your effort estimate
Levels = Exponential XP thresholds — each level requires more XP than the last

Goal levels give you a visual indicator of how much you've invested in each area over time. A high-level Career goal and a low-level Health goal might be a signal to rebalance.

Archiving goals

If a goal is no longer relevant (you switched jobs, finished a project, changed priorities), you can archive it. Archived goals:

Are hidden from the active goals list
Retain their XP, levels, and historical data
Can be unarchived at any time
Don't appear in task creation dropdowns

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Tasks assigned to an archived goal remain visible in your backlog. You can reassign them to a different goal or leave them as-is.

Time tracking per goal

Taskott tracks time spent on each goal from three sources:

Task execution time — Logged during execution mode
Calendar events — From categorized Google Calendar syncs
Distraction time — Attributed to the goal you were working on when interrupted

This gives you a holistic picture of where your time goes — not just what you explicitly tracked, but all the meetings, interruptions, and adjacent work.