Goals | Visual Space

This walkthrough turns a busy Goals workspace into an understandable plan. You will shape the active workflow, move later work into the backlog, make responsibility visible, and then use filters and search without disturbing the order you established. The guide is primarily for space owners and goal managers. Wherever a reporter, direct assignee, or member of an assigned role can perform an action on an individual goal, that step is marked **Goal editors**. For the concepts behind the workflow,

Finishing a goal has two stages. First, a goal editor moves the goal into a column whose category is `Done`. Later, a space owner or goal manager can clear that whole column from the active board into Done Goals history. This walkthrough takes you through both stages and helps you check the result before the completed work becomes a lasting read-only record.

Use this walkthrough when an idea is ready to become visible work. You will place it in the right space area, publish it to a workflow column or the backlog, develop its article, add responsibility and a color tag where useful, then confirm that other members can recognize it on the board. Goal creation is immediate: there is no draft stage in the current board and backlog flow. A clear title is enough to create the goal, but the linked article is where you explain the result, context, and invit

Goals helps a community turn shared ideas into visible, organized work. Use this guide to understand the planning model, choose the right surface, or follow a complete workflow from creation through completion.

Goals gives a community a shared place to turn ideas into visible work. It is a lightweight planning layer for a space: structured enough to show what matters and who is helping, but deliberately less formal than a company project tracker. Each goal combines two useful shapes. On the board it is a compact card that can move through the community's workflow. Open it, and it becomes a full article with the context, discussion, and supporting content needed to help someone understand the work and c

Completed Goals keeps finished work available as a record of progress after it no longer needs space on the active board. It is the second stage of completion: first a goal reaches a `Done` category, then a manager may clear that column into history without deleting the goal or its article.

The Goals board keeps a community's active work visible without turning participation into a heavy project-management process. It gives members one place to see what is waiting, what is underway, and what has been finished, while leaving future work in the [backlog](backlog.md).