A number is data. A target is a verdict.
"You spent $4,200 this month" is a fact you still have to think about. "You are $600 behind the pace you need" is an answer. Set a target and Glance does the second one, every morning, without you opening anything.
What happens when you drift off pace
PlayPause Previous stepNext step1You set a target: 10,000 saved by December.
2Glance works out the pace that needs. From what you already spend, not from a number you guessed.
3Three weeks later you are behind.
4It says so — while there is still time to do something. Not a red badge. A number and a date.
5You move the target, and the pace recalculates. A goal you cannot meet is not a goal.
Set where you want it. Glance works out the rest.
Above or below a line
Save $10,000 by December. Keep delivery costs under $800 a month. Run 40 kilometres a week. Aiming over and aiming under are both goals, and Glance scores them differently because they mean opposite things.
Pace, not just totals
Being halfway to a target in June is good; being halfway in November is not. Glance reads the deadline and the period and tells you whether today's number is on the line you need to be on.
In the briefing, not in a dashboard
A goal that slips is something that needs you, so it appears in the morning briefing with everything else that changed — not on a page you have to remember to open.
It says when it cannot tell you.
This is the part most tools get wrong. A goal with nothing behind it renders a confident "0" and an "on track" tick, and that is worse than saying nothing at all — you make a decision on a number that was never measured.
"Not connected to any data yet"
You made a goal before the data arrived. Glance says so, and shows you the way to connect it, rather than scoring it as zero.
"I can't tell this apart by time"
A goal with a deadline needs a date column to know what falls inside the period. Without one, Glance tells you that instead of quietly summing everything you have ever recorded.
"Some figures here haven't been checked"
If the numbers underneath came from a document Glance had to read — a photographed bill, a crumpled receipt — a goal built on them stays unscored until you have confirmed them. A wrong number in your accounts is worse than a missing one.
Goals sit on the same data as everything else.
A goal is not a separate thing you maintain. It points at a column in data you already have — from a spreadsheet, a forwarded invoice, a photographed receipt or a form someone filled in — and it updates when that data does.