Application example: How to work undisturbed

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Make a decision

The example

Paul still has the bill from the utility company on his back. He wants to save energy and is thinking about investing in a service water heat pump. His girlfriend Lara instead prefers to save the money for the new car.

Paul wants to weigh his decision carefully. That is not easy. There are arguments for and against. And among the costs and savings, some are one-offs and others are ongoing costs. It's a good thing that meineZIELE offers a thorough overview for this.

This example shows what that looks like.

Paul uses the file template

The example is opened from the program:
Menu Knowhow > Examples > Goals > Decisionmaking.

What is there to learn?

You will learn,

how to confront arguments
how to get sums
which versions of pro/contra exist

Let's see how he does it:

Two lists of arguments

Paul starts in the Goals view and forms two sets of arguments: what are the pros and cons of getting it. This quickly results in two small outlines.

After that it is just one click to confront the arguments

Compare numbers

Paul is not into math. But he is aware that in this case there are annual costs and savings, but also one-off costs. He looks at the types of ratings meineZIELE offers him:

Paul discovers 2 buttons with which he can change the evaluation columns behind the arguments:

He could choose icons to mark positive and negative. But he wants separate columns for positives and negatives anyway. So that is not suitable here
He could choose the budget column. But that would not offer him a distinction between one-off and ongoing costs
And then he finds the solution: two columns of numbers that he can name himself

With button we can switch between icons and numbers. With button we can switch between one number or two of them.

Paul guesses the numbers

Paul's numbers are a bit out of thin air. He's going to fix that. But he wants at least a reasonably complete picture. He enters the figures directly in the pro/con view.

meineZIELE provides "free fields" for any use. There are for texts, as in the book list example, but also for numbers. Paul only adjusts the desired field names. To do this, he opens any entry and changes the field name in the details. This then applies to all lines. Finished.