Goal reminders, better sorting, and more - version 2.8.0 is out!

Our new version has rolled out on iOS, Android and web. It’s a big one, so let’s take a tour.

Goal reminders ⏰

This one’s been a long time coming! You can now set a time on any goal and get a notification at that time, on your phone and on the web. Tap the time chip on the goal to pick or change it.

Tap the notification and it opens that day’s goals with the right one highlighted, ready to tick. On a repeating goal the reminder repeats with it, so “Gym at 7am” pings you at 7am every day it’s due.

And for extra accountability… Your coach can also set reminders for you! So, I guess there’s no escaping now 😅

Sort goals rebuilt 📋

“Sort Goals” is now either Manual, where you drag goals into whatever order you like, or Automatic, where you stack up to four sort levels: completed, time, colour, name, date, you name it!

You also get a live preview of today’s goals while you fiddle with it.

Keyboard shortcuts on web ⌨️

Hover any button on web and its shortcut key now appears drawn as a little key cap. The shortcuts (ctrl or cmd + I, B, D and Backspace) now work on a goal’s own screen and when you’ve got several goals selected, and there’s a new Inbox button in the selection bar.

Inside the date picker: T for today, M for tomorrow, N for next Monday, and I or Backspace clears the date.

Tick your goals directly in their edit screen ✅

The tick now sits next to the date on the goal’s own screen, and on a monthly target’s too. Tap once for done, tap again for partially done.

It’s such a small thing but feels really nice once you start using it.

Improved Email To Chat 📧

Email to chat now gives you a private forwarding address, something@in.goalswon.com, instead of the shared inbox@goalswon.com. Copy yours from “Settings”, then “Email to chat”.

Why the change? The shared address had to check who the email was from, and forwarded mail makes that unreliable. Some forwarded emails were being quietly dropped.

Your private address fixes that, so auto-forwarding from Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail and other apps now just works. inbox@goalswon.com keeps going for a few more weeks, then retires.

New to Email to chat? There’s more on what it does and how to use it in the 2.7.0 update.

And the rest

Reports get “Last 3 months” and “Last 12 months” ranges, and the CSV export now opens properly in Excel, emoji included. On Android the app icon shows how many coach messages are waiting (Samsung and most phones show the number, Pixel shows a dot). Animated GIFs sent from your phone stay animated, unless they’re over 8 MB, in which case they go as a still, sorry 😉

A long list of small annoyances are now fixed too!

As always, most of this release came from your requests and bug reports. Goal reminders in particular, it has been requested quite a few times! Keep them coming, we read every single one and it shapes how Simon and I prioritize development 🙏

Joel & the GoalsWon team

ps - on Android, “Goal reminders” and “New win” now show as separate notification types in your phone’s settings, so you can turn one off without losing the other.