Plane 1, Productivity: Projects, Goals, and Tasks
Create a Project, define a Goal with a Mental Model, approve the generated tasks, and work a task through to completion.
The Productivity Plane is where your intentions become concrete work: projects, goals, and tasks, orchestrated with «o» and your Mental Models.
What you need before you start
- A connected AI model.
- Optional: one or two files (PDF or text) to attach as project context.
From an idea to a Project
The Plane 1 panel shows your Inbox of loose tasks, your project list, and, at the top, the card to create a new one.
Create the project
Click “Create Project” to open the dialog. Give it a name, for example “Podcast launch”, and a short description, with its own character counter.
Add context
In the free-form context field, explain what the project is about: the better the context, the better «o» reasons. You can also attach files (PDFs, documents, notes) with “Add Files”; o42 extracts the text and adds it to the project’s context.
Confirm
Confirming with “Create Project” adds it to your list right away.
From a Project to a Goal
Opening the project reveals its detail, with actions to create a goal, create a document, edit, move to a team, and save to the Knowledge Bank.
“Create Goal” opens the goal composer, the heart of this Plane: you write your goal (for example, “Publish the first episode in four weeks”), set start and due dates, and optionally a Process. You can select the project’s attachments as context, as chips, so «o» takes them into account while planning.
Below that is the Mental Models row: Systems Thinking by default, Design Thinking, First Principles, and “More models.” You pick the AI model in the selector and submit: «o» applies the lens to the project and the goal, and returns an analysis plus a list of suggested tasks.
Once the analysis convinces you, click “Approve and Create Tasks” and the goal saves with all its tasks in one go.
Working a task
The tasks now live in the project. Clicking any one opens its fulfillment view, where you update it, converse with «o» about it (with its own model selector, without leaving the context), and mark it complete.
Tasks with no goal live in the Plane’s Inbox, to process whenever you like. That’s the full cycle: project, goal with a lens, tasks, execution.
Go deeper: the philosophy of Plane 1
Why productivity, in o42, is inseparable from the real conditions that sustain it.
Next: Plane 2, Contacts CRM
From intention to action. Next: cultivate your relationships with the Plane 2 CRM.