Goal Tracking

by ballred

Goal Tracking is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by ballred in obsidian-claude-pkm.

1.8K stars124 forkson ballred/obsidian-claude-pkmAdded 2026/08/18+4% in starsRepository updated 2026/02/18

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Install Goal Tracking

Copy Goal Tracking into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/tree/main/vault-template/.claude/skills/goal-tracking ~/.claude/skills/goal-tracking

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: vault-template/.claude/skills/goal-tracking/SKILL.md in ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/goal-tracking
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Goal Tracking does

Goal Tracking helps you track progress toward 3-year, yearly, monthly, and weekly goals by calculating completion percentages, identifying stalled goals, and connecting daily tasks to objectives. Use it during goal reviews and progress tracking in Obsidian.

Goal Tracking is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Goal Tracking comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, goal-tracking, obsidian and pkm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Goal Tracking Skill

Track and manage the cascading goal system from long-term vision to daily tasks.

Goal Hierarchy

Goals/0. Three Year Goals.md   <- Vision (Life areas)
    ↓
Goals/1. Yearly Goals.md       <- Annual objectives
    ↓
Projects/*/CLAUDE.md           <- Active projects (bridge layer)
    ↓
Goals/2. Monthly Goals.md      <- Current month focus
    ↓
Goals/3. Weekly Review.md      <- Weekly planning
    ↓
Daily Notes/*.md               <- Daily tasks and actions

Goal File Formats

Three Year Goals

## Life Areas
- Career: [Vision statement]
- Health: [Vision statement]
- Relationships: [Vision statement]
- Financial: [Vision statement]
- Learning: [Vision statement]
- Personal: [Vision statement]

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Goal Tracking provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/project
/weekly
/daily
/monthly

Frequently asked about Goal Tracking

What else does ballred publish alongside Goal Tracking?
Goal Tracking is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adopt Vault, Check Links and Daily. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Goal Tracking does, and is maintained by ballred in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm page.
How does Goal Tracking compare to other Data skills?
Goal Tracking ranks #355 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Goal Tracking against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.