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Let me specify the fine print for a goal
When I create a goal, I'd like to be able to specify the details of what counts and what doesn't. The standard Beeminder Contract includes a "fine print" section, but there is nowhere to actually specify that fine print.
When creating the goal, I know what I want the fine print to be. Three months from now, when I will be tempted to weasel, it would be good to have a place which reminds me the rules I set for myself
7 votesAnd done! Currently in Advanced Settings. Thanks so much, Robin!
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Integrate with Twitter
Specify a Twitter handle (which need not be one you own) and optionally a hashtag. Every time a tweet is tweeted from the given Twitter handle with the given hashtag, add 1 to your Beeminder graph (with the tweet text as the Beeminder comment).
Since a lot of services have auto-tweet functionality, you can then trivially beemind any of them.
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Allow us to order the goals by size of buffer
Personally I'd find it very useful to be able to scan through all my goals in the order of how close I am to losing; so I can make sure to put effort into those ones which are most urgent.
It doesn't take too long to check through, so I wouldn't consider this urgent, but it would be a handy feature.
6 votesThis is how the gallery is sorted now, and you can customize it slightly by changing the panic threshold for goals. (The gallery is sorted by how imminent the panic thresholds are.)
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Integrate with Harvest Time Tracking Software
It would be great if Beeminder could integrate with Harvest (great time tracking, invoicing and billing software) to allow the automatic updating of time spent on certain tasks or projects. It would be most useful if you could manually select more than one task to contribute data points to a single beeminder graph/goal based on the time spent doing them.
What do you think?
6 votesWe now have this, thanks to Zapier! http://zpr.io/qqUr (Let us know if there’s any way in which this falls short of a Harvest-specific integration or any ways that it’s confusing to set up.)
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Allow me to increase my contract amount
I realized that the goal that I set for myself is too low and doesn't provide enough of an incentive. What I'd like to do is to increase my contract amount without actually falling off the yellow brick road.
6 votesAndreas, if you see this, please reply! We need to credit you with thinking of this so early.
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Generalize GmailZero to count any of a set of labels, not just "Inbox"
This would be especially valuable for me in that my Gmail Snooze program -- http://messymatters.com/snooze -- lets me weasel too much on my GmailZero goal. I want to mind the total number of messages in my inbox or snoozed to reappear in my inbox.
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Let me choose how much to put at risk (Less "trying", more committing)
It's currently free to start on a yellow brick road. If you go off you have to put $5 at risk to reset and try again. If you go off again then you have to put $10 at risk to try a third time. Then $30, then $90, etc.
Details at http://beeminder.com/money
But if you know from the start that 5 or 10 dollars isn't going to be very motivating, you should be able to jump straight to something that is.
This is one way in which stickK.com currently beats Beeminder: If you're gung ho to force yourself to shape…
6 votesYou can now commit anytime (i.e. without first losing) and jump up to a higher level on the fee schedule if you so choose. The fee schedule still sets the lower bound on how much you must commit if you drive off your road.
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Make a "safety days at a glance" page.
Beeminder is working for me. It's working really well. However I know that once my number of goals grows larger, so does the cost of reporting and cognitively tracking those goals.
I'd love to see a page which simply lists all my goals, and how many days of safety buffer I have on each. Then I can immediately tell how long it is before I have to vacuum the floor, publish some photos, write some slides, do the laundry, or whatever other infrequent "do more" tasks I'm tracking. There's no need for graphs here, just a list of goals, preferably…
6 votesOh, wow, this is a really old suggestion! We’ve been doing this for a while with the Your Goals page.
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allow tracking of Fitbit Calorie Deficit
As weight loss/gain ultimately happens if there is a calorie surplus/deficit over the long run, I'd really like to integrate with the Fitbit Foodplan goal.
Specifically, I want to have a goal so I can specify that I want to have a deficit of x calories per day.
If I track my consumed calories with fitbit, my daily score is (calories consumed) - (calories burned).
If I do not track my consumed calories with fitbit, my daily score is 0.6 votesLet us know if this doesn’t work the way you’d like. (And sorry it took us forever to mark this done! We did it last January… https://twitter.com/beemuvi/status/421431574907731969 )
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add an optional cap to the safety buffer
This is very similar to the RetroRatchet idea, and it is trying to combat the same problem (too much safety buffer), but I believe a simple cap on the safety buffer (which has been suggested in the RetroRatchet thread) is the better solution.
So for example, I have a goal to go cycling 50km/week, but I don't want to do that all in one day because I want to make a habit out of it, then I could put the cap at two or three days of safety buffer. Then if I cycle 50km in one day, the safety buffer…
6 votesWe do this now! It’s a premium feature – with
Plan Bee beeminder.com/premium – and it does exactly as suggested in this idea :) -
"Drop current progress to road"
If I have a goal of at least 10 widgets per day, but for the first week happen to do 20 widgets per day, I am able to take a weeks break without danger.
For many goals this is undesirable - I may want to do "strictly at least 10 every day" and not "an average of at least 10 in a 2 week period".
I suggest either/or:
(i) A button to "raise" the road to your current progress, so that you lose your accumulated buffer. (Perhaps this is already implemented/suggested, but I cant find anything)(ii) Set up goals…
6 votesOh! We implemented this as retroratcheting, as linked in the comments, but then forgot to also mark this as completed D:
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Ensure email import is secure
I can't find much info about this feature, except that one can send data to import@beeminder.com. Presumably it determines your identity by origin email address. If there's no other other auth then this is insecure, since I can masquerade as another user with publicly available. Information.
6 votesIt turns out the bot – bot@beeminder.com – is pretty much strictly better than import@beeminder.com , so we’ve shut import@beeminder.com down for good :)
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5 votes
You can now add multiple goals.
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make an android widget that shows all goals
the current widget requires you painstakingly create a widget for each goal. once you have more than 3 or 4, this is a huge pain! could you make a widget that shows all goals at once (preferably scrollable)? it could be a list or a quilt of the regular widgets (or both!).
the evernote widgets would be an example of how it could be displayed (grid & list).
5 votesYes. Yes we can. (Thank you for proposing it!)
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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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4 votes
(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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Beeminder as a Zapier service
I've been using Zapier a lot lately, and it's a quick and easy way to integrate with services. Although Beeminder native integrations work perfectly, it would be great to be able to connect it with the 200+ services available on Zapier.
4 votesIn case you missed it: http://blog.beeminder.com/zapier and http://zapminder.com
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Make Gravatar available for the profile picture
After all, uservoice uses it automatically :)
4 votesI’ve done this now! The default profile picture is Gravatar if you have one.
(If you’ve submitted a profile picture already, it will stay as it is, but you can remove it)
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4 votes
We now have this, thanks to Zapier! http://zpr.io/qqnW (Let us know if there’s any way in which this falls short of an Asana-specific integration or any ways that it’s confusing to set up.)
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Fix rounding bugs with amounts less than 0.01
E.g. if I have 18.0043 units to do in a goal, it shows as 18 todo. Then if I do 18, I expect it to be done but the goal sill shows 0.0043 todo.
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