Structured Goal

"Simplicity can be harder than complexity: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."

——Steve Jobs

Achieving a structure of thought that is both simple and clear is far from a straightforward task. It requires thoughtful deliberation and effort. This process of streamlined thinking helps in highlighting the essentials, making objectives clearer and more focused.

Introducing the Goal Visualization Feature

Imagine a display logic where all your goals are laid out flat, with the capability to expand or collapse layers for a detailed view. On larger screens, this structure can be visualized on the right side, offering a clear overview of the organization.

This feature is designed to help you organize and manage your goals more clearly, essentially creating a map of your objectives. It enables you to present your plans in a more structured way and track your progress step by step.

Here's a detailed guide on how to optimize your task management experience using the structural view feature, demonstrated through a study preparation case.

1. Starting with the Goal View

   Initially, you'll find tabs for planning and goals at the top of the main interface. Access the goal view by clicking or swiping to the goal option.

   When creating your goals, you can ask Elisi AI to help you form a structured plan tree.

    

2. Creating Task Structures Within the structural view, you can create a clear hierarchy for your tasks, starting with your main objective.

    

   For example, if your goal is to pass an exam, that becomes the starting point of your arrangement.

   • Adding Goals: Click the "+" button and enter your main goal: passing the exam.
   • Adding Sub-items: Below the main goal, you can add tasks and further sub-tasks, assigning dates to each node. These will then appear on your planning page.
   • Viewing Structures: You can view all underlying structures within each node and expand them for more detail.

   For instance, under the overall plan, we add four learning phases. You'll notice that within any node's detail, you can see and expand its lower structure.

    

3. Refining Sub-tasks For each sub-task, you can add more specific activities or habits to help complete these sub-nodes.

   • Creating Habits: Under the task "Review," click to add a sub-task and set the habit of "reviewing 1 hour daily."
   • Mood Tracking: Maintaining awareness of your mood helps you persist longer, allowing for emotional logging and reflection on each node.
   • Review Records: To ensure progress tracking, you can set weekly reviews for goals and adjust as needed. Spoiler alert: AI will soon assist in this reflection, and your suggestions are welcome.

4. Daily Task Viewing in the Planning View After completing your planning in the goal view, the planning page will display current tasks. You can focus on weekly tasks or return to the structure to update your plan anytime.

   If you encounter difficulties in task execution, you can further break down tasks until everything is clear and actionable, making every day feel productive.

   • Expanding/Collapsing Structures in Planning: In the planning view, you can enter the structure through details, expanding or collapsing sub-tasks to focus on specific tasks while keeping the overall goal in sight.
   • Editing and Updating Tasks: Click any sub-task at any time to update its description or completion status, adding sub-tasks as needed. Continuous breakdown until tasks are manageable within a day is a key advantage of structured planning.

5. Simplifying Your Tasks with the Structural View The structural view makes task management more intuitive and organized. You can see at a glance your goals and their components, managing plans and activities from a macro to micro level. By optimizing the structure and tackling nodes step by step, you can genuinely feel the progress towards your objectives.

Summary

Structured task management, by breaking down complex goals into smaller, more specific tasks, enhances efficiency and the quality of outcomes. Its advantages include improved clarity, enhanced manageability, increased motivation, easier prioritization, and greater flexibility. Whether in work, study, or personal life, structured task management offers significant benefits, helping individuals and teams achieve their goals more effectively.

Start building your goal structure today and advance orderly towards your ideal life!