Yearly goals step by step

Letos is built around what you want to achieve this year. This guide shows how to set a yearly goal, break it into steps and stick with it.

1. Set a goal

Open Tasks → Year (or the Letos card on the home screen) and add a goal:

1. Write a title.
2. Add Why I want this this year.
3. Set By when (the default is the end of the year).

You can have at most 5 active goals. No more — park one first into the Beyond this year section.

2. Break the goal into steps

A goal without steps offers Break it down. You’ll find it on the goal card, in its detail and in the new-goal dialog.

1. Pick a template: Read books, Run a half marathon, Learn a language, Save money, Side project or My own goal.
2. Answer five questions (what, why, how you’ll know it’s done, by when, how much time a week).
3. Review the goal, one milestone for each remaining quarter and the first tasks for two weeks on one screen. Every row can be edited, unticked, removed and reordered.
4. Add selected saves only the ticked rows.

With AI turned on on a Mac, the template becomes Plan with AI — see Turning on AI.

3. Track your pace

Each goal shows the share of time gone versus the share of the goal done — on track, behind or no milestones. The year card also shows a ring of how much of the year has passed.

4. Pick this week’s tasks

The This week card on the home screen lets you pick up to 3 tasks linked to your goals that matter this week.

• Click Pick and choose tasks, or use Accept suggestion (the suggestion is built from your own tasks, without AI).
• The To Today button on a task sets its due date to today.

5. Look back once a week

The Weekly look back walks you through what moved during the week. The letos.md button also copies a one-page summary of your year to the clipboard — you can paste it into any AI assistant. Letos doesn’t send it anywhere.

What next

• Turning on AI — let AI draft a goal’s plan.
• Full help: Tasks → Yearly goals and milestones.