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Goals

Your companion can hold goals — things it tracks for you over time, with due dates and follow-up dates — and check in on them on its own initiative. Goals live in the Purpose space, the part of your companion that’s about what you’re working toward together.

What it is

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A goal is a titled thing your companion keeps. It carries a status (active, paused, or completed), an order among your active goals, and two optional dates: a due date (when it’s meant to be done) and a follow-up date (when your companion will proactively check in on it). Goals are stored as memories, so they’re durable and travel with your companion across conversations and channels.

The title is the goal’s identity — saving a goal with a title that already exists updates that goal rather than creating a duplicate.

Why it matters to you

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Most reminders are passive: they sit in a list until you go look. A companion with goals is different — it knows what you’re working toward and brings it up itself, on the follow-up date you set or when the moment fits. That turns “I should really get back to that” into a relationship where someone is, gently, in it with you. This is agency, not a scheduler firing at a fixed time: your companion chooses how and when to raise a goal.

How you use it

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Open the Purpose space in chat, or just talk to your companion about what you want to track — it can create and manage goals in conversation.

  • Create or update a goal — give it a title; optionally set a due date and a follow-up date.
  • Set the status — mark a goal active, paused, or completed as things move.
  • Set or change dates — adjust the due date or the follow-up date as plans shift.
  • Reorder — change the order of your active goals so the ones that matter sit on top.
  • List and filter — browse goals, optionally filtered by status.

When a follow-up date arrives, your companion can raise the goal with you on its own.

Limits & edge cases

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  • Title is the unique key. Saving with an existing title updates that goal — pick distinct titles for distinct goals.
  • Dates use YYYY-MM-DD. A goal’s due and follow-up dates are plain calendar dates; both are optional.
  • Status is one of three. A goal is active, paused, or completed — nothing else.
  • Reordering applies to active goals. Paused and completed goals aren’t part of the active ordering.

Where next

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