I’ve been telling people in the forum about my work/life dashboard. I keep my Beeminder dashboard open in a dedicated browser throughout the day, and use it like a to-do list. At the start of the day I uncollapse all the goals I intend to work on that day. That will be all of the red goals, and often...

We’re excited to officially announce our newest autodata integration: Steam! Yes, the gaming platform. Do you buy too many games and then never get around to playing them? Do you spend too much time on that one game and have regrets? We have a solution for you. Spoiler alert: it’s Beeminder. It’s...

Beeminder is kind of notorious for its jargon. We’ve got beemergencies, an akrasia horizon, maxflux, and, most recently, tare tags. Some of these seem to us perfectly self-explanatory — derail, pledge, ratchet, commitment dial, post-derail respite — but of course they’re not. From a newbee perspective,...

Attention conservation notice: This is of no actual relevance to Beeminder users. Except the ones who are software developers, which in fact seems to be most of you. (Also AI seems to be drastically lowering the barrier to entry for creating software, so maybe this is about to be relevant for everyone.)...

This post is adapted from an earlier and less Beeminder-specific version on LessWrong. I returned from Inkhaven (see my previous post about heading there) a week and a half ago. It was intense and wonderful and I highly recommend it to fans of the Beeminder blog, if it happens next year, which it seems...

The irony is not lost on us that this post has been languishing as a draft + pile of notes for so long that it has a title image from the era when a human illustrated Beeminder’s blog. The Principle of Delayed Commitment says to consider whether a decision or task will be worse or harder if delayed. Often...

Probably some of you will be pretty enamored with the concept of a writing retreat in which you have to publish a 500-word blog post every day by midnight or you get kicked out. Well, the concept is real! The inaugural such thing, dubbed Inkhaven , kicked off three days ago in Berkeley with 41 participants....

Background: Mindful Munching with Metrics and especially Gauges and Dials. The short version of the background here is that there are a bunch of smart things you can do to manage your weight (more to the point: your size) and you should focus on those things more than the number on the scale. Also don’t...

As promised, tare tags are live! And the old “odometer reset feature” is dead, thoroughly subsumed by the new tare tags. Background Besides knowing that taring (aka zeroing) is what you do to a scale when you want to weigh stuff not already on the scale, you need to know that Beeminder really likes cumulative...