I'm a very busy person with lots of projects on the go. Problem is that I try to do a bit of everything all at once, multitasking if you like. However, as we all know, multitasking doesn't work very efficiently. Audiobooks, books, pen and paper, spreadsheets..... Hectic! Then a quick Google search for "Goal Planning Software" and I came across Goalscape. Flashy, smooth, interactive, flexible, dynamic and ultimately SIMPLE! Goalscape can be used in all walks of your life, whether it be business, project, sports, life planning, career.... Goalscape works for everything! Register for an account and use the online web software, or download the desktop software or even use it as an app on your phone / tablet! Very versatile. There are templates that you can load in and tweak to suite your circumstances. Goalscape has helped me map out my various sectors that makes up my life. I can then sub divide these and see what I'm spending too much time on and what I'm completely missing out on. The Goalscape model restores balance and harmony to my life.

Smooth, simple, versatile, portable, quick to get into. Nice help guides and videos to show you how to do things.

As you add more and more sub goals, they get smaller and smaller on the main model. The navigating round and trying to remember which tiny sector is what, can be tricky - especially if you manage to put Goalscape down for a week! You can double click over a minute sector, but if that is the wrong one, then you need to click back out and click in on another one. Maybe a hover over and zoom feature similar to photo galleries when online shopping.

As CEO, I particularly appreciate the highlighting of hot spots in the project landscape. This allows me to focus on the key decision points and saves a lot of time when checking the status of the individual project segments.

With Goalscape as a central platform for target and project management, we map our complete target and project management. The intuitive usability of Goalscape made it very easy for my team to get started. All teams in our company have been working with Goalscape for 2 years. We use it to map our agile management method OKR (Objective & Key Results). What we like most about Goalscape is that we can keep track of the statuses and documentation in a complex project landscape and still map all the detail structures compactly.

At the moment we don't miss anything in Goalscape

I can see my whole workload in one picture, see the main work-packages and take more advantages in meetings as I can take notes related to each project.

It would be great to have an easy consolidation of the projects/blocks.

I had used Goalscape in the past, and without a real need for it, felt it was mediocre at best. However, when I found myself in a crisis, under pressure to accomplish way more than most people can accomplish in a short time, I found myself returning to Goalscape instinctually. There is no other app out there that allows you to budget your time and set priorities in an easy to comprehend way under a time crunch like Goalscape does. However, that is only the BEGINNING of the story. I happened to be trying to get the software at a time right when they re-vamped their entire website and business model to be cloud-based and subscription-based. I bought the software subscription, but, after trying everything within reason, could not download the app (as is expected when a new website launches in the first few hours). I went to bed and when I woke up, someone had already responded to my request for help and was on it for the entire day until we found a solution. He finally sent me an attachment file that downloaded the software perfectly. BUT, that's not even where the story really begins either: During the course of our conversation, I mentioned in passing that I had previously purchased a Goalscape Desktop license (which at the time had a promise of unlimited updates but no online service attached to it). The guy who helped me download the software tracked down that subscription, without my asking, found it under a different email address and transferred it to the new account I made all on his own innitiative. THEN, he told me that I was to be "grandfathered" into the system as a desktop user and that, while new customers must maintain a subscription to get software updates, I could cancel my subscription and keep my old user license with unlimited upgrades (which he so kindly attached to my new account). THEN, he offered WITHOUT MY ASKING, to refund my $99 dollar subscription fee if I wanted to cancel it and just get free desktop upgrades for life. So not only did this person (and the company as a whole) honor a promise they made to me and their other customers as a startup, but they were generous enough to refund me for my new subscription even though I never broached the issue myself! That is one incredible company! BUT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE! Even after this, it came up in conversation that I only had one "user license" left from my old subscription. I told the person I had been working with that I had wiped the hard drive of my old computer and sold it. He took my word for it and MANUALLY added the second device license back into my account and explained that in the future, when I need to change machines, I need to uninstall Goalscape alone first to recover the license for use on another machine. So now I can use Goalscape with free upgrades for life FOREVER, even when I change machines. Now that's customer service... I just want to say as an ending remark that I am very happy to know that there are people out there like those who work at Goalscape, so even if a copy-cat comes out with a duplicate one day, just know that these guys are incredible people and deserve your patronage. They are also working very hard to improve their product and will be coming out with major improvements in the near future, from what I have gathered. So get in on it before demand pushes their prices even higher! They have a great deal with a $99 yearly subscription. That's less than $10 dollars a month. Less than Netflix or Hulu Plus...

-- Goalscape has incredible customer support and the staff will go above and beyond the call of duty to help you. -- Goalscape is already an incredibly powerful tool for determining priorities, budgeting time or money, or just for brainstorming when you need a visual aid to help you think about the things in your life. -- Goalscape can be useful to many people for personal projects as well as to collaborate with students or other people if you are a coach or social worker. And while roughly one hundred dollars seems like a lot at first, that's less than ten dollars a month when you break it down. It's affordable and you will get help when you need it, even if someone has to override system protocols to do it. -- Goalscape is working on MAJOR improvements to their software, including allowing users to customize the field that represents what the percentages of circles mean, allowing users to color code or possibly even gradate colors of different pieces of the "pie" so that one can see multiple dimensions of their project (for example, size in the circle could represent time, while segment color gradated from white to red or green or any other color cold represent importance). The color palate may end up being able to even represent 4 or more dimensions to the project (i.e. the four psychologically basic colors: red, green, blue and yellow).

-- Goalscape does not have the features I mentioned and it may take time for all the improvement to be implemented -- Goalscape relies on Adobe Air and Flash as a way to be cross-platform and the is at the mercy of Adobe's mistakes. HOWEVER, they ARE working on developing self contained apps for Mac OS X, Windows and possibly other formats. So keep an eye out for those improvements.

I use Goalscape to: - project management - sales management - planning & presenting actual office projects - create knowledge bases - present tree diagrams as scape diagram with contextual information

Goalscape gives opportunity to manage in visual way. We can create diagram of structural data with elements like: - importance - progress - responsible - tags - dates. We can add : - notes - attachments. We can see data as scape diagram and as matching goal list or as a table. To create visual "tags", Goalscape has option to add colours to scapes and color dots to filter them later. It's possible to export diagram as: - PDF - docx - xlsx - goal map vector - goal map bitmap - csv data - MS Project - MindManager We can import: - Goalscape csv - MS Project XML - MindManager.

It's easy to start to use this software. Not to many options and great to manage in visual way. It's easy to create scapes as creative work or import input data to manage it later. I love import/export with MindManager as power-user - it's great to be able to present information in many formats without creating them from "zero".

Very Good

I like how it lets you collect and organise information in a very visual manner and easy to access interface

The inexistent possibility of adding media and accessing it anywhere and that its not phone accesible

Everyone has aspirations; whether they are subconscious, implicit, explicit, even accidentally prompted consequential aspirations. And, 'goals' are the means to attaining your intended aspirations. This is different than tasks I use a task management system and that's great, but attaining aspirations has always been a different sort of thing that I didn't manage. Then I found GoalScape. There is a natural goal-down into individual objectives that somehow parallels strategies-down into tactics. GoalScape's structure follows that construct perfectly. The interfact to accomplish this is a bit novell, but is easy to understand and adopt. Now I use GoalScape to my small team goals as well. This is a very functional practical tool for me.

Naturally applied to manage the capture/monitor the attainment of goals. Easy to use. Native desktop, and mobile versions/operation as well as the web/SaaS.

- Unorthodox user interface - (after very short use operation is understandable/functional).

Assisted in managing the individual development plans for 50+ sports coaches

Visually represents goals Accountability built in through tagging, dates, comments and other features

Would appreciate more training on it but the tool is intuitive

I really like it. That fact that it is intuitive for how my visual brain works, it means that I actually use it consistently.

The circle shaped graphical UI works well for my brain. As items/tasks/sub-goals are added, they take up space in the circle, as new pie slices. The size of these slices represent how much focus/importance you allow for each of your specific tasks at any given time. And since the area of a circle is limited, it emphasizes that fact that there are only so many hours in a day. So... as you increase the size of one pie shape in this goal management system, it means that one or more of the other pie shapes must get smaller, and therefore must receive less attention at that point in time. For me, this is very intuitive and it allows me to always have access to a 30 thousand foot big picture view.

That it logs me out regularly. It would be nice to have a setting control that allows me to "stay" logged in.

Upgrade my way of thinking, organizing and working.

What I like the most is that it helps me to organize all the ideas around a topic or a project. I can write the ideas and goals within a short, middle or long reach (even the most idealistic ones!! wishes). This in an organized way and with multiple ways to relate them with other topics.

I know it could be more friendly, I don't exactly know how.

Ich bin eher durch Zufall darauf gestoßen und war anfangs skeptisch. "Noch eine Projektmanagement-Software". Die Skepsis ist völlig gewichen. Wir benutzen Goalscape für alles – zunehmend auch im Netzwerk.

Man bekommt eine sehr gute visuelle Übersicht über anstehende und erledigte Aufgaben – selbst bei komplexen Projekten.Da die Anwendung super-einfach ist, gibt es bei der Kollaboration keine Hemmschwellen bei anderen Anwendern

Es ist nicht nachzuvollziehen, wer im Team welche Änderungen vorgenommen hat. Auch gibt es keine Benachrichtigungen, wenn sich etwas verändert hat.Dateien werden zwar angezeigt, aber nur als Dokument. Fotos beispielsweise haben lediglich einen Dateinamen aber kein Thumb o.ä.Für die Kollaboration benötigen Netzwerkpartner ein eigenes, kostenpflichtiges Account. Das ist z.B. bei Basecamp besser.

Very good

The way you can look at the progress of your projects

The price of the product is to high. No subscription please.