Goals
A few goals kept beside your journal, so intent and evidence live in the same place.
No card · No streaks
This year
What it is
A short list of goals, tracked lightly, sitting next to the journal rather than in a separate app. The point is proximity: your goals and the actual record of your days end up in the same place, which makes it much harder to believe a story about your year that the entries do not support.
Writing a goal down is not a trivial act. Specifying what you intend to do — and ideally when and where — substantially improves follow-through compared with holding an intention in your head.
Kansha keeps this deliberately thin. No sub-tasks, no dependencies, no burndown.
How to do it
Write a small number of goals. Small is doing real work here.
Make each one specific enough that you could tell a stranger whether you had done it.
Where it fits, add the when and where — the conditions under which you will act.
Update progress when you think of it, not on a schedule.
What you might get from it
- Written intentions are acted on more often than remembered ones
- Sitting beside the journal, goals get checked against what actually happened
- Feeds the AI analysis, so stated intent can be compared with the entries
What the research says
Moderate
Gollwitzer's work on implementation intentions found that specifying when and where you will act markedly increases follow-through, across a wide range of goals.
Where that runs out
The evidence supports if-then implementation intentions specifically, not goal lists in general — a list of aspirations without conditions is much weaker. Kansha shows progress as a percentage, which some people find motivating and others find a stick to beat themselves with.
Who this might not suit
If percentage progress tends to feed perfectionism for you, this one is worth turning off — you can hide it in Settings without losing anything else.
- Gollwitzer, P. M. (1999). American Psychologist.
“Specifying when and where you will act substantially raises the rate at which goals are completed.”
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