This article sums up many of the benefits of blogging your family history: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Blog_Your_Way_to_Genealogical_Success. …And that’s basically what Dead Easy research goals are: blog posts about your family history research (which happen to also be categorized, suggest researc tips relating to it, and show how well previously-applied tips worked).

So finding this article was a nice piece of validation that Dead Easy will actually benefit researchers.