The Goals Report

The Goals Report shows your active goals and how much time you're tracking against each one.

Find it under Goals & Alerts, in the Goals tab. This article covers understanding your goal progress. To create or edit goals, see Setting Up Goals and Alerts.

Your Active Goals

All your goals in one place

The Goals tab lists every goal you've set, each as its own card showing the day's progress. You can see which goals you're meeting and which you're not, change the date at the top right, and create a new goal with the + New Goal button.

💡 Met or not, at a glance. A blue check means the goal is currently satisfied for the period. A red X means it isn't yet. A "more than" goal is met once you pass the target; a "less than" goal stays met as long as you're under it.

What a goal card shows

The goal itself

The condition you set, like "More than 3h per day on Focus Work" or "Less than 1h per day on Email."

When and Notifications

The schedule the goal applies to, and where you'll be notified: by email, on your desktop and mobile devices, or a mix.

Progress and status

Your time toward the goal for the selected day, with the blue check or red X showing whether it's currently met.

Action icons

The icons on each card let you open the goal's detailed report, edit the goal, or delete it.

The star: set as a featured goal

Click the star to set a goal as your featured goal in the RescueTime Assistant, where it appears in your feed. See Meet the RescueTime Assistant.


A Goal's Report

Opening a goal's report

Click the report icon on any goal card to open its detailed report.

Goal card showing the report icon (bar chart) circled in red, alongside the timer, edit, and delete icons

Detailed report

The summary on the left shows the time logged toward the goal and what percentage of your current target that represents. The chart on the right plots your time against a green target line, so you can see exactly when you crossed it.

Detailed goal report showing 3h 53m logged, 130% of target, with a bar chart plotting time against the 3-hour target line

Use the all time and work hours toggle to narrow the view, and the Day timer button to open a live window with your time logged and Productivity Pulse.

Day, week, and month views

Change the date range at the top right to see the goal over a day, a week, or a month. The percentage of the target adjusts to the period, and you can hover over any bar for its exact total.

Day view

Charts your time hour by hour. Scroll down to see the ranked activities that contributed to the goal during that block.

Week view

Charts each day against the target line, so you can spot which days reached the goal and which fell short.

Month view

Charts every day across the month, for the long view of how consistently you're hitting the goal.


💡 Next steps. To understand the productivity levels and categories your goals are built on, see Understanding Your Data.

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