Unified Tagging and Multi-Area Assignment Across Griply

Background

Griply currently supports life areas, visions, goals, tasks, and habits, but the way content can be categorized and connected differs between these levels. For example, habits can already be assigned to different life areas, while tasks are tied to a single area. This makes it harder to reflect values, themes, or cross-cutting priorities consistently across the entire hierarchy.

As an example,Users who work in a value-based way need a simple and consistent method to mark and filter content across life areas, goals, tasks, and habits.

User Need

As a user, I want a unified way to tag and assign items across all levels of Griply—from life areas down to habits—so that I can organize my content by values, themes, or strategic priorities instead of only by single life areas.

This should work consistently for visions, goals, tasks, and habits, and support both:

• Value-based tagging across the entire hierarchy.

Optional multi-area assignment for tasks and goals, similar to how habits can already belong to multiple life areas.

Problem Statement

Currently, there is no single, consistent mechanism to:

• Apply value-based or thematic tags across visions, projects, goals, tasks, and habits.

• Assign projects, goals as well as tasks to multiple life areas in the same flexible way as habits.

• Filter, search, or visualize content by these tags or multi-area assignments.

As an example, This limits the ability to use Griply as a truly value-driven system where one value (for example “health”, “growth”, “connection”, or “contribution”) can be followed from the vision level down to daily actions.

How might we enable unified tagging and flexible multi-area assignment across all levels of Griply while keeping the experience simple and intuitive?

Solution Option A: Unified Tagging System

Introduce a global tagging system that can be applied consistently across all content types.

Core Idea

• Tags can be added to:

  • Life areas

  • Visions

  • Goals

  • Tasks

  • Habits

• Tags are managed centrally in a tag library.

• Users can create, rename, merge, and archive tags.

• Tags can be color-coded or grouped by category (for example “values”, “themes”, “projects”).

• Example Use Case: Value-Based Vision and Goal Setting

  A user defines core values such as:

  • Connection

  • Contribution

  • Stability

  These values are created as tags. The user then:

  • Tags their vision statements with relevant values.

  • Tags goals that support those values.

  • Tags tasks and habits that contribute to the same values.

  • Later, they can:

    • Filter all content by a specific value tag.

    • See which goals, tasks, and habits support “Connection“ across all life areas.

    • Identify gaps where a value is present in the vision but weakly represented in daily actions.

  • This option keeps the existing life-area structure but completeds the second, orthogonal dimension via tags for organization.

  • Solution Option B: Consistent Multi-Area Assignment

    Extend the existing multi-area behavior of habits to goals and tasks, so that any item can belong to multiple life areas.

    Core Idea

    Habits can already be assigned to multiple life areas.

    Goals and tasks should support the same behavior:

    One goal can belong to “Health” and the value “Connection”.

    One task can belong to “Career” and the value “Contribution”.

    Life areas remain the primary organizational structure.

    Multi-area assignment is optional; single-area assignment remains the default.

  • A task such as “Prepare weekly meal plan” might:

    • Belong to “Health” and the value (repurposed life area)“Discipline”.

    • Appear in both contexts depending on how the user wants to review their week

• Solution Option C: Combined Approach (Tags + Multi-Area)

  Combine both approaches so users can:

  • Assign items to multiple life areas where relevant.

  • Add value-based or thematic tags in parallel.

  This would support different mental models:

  • Users who think primarily in life areas can rely on multi-area assignment.

  • Users who think in values, themes, or projects can rely on tags.

  • Advanced users can use both dimensions together.