Goals

A goal is the reason a task exists. Kept keeps goals separate from the day's list on purpose: the list is what you do, the goal is why. Linking the two is a deliberate act; a capture in the Health area does not attach itself to your Health goal.

Create a goal

On iPhone, tap your avatar, then your name at the top of the menu to open Profile; your goals sit under Goals, with See all when you have more than three. On Mac, Goals is a sidebar destination, ⌘4 in the default order.

Build a goal on iPhone, or New goal → Build a goal on Mac, opens the coach: a short conversation that turns a broad wish into a proposed plan with tasks, a habit, a check-in, and reminders. You review the proposal before anything is created. The coach uses Cloud AI; with it off, the same button opens the plain editor instead.

Write a goal on Mac, or the editor the coach falls back to on iPhone, asks for a title, a life area, and a why. On Mac you can also set a north star, a target with a unit, and a target date. On iPhone, set a target later from the goal's page.

Link the work that serves it

A goal page has three parts:

• Progress is the work already linked: open tasks, active habits and their recent check-ins, and on Mac the linked events, notes, focus sessions, and training that count too.
• Suggested is nearby work that could count once you link it. On iPhone, Kept suggests from the goal's own words. On Mac, it also offers work from the same area. Nothing counts until you link it.
• Why explains the goal and never counts as progress. On Mac this context also carries what Kept remembers that bears on the goal.

Tap Link a task on iPhone to choose from your open tasks; a task already on another goal can move here. On Mac, the action bar under every goal reads Link existing, Add task, Add practice, Record progress. Link existing opens one sheet with Tasks, Practices, Events, and Notes segments, each row offering Link, Unlink, or Move here; Add task and Add practice create something new that counts from today. Adding a practice offers Suggested drafts from the goal's own words on both devices; a draft fills the editor and nothing is created until you save. With Cloud AI off, you can still name a practice yourself. The goal's … menu holds Edit goal, Refresh today's read, Talk to Goal Coach, Choose what Kept counts, and Archive goal, and archiving offers Undo.

Next

Each goal names a Next action: the earliest-due open task linked to it, then the highest priority, with undated tasks after dated ones. The same order applies on iPhone and Mac. If no task qualifies, Next offers a linked habit; on Mac it then falls to a planned training session or an upcoming event, and on iPhone it suggests the setup step that would give the goal a Next.

Progress you declare

On Mac, Record progress sets a percentage or a measured value against your target, and Choose what Kept counts decides which signals feed the goal. A number you enter is labeled Your estimate, so it is never confused with something measured. On iPhone, set the target and declared progress from the goal's page. Changing the number does not complete any work or archive the goal.

On Mac, Activity counts real completions this week or month, never a percentage and never a scheduled event, because an event is an intention, not an outcome. Consistency shows kept versus scheduled for linked habits, built from each habit's own rhythm. A weekday habit is not counted against on a Sunday.

The daily read

With Cloud AI allowed, Kept can write a short daily read of the goal from its linked work: what happened, what is next, and, on iPhone, Sources naming every item it cited. The read appears the next time you open the goal, never while you are reading the previous one; Show latest read on iPhone and Refresh today's read on Mac fetch it now. With Cloud AI off, the counts and Next still work, and the card says so in a plainer line.

Edit, archive, restore

Edit any field from the goal page. On Mac, Kept sends only the fields you changed, so editing a title never overwrites a target another device just set; if you both changed the same field, Kept says so and offers Keep my edit or Load the saved version.

Archive a goal when it is no longer active. It leaves the list and keeps its history, and it can be restored.

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