What the Goals and Tasks tabs are telling you

The Overview gives you the headline. The Goals and Tasks tabs tell you why the headline looks the way it does.

Goals

The tab opens with counts of Active, Completed, Overdue and Paused goals, then breaks them down in several charts:

• Goal Status Distribution — the shape of your goal list. A large paused slice is worth a moment of honesty: paused goals are often finished decisions nobody recorded.
• Goal Progress Distribution and Active Goal Progress Distribution — where your goals sit on their way to done. A cluster stuck near the start is the classic sign of too many goals opened at once.
• Goals by Time Frame — whether you are mostly working on near things or far things.
• Goals by Type — the balance across the kinds of goal you keep.

Tasks

Here you get My Tasks, Overdue, On-Time and Completed Late, plus a Weekly Completion Trend (4 weeks) chart. The four-week trend is the single most useful thing on the page, because it shows rhythm. Most people have a natural cadence and a predictable bad week.

Tasks are also grouped as On Time and Late, and separately as Within Budget and Over Budget. Those are two different failures. Late means the date was wrong. Over budget means the estimate was wrong. A task can easily be delivered on time and still take three times the effort you expected.

There is also a Longest Tasks grouping. Long-running items are usually not one task at all, and splitting them is often the whole fix.