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Beeminder Buzz Press Roundup 2019
This is our 14th press roundup! The internet seems to just keep on loving us. We’re very touched! Our last one was a year ago, making this one pretty much a 2019 year-in-review, Beeminder-buzz-wise. (Speaking of years-in-review, we also collected a list of things Beeminder did in 2019 on the forum.)
Without further ado, here’s a short list of the links we’re most excited about:
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Wired has an article on four of the best life hacks from the world’s extreme productivity gurus and Beeminder is discussed in the “high-stakes hacker” section. (Also features Beeminder’s friend and integration partner, Complice.)
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Peter Allen has a brilliant video outlining the features of Beeminder and describing how he uses it.
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Tim Ferriss praised Beeminder in his podcast as a good tool for sticking to your goals. He discusses Beeminder in the context of shame and loss aversion being a powerful motivator.
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Thomas Frank continues to talk about Beeminder and the role it plays in his own productivity, including a video on the Importance of Habits. We’re also featured prominently in 8 Best Habit Tracking Apps of 2019. And we’re featured in College Info Geek’s 40 Best Apps for Students.
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The Cool Tools podcast interview with our friend Lillian Karabaic has an amazing Beeminder testimonial.
And, for completeness, below is a list of everything else we’ve come across that we believe to have been written by bona fide humans about Beeminder. Actually, we raised the bar a bit this time and jettisoned low-effort listicles or things that seemed to be mentioning Beeminder perfunctorily. But, as usual, there’s no cherry-picking. It’s really this unanimous that we’re this great. Hover over the links for dates, commentary, excerpts. (PS: We did scrounge up a couple negative ones in the list below. Haters rejoice!)
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Alex Strick van Linschoten blogged about using Beeminder to learn programming
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Beeminder is on a list of the 5 Best Habit Tracking Apps for 2019. It mistakenly claimed Beeminder is iOS-only (now corrected!) but otherwise has a nice synopsis of Beeminder. (Also features Beeminder’s friend and integration partner, Habitica.)
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Prasanna Kumarr wrote about their journey reading Infinite Jest, using Beeminder to keep themself on track
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Podcast that plugs Beeminder for household chores
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Cameron Chaleff documented building a physical Beeminder check-in button
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Phil Newton blogged periodic checkins on their major 2019 goals, often involving Beeminder
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Beeminder and Habitica on Joshua Hollings’s blog
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There are new posts tagged Beeminder on Quantified Self including talks by the Beeminder founders
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Combining RescueTime with Beeminder to form a healthy surfing habit
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A handy outline/summary of Nick Winter’s Motivation hacker mentions Beeminder, naturally
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How to Stop Procrastinating on College Info Geek has a nice section on Beeminder
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A list of gamification apps which Beeminder sort of counts as
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7 Ways to Stay Accountable to Your Language Learning Goals (and Never Give Up)
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25 Most Effective Anti-Procrastination Apps for Laser-Sharp Focus
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Kathy Reid mentions her use of Beeminder in her Quantified Self workflow
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Beeminder endorsed in the most recent Center for Applied Rationality Handbook
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A podcast on habits as compound interest which mentions Beeminder
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Another College Info Geek Article on Finding Time and Motivation for Working out in College
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Thomas Frank mentions his use of Beeminder in an interview with fellow productivity Youtuber Matt D’Avella
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Nadi De Angelis’s favorite apps and gadgets
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Reddit AMA with Joseph Reagle and the Beeminder founders and Danny O’Brien
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Life hacking: the Californian tech bro approach to self-help
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Wanikani + Beeminder = Pledge money to keep your review queue down! (so much hate in the comments!)
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BDSM inspired productivity and self improvement tips, tricks and tools?
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There’s a Beeminder GoodReads group
Last but not least — and with way too many testimonials to list — there’s everything we’ve noticed people say about us on Twitter and of course an amazing amount of love in the Beeminder forum.