Say I spend a weekend working hard on a goal and end up about a week ahead. (Concrete example: I'm going through a textbook and converting vocabulary to flashcards, beeminding pages processed.)

At this point ... well, I'm a week ahead, and Beeminder's not going to give me any incentive for all those days till I get close to eep again.

If I want to destroy that buffer and continue at the same rate with a sooner goal date, I can retroratchet.

But with the goal being less about working hard (like exercise goals or bad habits are) and more about getting a thing completed, can there be a way to destroy the buffer and continue with the same goal date at a gentler rate?

i.e. if one considers retroratcheting as (roughly speaking) compressing the road along the X axis, this would be (roughly speaking) compressing the road along the Y axis.

(I'm not sure if this would be considered a violation of the akrasia horizon — on the one hand it is making things easier in the long run, but on the other hand we are still going from 'nothing due for a week' to 'something due in a day or two'.)

AKA give me a trendline than handles periodic noise

Like a lot of people who menstruate, my weight fluctuates naturally in semi-regular cycles. Beeminder has really fancy graphs, but it seems like all of the smoothing tools are designed to handle random noise but not periodic, correlated noise. It would be nice if one of these tools (moving average, polynomial fit, optimistic projection) were capable of taking into account the sine wave and showing me the real trend.

For example, every time I enter the peak of the cycle, the optimistic projection freaks out and flattens a lot of my past progress. It's not clear to me at all why the optimistic projection is so sensitive to the upswing. On the other hand, whenever I enter the trough of the cycle, the optimistic projection assumes all the progress is real and swings equally violently in the opposite direction.

Maybe the optimistic projection isn't the most reliable way to measure my progress, but unfortunately the moving average and the polynomial fit are equally susceptible. Maybe with enough cycles the polynomial fit will eventually ignore the periodic signal (is there a maximum order?), but three months in it is definitely still over-fitting the data.

I think a lot of people find the moving average to be motivating because it helps them see the trend through the noise. For me the trendlines are mostly showing me noise and it's extremely demotivating. Right now, I have no idea whether or not I'm on the right track. Is the DC component of my signal decreasing, or am I being lulled into akratic complacency on every down-swing?

Right now, after I make an entry for the preceding day (e.g. I might have forgotten to copy the # from Habit RPG to Beeminder), I have to e-mail support@beeminder.com. After they fix the graph, I don't find out about the change until I read all my e-mail, which might not happen until several days later. By then, I will be derailed again and the entire misadventure will go on forever.

Since Beeminder already has a mobile application, it would be really helpful if the mobile software notified me when support has touched the goal. I realize that by definition, Beeminder can do all sorts of things to my goals so some sort of generic notification would be enough (maybe "Your goal has been modified by support. The goal will derail in [X days/hours/minutes]."). It would also be helpful to have a safety buffer (say, 24 hours) before I derail again so that, for instance, if support fixes things at 4 PM and the normal deadline is 5 PM, I don't have to scramble to get everything into Habit RPG/Beeminder/do anything I missed for the day/etc. in a single hour.

I searched for this topic in the forum and did not find anything similar, however, I apologize if I am duplicating a comment. It would be awesome if we could annotate our graphs and see those annotations by hovering over the appropriate spot on the graph, similar to the way commenting is performed for songs in SoundCloud.

I sprained my ankle last week and had to adjust my fitness goal to be more flat. It would be great if down the road, when I have forgotten about the injury, to be able to hover over a flat spot and see my explanation for the change in the shape in the graph.

has been discussed here:
http://forum.beeminder.com/t/giving-me-a-reward-to-motivate-me-to-retroratchet/744

Briefly:
Please give me some incentive to Retroratchet. Make me feel happy doing it. I cannot lose my efforts and throw it in the sea. I know the whole system is just a trick to my self to make me work and that is the point which is achieved by the current Retroratchet system. But that color trick works and makes me feel that the safe days are my bank account.

I suggest to make a rewarding trick for Retroratchet. Let's say introduce another measure (other than the safe days and the graph), like let's say the 'Health of this goal'. This should be points specific to each graph, and represents how healthy I am. And it reflects my long term habit on that task.