2026

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,...

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...

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...

Previously: Call Them “Quals” and Against Pseudovernacular Jargon. One time I went to a doctor’s appointment with our son for some knee pain he was having. The doctor asked where the pain was, if it was “below the kneecap”. My son and I both tried to clarify the question: “do you mean below as in under...

Deadline snoozing in Beeminder refers to scooching your deadline later as it’s bearing down. Traditionally we’ve allowed any deadline changes until six hours before the deadline. But we’ve always hated that. It’s arbitrary and hard to remember. We have a whole essay railing against such things — the...