What are the goal types?

There are five, and the type decides what the goal knows how to track.

Standard counts anything you can put a number on. Financial tracks money and understands amounts and currency. Academic tracks study results. Health tracks a health measure. Personal covers the rest of life outside work.

Pick the type that matches what you are measuring, because a Financial goal can read your money figures in a way a Standard goal cannot. If none of them fits, Standard always works.