The gap a goal roadmap is supposed to close
You know what you want. You have written it down more than once. The written version is somewhere — a note, a document, the back of last year's planner — and the work that would actually move it is somewhere else entirely, scattered across a task app, your calendar, and the mental list you run through at 2am.
That gap is the whole problem. Not motivation, not discipline. The plan and the work live in different places, so the plan drifts out of date the moment real life edits it, and after a few weeks you stop trusting it enough to open it.
A goal roadmap closes the gap by keeping the destination, the conditions, the next actions, and the evidence in one structure you can see at once.
What it looks like in Minty Path
A Growth Path is one goal with its own canvas. The outcome sits at the centre; the conditions that must hold branch off it; the actions, notes, reminders, and evidence live inside the branch they belong to rather than in a separate app.
Two views over the same map, because planning and doing want different things:
- Plan View — the whole structure. Pan, zoom, drag branches, collapse what you are not thinking about, and draw dashed relationship lines where one branch genuinely depends on another. This is where you find out that two branches were the same concern, or that the order you assumed was wrong.
- Work View — one branch at a time, with its status, Focus, Todos, Notes, Reminders, dates, and Evidence. This is where Tuesday happens.
You are never asked to keep the two in sync. They are the same map.
The three constraints that make it hold up
Most planning tools let you build anything, which is why most plans rot. These are the places Minty Path deliberately refuses:
Minty Path encourages keeping Focus to one to three branches. This is practical guidance rather than a hard product limit. Focus is independent of status and dates, so marking a branch Focus says only "this is where attention goes now." Everything else stays visible and inactive, which is the honest state of most of any plan.
A branch cannot be Complete without Evidence. No self-declared completion. Attach the file, the link, the screenshot, the result, or a written note explaining what you applied — or the branch stays open. This is the constraint people push against for a week and then rely on, because a plan that can only be closed with evidence stops filling up with things you vaguely decided were finished.
Parent branches complete themselves. They are structural, carry no manual status, and become Complete only once every end branch beneath them is Complete. You never mark a category done. It finishes when the work under it does.
Two kinds of date, kept apart
An Aim date is a soft target you chose. A Deadline is fixed by something outside you — an exam, an application window, a contract.
Minty Path keeps a passed Aim date calm instead of turning it red. That is deliberate: once a tool renders every missed self-imposed target as overdue, red stops carrying information, and the one date that genuinely could not move gets ignored with the rest. Most branches need no date at all.
When the goal outgrows the map
Sometimes a branch turns out to be a project. Copy, Move, and Link each turn a branch into its own Growth Path — Move takes it out, Link leaves a shortcut behind. And if you end up with more paths than direction, Merge folds one into another as an independent branch on the same canvas.
One path can be Primary. The rest stay Active, Paused, Completed, or Archived. Paused is a real state, and having a name for it is what stops you abandoning things by accident instead of parking them on purpose.
Start without an account
You do not need to sign up to find out whether this suits how you think. Open the workspace and build a real Growth Path in your browser — the full Plan View and Work View, not a demo video or a screenshot tour. It saves in that browser, and if you later create an account you can bring the path with you as your first owned map.
No account. No install. No AI required — the optional AI features are provider-neutral and never turn on by themselves.
If you would rather start from structure
Working from a blank canvas is harder than it looks. The template library has starting structures for career changes, exam preparation, language learning, side businesses, habit building, and personal resets — each one a real branch layout you rename and edit, not a filled-in example you have to dismantle first.