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Today's Actions

Execute the work that matters today. This page shows items scheduled for your current local day and any prepared help Goaliath generated to make starting easier.

What you will do here

  • Review today's scheduled items in one place.
  • See three daily goal rings that show time, progress, and execution health.
  • See goal balance under the rings so you know whether you are ahead, behind, or on track this week.
  • See a smaller version of those rings on today's goal-linked task cards.
  • See goal-related items and custom events for today only.
  • Get branch-first task display: added to-dos show instead of their parent action step, and several sibling to-dos can appear together.
  • Open the Journal context dropdown to switch between This week and Last week summary.
  • Open prepared help directly under a task when Goaliath has prepared something useful for it.
  • Use or dismiss prepared help inline without leaving the task list.
  • Completing a full todo, action step, or goal step advances the next item at that level when one is available.
  • Today's Actions is execution-first: ordered work plus prepared help.

Before you start

  • Set your time zone and working hours in Profile Settings.
  • Make sure your goals and steps are created in Goal Planner.

Step-by-step

  1. Schedule tasks in My Tasks: Add and schedule your goal steps, action steps, to-dos, or custom tasks.
  2. Open Today's Actions: The page automatically shows only today's local-date items, including custom events.
  3. Review prepared help: If Goaliath prepared a checklist, comparison, or brief for a task, open it directly under that task and use what helps.
  4. Check the rings first: Goal Time shows minutes done against today's plan, Meaningful Progress tracks the planned slice of work moved forward using today's task mix, and Execution Health shows how well the day stayed alive through completion, misses, tracked retries, reschedules, shrink actions, recommitments, redesign signals, and useful adjustment.
  5. Check goal balance too: Under the rings you can now see today's planned versus completed minutes, this week's planned versus actual time, and whether you are ahead, behind, or on track overall for the week.
  6. Open ring details when needed: Click the main three-ring cluster to open a modal with the full explanation and current values for Goal Time, Meaningful Progress, and Execution Health.
  7. Use the mini goal ring on task cards: Goal-linked tasks also show a smaller ring icon beside the goal label so you can see that goal's daily state without leaving the list. Click that mini ring to open goal-specific ring details for today.
  8. Use Recovery actions when needed: Shrink, Recommit, and Redesign let you intentionally keep a goal alive even when the original plan no longer fits the day. Shrink now inserts a smaller todo before the current todo, moves that smaller todo into today, and keeps the original todo next in the goal flow.
  9. Respond to step prompts: When Goaliath suggests adding a step to Today's Actions, the modal shows the full step in a scroll-safe mobile sheet before you confirm or dismiss it.
  10. Execute: Follow the timeline and complete the visible child tasks first.
  11. Review: End the day with a brief reflection so the system learns what worked, what needs adjustment, and a one-line proof of progress (note or link).

Why this works

  • PCT (control loop): Daily actions reduce the gap between your goal and current state with fast feedback.
  • Goal-Setting Theory: The plan creates opportunity, and small wins strengthen capability and motivation.
  • Self-determination theory: You choose the actions, which supports autonomy and competence.

Tips

  • Schedule tasks with clear times so they appear in Today's Actions.
  • If a task spans multiple days, logging the planned minutes for today still moves the rings even before the whole task is complete.
  • A planned zero day does not create a negative balance by itself. If you still work on the goal, that time moves your weekly balance positive.
  • Planned time only starts counting once that goal's local start time has actually begun. If the work window has not started yet, you are not behind on it yet.
  • If you create or engage a goal after that day's work window has already passed, that first day does not create balance debt.
  • Front-load a quick win to build momentum.
  • If a to-do is present, focus on that item instead of parent steps; use View path on the card to see the goal and action chain.
  • Journal through the week so review and recovery stay grounded in what actually happened.

If something feels off

  • Actions feel too long? Reduce the list or shorten time blocks.
  • Timer not updating? Refresh the page to reset the countdown.

Related help

Screenshots

Today's actions desktop screen
Daily action planning view with prioritized tasks and flow.