goal-tracking

Cascading long-term goals into daily tasks involves structuring a hierarchy from a three-year vision down through yearly, monthly, and weekly goals, then linking daily tasks to specific goals via metadata references. This creates alignment between strategic objectives and day-to-day work, ensuring each task contributes to measurable progress across time horizons.

Yes, goal tracking supports multiple progress measurement methods including checklists, metrics, and time-based measures. The system computes completion percentages for each goal level, allowing you to monitor advancement through different calculation approaches depending on how you structure your goals.

Weekly reviews and monthly evaluations surface stalled goals by analyzing progress across your goal hierarchy. The system highlights goals with no recent task updates or incomplete milestones, surfacing momentum gaps so you can adjust priorities or break down blocked objectives into actionable next steps.

Connect daily tasks to goals by adding metadata references in task notes, such as [[1. Yearly Goals#Goal Name]]. This 'Supports' relationship links each task to its parent goal, enabling the system to aggregate task progress into goal completion percentages and maintain visibility of work alignment.

Goal tracking applies to both personal and professional goal systems using the same hierarchical structure: Three Year Goals, Yearly Goals, Monthly Goals, Weekly Review, and Daily Notes. The framework and progress calculation methods function identically across both domains.

Use weekly reviews to assess short-term progress, identify blocked tasks, and plan the coming week's work against current goals. Use monthly evaluations to analyze broader trends, adjust goal definitions, and cascade adjustments down from yearly to monthly to weekly levels based on realized progress.