You could have a perfectly maintained Todoist with 200 tasks checked off this month and still not know whether any of it moved the needle on the thing that actually mattered. Goals fill that gap – by giving the tasks somewhere to point.

Set a target, link your tasks to it, and your completion percentage updates automatically as you check things off. Create personal goals for your individual milestones, or team goals for the shared objectives you’re hitting with your squad – complete with a designated lead for each.

Here’s Dermot with a quick demo:

How to get started

1. Click Goals in the sidebar. (Make sure experimental features are turned on in settings.)
2. Choose Personal for a personal goal, or select your team’s tab for a shared goal.
3. Click + Add goal, give it a name, a description, and a deadline. For team goals, assign the person responsible – so it’s clear who owns it.
4. Open any task and, in the right-hand sidebar, click + beside Goal to link it. Or select multiple tasks and use Goal in the multi-select toolbar to link them all at once.
5. To link all tasks in a project or section at once, open its context menu and select Add tasks to goal.

That’s it, check off linked tasks and watch the progress climb.

Set your first goal →

A few things to know

• Goals is available now on web/desktop for paid Pro and Business Experimentalists (v10552+). Look for it in the sidebar – you’ll need experimental features turned on in your settings.
• Personal goals: Up to 3 per person – just for you
• Team goals: Up to 50 per team, each with an owner assigned

What’s next

Mobile is coming. We’re also exploring the option to automatically add tasks from a project or section to a goal as you create them, rather than linking them individually. And AI-assisted coaching – nudges, check-ins, a way to flag when a goal is at risk – is the direction we’re building toward, though we’re still figuring out what “actually useful” looks like before we ship it.

What gets us there is you using this with something real and telling us what you think.

Try it with something real

Set a goal you care about finishing – not a project, an outcome. Our goal this quarter: ship Goals. We’ve been tracking it inside the feature itself: every bug fix, every design review, every line of code shipped moves the percentage.

Yours could be “Clear the backlog before the summer slowdown hits.” Or something entirely personal, like finally finishing the kitchen renovation before the in-laws visit in June.

Does the progress feel meaningful? What’s missing? What would make you come back to this every week? Share your feedback – and if something’s not working right, report bugs in our Experimentalist support channel.