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Planning, minimized.

Plan less. Move every goal forward.

NextTask remembers the planning you've already done. Decide the next step, not the whole plan.

All Tasks/Q3 OKRs/Hire a senior dev
  • Post the job
  • Review applications
  • Schedule phone screens
Today3This week4This month5This quarter5This year5Lifetime goals3
  • Reach out to top 3 candidates
  • Draft offer template
  • Sync with hiring manager

Open Hire a senior dev.

Fig. 1. Two goals, one afternoon.

How it works

Decide. Switch. Resume.

  1. Decide

    One session per goal. Set the next step. The decision is saved.

  2. Switch

    Move to another goal. The session you leave waits, exactly where you left it.

  3. Resume

    Open it later. The decisions you made are still there. Take the next step.

Scoped goals

See one engagement at a time.

  • Open the goal you're in. The rest is not on screen.

Triage in context, not against everything you've ever captured.

Clients / Acme integration
  • Chase API approval from platform team
  • Review data audit from Priya
  • Steering committee deck v3

Not on screen

  • Northwind onboarding
  • Beacon discovery sprint
  • Internal: senior hire pipeline
Fig. 2. Scoped goals.

Horizons

What's ready today, not what exists.

  • Work lives in horizons: overdue, today, this week, this month.

You see the four things that matter today. The other 396 wait.

All open work
Overdue3 Today4 This week11 Month28 Quarter74
  • Approve Q4 hiring plan with Sara
  • Sign off on legal MSA draft
  • Reply to board chair on agenda
  • 15 min: review revenue forecast

396 other items live in later horizons. They wait.

Fig. 3. Horizons.

Sessions

Switch contexts without losing context.

  • Each goal has its own session. The draft, the open subtask, the next step you'd already decided on.

Resume where you left it. Not where you started.

Client A · Month-end close Paused
  • Reconcile vendor invoices
  • Draft variance commentary ~ here
  • Send pre-close memo to CEO
Client B · CFO sync Active
  • Answer cash runway question
  • Pull headcount-by-team file
Fig. 4. Sessions.

Pull in what belongs

Say 'not now' once.

  • Related loose work surfaces as candidates. Pull in what belongs. Skip the rest.

Skip is saved per scope and inherited down. It doesn't ask again.

Goals / Series B prep

Pull in from Q3 OKRs

  • Pull inAsk David about cap table options
  • Pull inPull updated ARR by cohort
  • Not nowForward data room link to lead

The skip is saved per scope and inherited into every sub-goal. It won't be asked again.

Fig. 5. Pull in what belongs.

Blocker cascade

The real next step, even three layers down.

  • Blocked work hides. What's ready surfaces, even when it lives inside another goal.

Sequence, not stack.

Pricing rollout
  • Run pricing workshop with sales Blocked
  • Approve new pricing model Blocked
  • Legal review of MSA template Ready

Three layers down. But it's what surfaces.

Fig. 6. Blocker cascade.

Self-sorting inbox

Triage doesn't start from scratch.

  • Auto-labels and groupings place new tasks where they belong.

By the time you open the app, the work is already sorted.

Captured between meetings

  • Fwd: ACH invoice from Mercury vendor
  • Intro: Maya, staff PM candidate
  • Note from Q3 board: investor update cadence

Finance

Fwd: ACH invoice…

Hiring

Intro: Maya…

Q3 Board

Investor update…

Fig. 7. Self-sorting inbox.

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