As you complete tasks, Amplenote rewards you for following through on your past intentions. Whereas open tasks use Task Score to help you gauge which tasks most deserve your "GSD focus", its counterpart, "Victory Value," tracks the extent to which you are working on Important tasks that move you forward toward your long-term intentions.
This page will offer a recipe to help you work toward maximizing how often you work on tasks that benefit your long-term wellbeing. It will also give an overview of how to access and interpret your Completed Task Stats.
linkStep 1: Define what matters to you via Victory Value
In order to get the most from Completed Task Stats, it helps to understand the basics of how Amplenote tracks how much meaningful progress is being made on your todo lists. For each completed task, Amplenote assigns a Victory Value score that starts at 1 point (for a basic task w/ no properties set) and scales up based on:
Was the task marked "Important" (hotkey: Ctrl + I)? Completing Important tasks gives more Victory Value
Was the task in a note with a Victory Value multiplier? Not all tasks are created equal. All tasks reside within notes (where "note" is usually equivalent to a "project" in traditional todo apps), where you can apply one or more tags to the note. When you edit a tag's properties, you can pick a Victory Value multiplier that gives more credit when you finish a task in a category that is important to your current life goals
Was a positive mood rating recorded around the time the task was completed? Being the most productive person in the world isn't worth much if you're miserable while you do it. That's why Amplenote offers a ubiquitous button to record your mood as the day progresses, so that when you visit your Completed Tasks you can piece together which tasks seem to leave you in the best mental space after.
There are a few other factors that contribute to Victory Value, like working on tasks that unblock other tasks. You can read about these on the Victory Value page, but most of them are not necessary to understand.
linkFine-tune Victory Value during monthly review
Most productivity systems recommend some form of a "periodic audit" to reflect upon how well your recently completed todos have translated to meaningful improvement in your situation.
To undertake your "personal task audit," navigate to Tasks View, and toggle the option to view Completed Tasks:
Navigating to your full list of Completed tasks
Once you open your list of completed tasks, you can click on the number next to any task to open a dialog that allows you to manually adjust the Victory Value for tasks that ended up being especially valuable to you.
Every month or so, task a look through your completed tasks to mark the valuable ones according to how much value resulted from completing the task
Undertaking a periodic review of your tasks will ensure that when you open Completed Task Stats, you'll maximize the amount of "signal" that can be gleaned about which types of tasks you may want to focus on more during the coming quarter.
linkCompleted Task Stats
To open Completed Task Stats, click on the upwards chart icon shown in the leftmost panel of all desktop clients (whether web browser or desktop app):
After clicking to open your "Completed Tasks," you'll get a full-page graph of your Victory Value and Mood Ratings over a time range that you can control.
Completed Tasks pane shows Victory Value & mood rating average by day
This page remains under active development as of Q3 2025. It will soon include
Graphs of "tasks completed per day" over the last three months
Display for which tags have had the greatest amount of Victory Value during a time-selectable period
Details on your progress sticking to the habits that you are trying to establish (via recurring tasks)