Goals give communities a shared place to turn ideas into visible work. Plans stay close to the conversations, documents, and people already gathered in a space.
Plan Work Together
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Goals workspace - Users can plan at the space, subspace, or activity level, so each board stays focused on the work that belongs there.
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Board and backlog - Active goals live in clear workflow columns, while future or unready work can wait in a dedicated backlog.
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Create where it belongs - Space owners and goal managers with Coordinator access can add a goal to a column or backlog.
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Paste several goals - Board and backlog composers turn each non-empty pasted line into a published goal, ready for more context.
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Rich goal details - Every goal opens as a full article for context, discussion, and supporting content beyond the compact card title.
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Side-by-side details - Opening a goal keeps the board, filters, search, and scroll position in place beside its article.
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Direct navigation - Users can open a goal from a shared link, continue to its full article, and return to the board that owns it.
Shape The Workflow
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Custom columns - Space owners and goal managers can create and name columns around the way their community works.
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Familiar categories - Every column belongs to To Do, In Progress, or Done, even when the community gives it a custom name.
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Starting column - Managers can choose where goals land when someone creates one from the main New action.
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Flexible movement - Goal editors can move work between columns or the backlog by dragging on desktop or choosing a status from a menu.
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Deliberate ordering - Managers can arrange columns and place goals at specific positions, with accepted order preserved after refresh.
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Safe column removal - Removing a column moves its goals to a neighboring column instead of losing the work.
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Reorder filtered work - Assignee and color filters keep dragging and inline placement available, so users can organize the work they are focusing on.
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Search ordering boundary - Text search pauses reordering and inline placement until users return to the board's saved order.
Organize The Work
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People and role assignees - Goals can belong to one participating person, a space role, or remain unassigned.
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Visible responsibility - Cards, backlog rows, and goal details show who is responsible without opening another screen.
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Color tags - Reporters and goal managers can mark goals with priority colors, while managers can create named colors that fit their space.
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Confirm tag removal - Deleting a custom color tag asks for confirmation and removes the tag from affected goals without deleting their work.
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Combined filters - Assignee and color filters work together across both the board and backlog, including unassigned and untagged goals.
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Goal search - Users can narrow the current goals area by reference, title, keywords, or a content excerpt.
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Activity context - Colored activity labels show where goals belong and open the matching activity board.
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Move between activities - Reporters and goal managers can move a goal to another accessible, published activity in the same space.
Keep A Backlog
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Plan without clutter - Moving a goal to the backlog keeps its article, status, reference, assignee, and color tag intact.
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Quick backlog editing - Permitted users can rename goals and update their prepared status, assignee, or color without opening the full article.
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Keep your place - Editing a backlog title on desktop keeps the surrounding list at its current scroll position.
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Ordered backlog - Managers can arrange loaded backlog goals, and the order stays consistent as more results appear.
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Return to active work - A backlog goal can move directly into a chosen column or a precise visible position on the board.
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Create in place - Managers can add new goals between existing backlog rows instead of creating first and rearranging later.
Review Completed Goals
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Clear finished work - Space owners and goal managers can clear a Done column without deleting its goals or their articles.
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Done Goals history - Signed-in members can review cleared work in a read-only list ordered from newest to oldest.
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Useful time groups - Completed goals can be grouped by day, month, or year, with totals and leading contributors for each period.
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Find completed work - Search Done Goals by title, reference, or keywords and combine the results with assignee and color filters.
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Open full context - A cleared goal still opens beside the history, so members can revisit its article without leaving the list.
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Reopen finished work - Goal editors can return a cleared goal to the board by choosing a status outside Done in its article.
Reference And Share Goals
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Readable references - Each goal receives a number within its space and a compact label such as VS-42 across cards, backlog rows, and article details.
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Space goal keys - Space managers can review, change, or remove the suggested uppercase key without disabling goals.
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Chat goal picker - Typing a shortcut such as /VS- or the /goal command helps users find accessible goals and insert the intended one.
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Duplicate-key guidance - When joined spaces share a key, the picker asks users to choose the space before choosing a goal.
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Durable shared references - Goal links keep pointing to the same goal after its space key changes or the goal moves.
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Private fallback - Deleted or inaccessible references become a non-clickable Goal unavailable label without exposing their former details.
Participation And Access
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Clear management controls - Space owners and goal managers control columns, creation, assignments, space-wide tags, and other board settings.
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Reporter access - Goal reporters can continue editing the goals they introduced without gaining control over the whole board.
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Assignee access - Assigned people and current members of an assigned role can edit and move that goal, but cannot change wider board settings.
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Private-area protection - Boards, backlogs, completed history, details, search, and reference lookup follow the current area's membership rules.
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Community engagement - Signed-in users can save goals to View Later. Where permitted, they can also react, award, comment, or feature goals in Expo.
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Archived activities - Members can still review existing goals in an archived activity, but cannot create new ones there.
Comfortable On Every Screen
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Wide board navigation - Desktop headers and cards move together, with a compact preview showing which part of a wide workflow is visible.
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Mobile planning - Narrow screens stack columns and backlog into one workspace, with visible card actions and long-press dragging for goals users can edit.
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Large-board performance - Long columns and backlogs concentrate rendering around visible goals while still showing accurate overall totals.
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Immediate board updates - Renames, new backlog goals, deletions, and other accepted edits appear across open boards and backlogs without a manual refresh.
Current Limits
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Board search coverage - Text search shows up to 50 matching goals and shows backlog matches only when those rows are already loaded.
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Completed history refresh - Reopen Done Goals to see changes made elsewhere while the history was open.