Visualizing Goals
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Rick DiChristofaro
I'd like a way to visualize goals other than just the progress circle. A summary of this idea can be found at the bottom of the post.
If you have ever built a puzzle, you can see your progress as the puzzle gets completed. I’d like for Clickup to create a visual of a goal with tasks/subtasks being the pieces that fill up the visual.
Goal Visualization Shape
The visual could be the shape of a jigsaw puzzle, but having a square shape that gets filled by smaller squares could work just as well. The size of the pieces could be dictated (calculated) by the time estimations of the individual tasks or by a numeric custom field. The custom field would be like the Scrum points idea for those familiar with the Agile approach.
Squares are probably better for goal visualization. It’s easier to write/manage the code necessary for creating square shapes and you get a better visualization of progress with squares.
Benefits
This is an engaging way to monitor a goal’s progress and get a visual of how much of the goal is remaining. Longer or more complex tasks have bigger blocks that fill up the square goal container.
Depending on how this is implemented you can have goals within larger goals. The largest goal (square) could be a company initiative. The smaller goals would be the targets to achieve that initiative. The smallest squares are the lists/tasks/subtasks. This makes goal setting and work more engaging.
Summary
Clickup creates a square as a visual container for a goal. To complete the goal you fill the big square with little squares. The little squares are the lists/tasks/subtasks you need to complete.
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Ivan Villa
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Hey everyone!
We're taking a step back at the moment. There are some internal decisions we need to align on regarding the goals architecture. As soon as those are cleared up, we can start making progress on the new version of goals. For now, we want to be transparent and move this back to open until we're ready to bring it back into focus.
Thank you for your patience and understanding, and we appreciate your support as we work to deliver the best possible experience for our users.
Ivan Villa
Yes! we will be holding customer calls for goals just like we did for tasks. As we get a few more things in line I will make sure to post up a link to chat :)
Shawna Leigh
Ivan Villa: Thank you for the update! You guys are amazing!
Valeria
For me, just manually putting an inspirational visual to a goal would be enough. It motivates to see a picture right by your goal.
So instead of a progress circle I'd love to upload a picture to a goal or connect it via Unsplash.
Shawna Leigh
Love this!
Michael
Here is another way to view goals that is very effective in regards to the visual impact. The beauty of this is that you can easily see how your goals make up the percentage of the whole. In this app, you can grab the corner of the sub-goal and change the percentage it takes of the goal above it, so you can accurately represent the amount of focus the sub-goals are needing.
The strength that CU has over this app is that with CU, I can choose my method of measurement, whereas in this app, it is a simple percentage of completion being the only measurement. Makes it tough for financial goals!
If CU could incorporate graphs and bars into the goals, and allow sub-goals several levels deep, it would be an outstanding step forward here! Zeb
Zeb
Michael: Interesting, thanks for sharing! We'll review with goals views
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Tom Hemerka
On top of additional visualization, it would be great if goals had the capability to assign % weights to different goal components to reflect more of the real world impact something will have instead of an evenly weighted % distribution.
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Rick DiChristofaro
Tom Hemerka: Yea I agree. I'm thinking there might need to be a special custom goal field where you can assign a numerical value. I've seen a feature request regarding this before.
With this the goal section can pull in the numerical values and adjust the size of the individual boxes based on that. In other words, it would have total points assigned to the goal and the points assigned to individual tasks. From there it can size the smaller boxes making up the goal.
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Rick DiChristofaro
Hey Zeb, I think this would be more fundamental to the structure of Goals v2. Plus, I see the calculations needed to build the visual as the ones needed for the goal analytics we're been talking about. It would be nice eye candy but could also serve a purpose under the hood.
Zeb
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Drag Ivko
Zeb:
This sounds to me like a nice to have, so I'd put it at the end of backlog.
This can be dealt with once the goals become a really mature product and you want to have some eye candy to attract more users.