Score

Score turns a week of scattered effort into one number. You decide what counts and how much: posting a tweet might be 1 point, writing a blog post 5. Set a weekly target, and every tagged task, reminder, or habit you complete moves the tally. The question "did I do enough marketing this week?" becomes a glance.

Score is built for work where single tasks are unequal but the weekly volume is what matters: marketing, exercise, practice, outreach. A habit asks you to do the same thing on a schedule. A Score goal only asks that the points add up, and any mix will do; one blog post and a handful of tweets counts the same as a tweetstorm.

Goals, tags, and points

A goal is a name, a weekly points target, and a set of tags. "Marketing, 30 points a week, from #tweet, #blog-post, and #newsletter." You can keep several goals side by side: Marketing at 30, Health at 20, each drawing from its own tags.

Points live on the tag itself. A tag is worth 1 point unless you say otherwise, and it is worth the same everywhere it appears. Completing a task carrying a scored tag earns that tag's points; a task carrying two scored tags earns both. Habits count too: a daily "post a tweet" habit tagged #tweet earns a point every time you check it off. So do reminders: tag a reminder from your connected Apple Reminders lists and completing it scores the same as completing a task.

Turning Score on

Score is an opt-in Daily section. Turn it on in Customize, where the other Daily sections live. The section appears near the Tags key, and with no goals yet it shows a single line inviting you to set one up.

Tap the section to open the goal manager:

1. Type a name into Add goal ("Marketing").
2. Tap the goal, then set its weekly target.
3. Include tags, existing ones or new, and give each a point value with the stepper.

That's the whole setup. From then on, completing tagged things scores automatically.

Reading the section

Each goal is one line: its name, the running tally against the target ("17 / 30"), and a thin meter filling toward the goal. When you cross the target, the trophy fills in and the tally inverts into the goal's color.

Tap a goal to open its week: the running total large against the target, how many days scored and which day carried the most, and a Weekly pace graph with each day's points as bars and the accumulation line climbing toward the target. Below it, Contributions breaks the week down by tag ("Tweets 6 × 1, Blog posts 2 × 5"), so you can see what actually carried the goal. The sheet's Edit tab adjusts the goal in place, and Manage goals at the bottom opens the full list.

The History tab zooms out to the last half year. Your weekly average sits against the target where the week's total normally goes, with weeks met, your best week, and streaks alongside. A Weekly totals graph draws a bar for every week (full ink for weeks that hit the target, lighter for the rest), and the same Contributions breakdown is totalled across the whole run, followed by a week-by-week ledger. History starts at your first scored week, so a new goal isn't buried under empty months.

To add another goal, reorder, or remove one, use the Goals button under the goals on the Daily section (it opens the same manager the first-time setup used), or the Manage goals line at the bottom of a goal's week sheet.

The score is always computed from what you actually completed during that calendar week. Uncheck a task and the points come right back off. Change a tag's point value and every week, past or future, reads with the new value. There is no ledger to maintain and nothing to reset on Sunday night.

Browsing to a past day shows that week's score, so you can flip back and see how earlier weeks landed.

What counts

• Tasks, when you complete them (points count in the week the task was completed, not the week it was scheduled for).
• Reminders, when you complete them. Tags you put on a reminder in Finalist score exactly like tags on a task, in the week the reminder was completed.
• Habit check-ins, each one, so daily habits can carry a goal through the week.
• Tasks in connected markdown files, when their inline #tag matches a scored tag by name (the same merge that gives a #health task the "Health" tag's color). The task line needs a completion date to land in a week; Finalist writes one whenever you check the box in the app, and Obsidian's Tasks plugin does the same. A box ticked in a plain text editor carries no date, so it can't score.
• Notes never score; there is nothing to complete. A tagged journal entry scores once at its written timestamp, since it records work already done.

A few tags with honest point values beat an elaborate economy. Weight things by effort, pick a target you can hit in a normal week, and let the meter do the nagging.