Goals & pacing
Set an hours target and watch whether you're ahead or behind — for yourself, a team, a client, project, or engagement.
A goal is an hours target you pace against — "40 hours a week on Acme," "20 hours this month on internal." ProjectPacer tracks your logged time against it and tells you whether you're ahead or behind, not just how much you've done. Find them under Productivity → Goals.
The Goals screen appears when the feature is enabled for your workspace and role. You can also hide it from your own sidebar in preferences.
Create a goal
A client, project, or engagement — pick the scope the hours count toward.
Whose hours add up toward the target — and, because a goal is shared with the same people, who can see it:
- Just me — only your time; private to you.
- My team — everyone on your team.
- Project team — everyone with access to the scoped project/client.
- Specific people — a set you pick.
- Entire workspace — everyone in the workspace.
Day or Week (rolling, with streaks and history) or a Custom fixed window (no recurrence or streak).
The number of hours to hit.
Reading a goal
- The progress bar fills as you log — accent when ahead, amber when behind — with an on-pace marker showing where you should be by now.
- Pace tells you how many hours ahead or behind you are.
- Day and week goals show a streak flame (consecutive periods hit) and history mini-bars.
- The clock icon opens the matching Hours report, pre-filtered to the goal's scope and period.
A Project team goal on work that has external collaborators shows an Include external collaborators checkbox. Turn it on to count their time and let them see the goal from their own workspace — a lightweight way to share a target without sharing the whole engagement. It's off by default: collaborators are outside your workspace. A collaborator only ever sees their own contribution toward the goal, never your team's other hours.
Your rounding setting affects goal math, since it changes how much time each entry contributes.
Archive a goal when it's done (reversible), or edit and delete from the goal card.