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charge a subscription fee and add some advertising.
I feel bad that I haven't paid anything for the site (strangely, not enough to donate, but happy to pay a regular price). I don't expect I ever will pay you very much, and yet I'm using the site a lot, getting a lot of value.
Heck, I paid habitforge $10 for a year!
After someone has 3 goals up and running and they've been here for a month or so, ding 'em for $20 / year.
4 votesWe now have premium plans! http://beeminder.com/premium
We’re also a little more insistent about getting you to actually pledge money on your goals.
We’re not too keen on adding ads but might try that.
Let us know what you think!
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Make it possible to create custom countdown goals
At the moment, when I create a custom goal with a current value of 200 and a target of 10, subsequent data points which are greater than 200 are green instead of red.
Alternative solutions:
the custom-goal creation dialog compares the current value to the target value, if if the current value is greater than the target value, establish it as a countdown goal.
have three custom goals name "Countdown Custom", "Countup Custom", "Flat Custom" [people in weight-maintenance mode will like flat custom"]
I am about to experiment with negative numbers to see if that works.
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Put the amount pledged in the reminder subject line
When BeeMinder sends me a reminder, it does not show me the amount I have pledged. I have >20 goals set up so I don't always remember how much money is at stake for any single goal. It would be great if the reminder contained not only the URL and the safe days, but also the money that is at stake if I miss the deadline.
0 votesWe do this now, for urgent near-the-deadline emails.
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Custom default value for failure to report
Set a Limit goals in particular would benefit from a user-specified "worst I could do" value that gets added in the absence of any user-reported data. This would be much better than the current default flat line approach, which means failure to report means you're achieving superhuman perfection on a Set a Limit goal.
40 votesThis is live (except for being able to customize the default reported value). It’s called Pessimistic Presumptive Reports and you can opt in to it in advanced settings. We’re thinking about having this be the default for Set-A-Limit (aka Do Less) goals.
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Help me develop an habit! I should be able to set up a constant goal.
Sometimes I don't wish to do more of something, I just wish to keep doing it everyday, like working on my thesis for at least 2 hours. I didn't find an easy way of setting up this goal on beeminder.
3 votesThis is very much our fault that this isn’t clear but this is exactly what a “Do More” goal does. You tell it you want to spend 14 hours/week or however much and Beeminder holds you to that. You can increase or decrease the rate as you go.
If you literally want to do something every single day without exception indefinitely then you might prefer a Don’t-break-the-chain (aka Seinfeld hack) app — ideas at http://blog.beeminder.com/trackhack — but here’s why we think Beeminder is better:
The Seinfeld hack is great once you have a long chain built up. But once you do break the chain, all the motivation it provided bursts like a bubble. You’ve got to somehow motivate yourself to build up another long chain to not break. Until then you’re on a “one more day won’t matter” slippery slope of sloth.
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Am I missing something... is Beeminder not very good at handling goals that are "do such and such every day"?
Am I missing something... is Beeminder not very good at handling goals that are "do such and such every day"?
1 voteI think this is moot now, but check out the discussion in the comments.
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Pre-fill data entry box with today's date
It would be helpful to me if the data entry box on the website had today's date already in it, or I'd the grey example text had today's day of month. When typing on an iPhone I have to switch back to the number keyboard after I hit the spacebar and this is slightly annoying. Also, perhaps something that could be easily fixed with a dedicated mobile app.
2 votesVery completed! Not only have we redone the website data entry box, we’ve got apps for both iOS and Android :D
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sync beeminder with a timer app so that people can beemind time-tracking goals, like studying or meditating
It would be fantastic if beeminder linked up to a simple timer app so that it could track goals such as
- study for 2 hours a day
- meditate for 10 minutes a day
- run for 20 minutes a day
I think this would be excellent and so useful for us students!97 votesNow built in to the Android app! We’ll let people who want this but don’t have an Android device create a new suggestion. There is already a suggestion to integrate with Toggl and we encourage people to add other such apps as suggested integrations.
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have a show/hide history button
When a goal becomes complete, you can continue but your data is hidden away as history. I know we can contact you to have it re-shown, but it would be kind of nice if you could decide at any time (even during active goals) how much history you'd like to see. After enough time passes, your data points get very tiny in order to be able to show all the dates.
So, I propose having a button/setting that allows you to choose from options like show all data, last month, last 2 months...
1 voteoh! We totally did this a while back – and didn’t update the uservoice. Doh!
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UI wonkiness
http://cl.ly/2B053E1T2e1t3e1U2G1m
Chrome 19.0 OSX 10.7
1 voteThanks so much for alerting us!
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display up to date goal stats (and phantom data point?)
For a cumulative total graph, I need to report "^ 0" in order to update the goal stats if I haven't already reported anything. It would be cool if this updated automatically — or are there cases where the current behavior is preferable?
Reporting "^ 0" also produces a data point where it might be nice to automatically have a phantom data point, once yesterday is over.
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support beeminding the interval between events
Before I found Beeminder I was thinking of setting up a schedule for events (e.g. cigarettes) such that the minimum permissible interval between successive events grows linearly (or perhaps exponentially).
If you enter intervals as data, does one of the available goal types already work for this? Maybe "Personal Max"?
This kind of goal seems more difficult to report on and comply with than the current "Quit Smoking" type, since you have to track the time of every event pretty accurately and translate back and forth between intervals and times. With a new goal type could come better support here,…
2 votesOoh, have you read our thoughts on the Seinfeld hack? http://blog.beeminder.com/flexbind/
To quote: “Such is the powerful psychology of “don’t break the chain”, also known as the Seinfeld hack. But the Seinfeld hack’s greatest strength is also its fatal flaw: Once you do break the chain, all the motivation it provided bursts like a bubble. You’ve got to somehow motivate yourself to build up another long chain to not break.”
You can definitely do this with multiple of the available goal types, if you do a bit of math first – for example, a binary do-less goal with slope 1 / (minimum permissible interval) which you adjust slope and retroratchet every time you add a 1.
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add alternating background stripe to Data table
I just edited a comment via the Data tab. it was kind of hard to determine which Edit link to tap on iPhone safari. the links are way off on the right. if the table had alternating background shading, it would be easier.
1 votedo you have a twitter account by any chance?
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delayed launch
I keep getting ideas for a goal that I'm not yet ready to take action on.
I don't want to lose the idea, but I'm incapable of taking action on it immediately.
It would be nice to be able to assign a launch date when I create a goal.2 votes(oops, we forgot to close this in 2012! You can do this – see the comment.)
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Integrate with RunKeeper and/or DailyMile
I'm tracking running with beeminder (to make sure I get in 1200 miles in a year), and it would be awesome if I could just connect up RunKeeper or DailyMile, like you can connect up the Withings account now. RunKeeper specifically has a pretty highly publicised API at http://developer.runkeeper.com/healthgraph, and DailyMile has one too with docs at http://www.dailymile.com/api
7 votesRunKeeper is done: http://beeminder.com/runkeeper
Note that that’s only for running. Vote here if you want it for walking too: http://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/4004230-allow-beeminder-to-pull-walking-data-from-runkeeAnd feel free to add a separate suggestion to integrate with DailyMile if you’d use that. Thanks everyone!
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(just in the placeholder text — not sure how useful that is, but maybe better than nothing till we revamp data entry!)
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Allow user to keep historical data on graph after unfreeze
After the graph has been unfrozen, the historical data gets erased from the graph and it starts from scratch again. While I understand that a user might not want to see how they've failed, i'm often proud of the progress i've made up to that point, and I want to keep the data on the graph (not on the "historical graph" page). It should be an option, at least.
53 votesYou can now choose whether to keep your history on the main graph.
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Put a 'Save' button on the Avatar tab
There seems to be no way to save the Avatar file to be uploaded on the Avatar tab. There should be a Save or Upload button.
1 voteWe fixed this – and then we recently switched over to Gravatar entirely, so there is no more Avatar tab at all!
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A single page for entering all your day's data
At the moment I have to go through each goal and enter my data on its individual page. I would like a single page where I could enter new data for all of my goals quickly at once at the end of the day.
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