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Commitwall: No More Beeminding Without A Way To Be Charged Money
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
If you’re nervous about handing over your credit card number, let us start by solemnly promising that we’re super trustworthy. Wait, that’s exactly what a scammer would say. Ok, getting more specific: We promise you won’t ever be charged due to any kind of technicality, including confusion about how Beeminder works. (You won’t be charged at all if... »
Beeminder ♥ Clozemaster
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
We’re excited to officially announce our newest integration partner: Clozemaster! We’ve even got the Clozemaster folks themselves here guest-blogging for us to tell you what Clozemaster... »
Beeminder ♥ Strava
Friday, October 12th, 2018
Beeminder ♥ Toggl
Friday, September 7th, 2018
We have so many opinions about time tracking! To start, there are three fundamental ways to track your time: Manually Passively Stochastically For passive tracking, you should install RescueTime (and hook it... »
Feature Announcement: General Mercy
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth and derailing on a Beeminder goal meant getting a week of respite. That is still in fact the default. After derailing you get a week of safety buffer. It gives you »
Feature Unannouncement: Exponential Roads Going Piecewise Linear
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
We have what sounds like bad news for Beeminder supernerds who use fanciness like exponential roads, but hear us out! We’re getting rid of exponential roads. I know, gasp! We’ve already migrated the small number of exponential roads... »
Announcement: Beeminder Adds PayPal as a Payment Option
Thursday, July 6th, 2017
Guess what? This is not actually the most buzzworthy Beeminder-related news right now. There’s some even bigger (and entirely unrelated) news that we can’t share yet. How’s that for an infuriatingly vague teaser? But to hold you over, we thought we’d let everyone know that as of this week we finally officially support PayPal. As in, you can now authorize... »
Third-Party App Developers Rejoice: No More Polling For Autodata
Thursday, April 20th, 2017
In case you’re not a programmer and the title didn’t already scare you off, we’ll start by explaining why this matters for end users. Until now, anyone who wrote a 3rd-party autodata integration — automatically sending data to Beeminder — had to implement their own strategy for how often to check for new data. Typically this would... »
Newbee Corner: Beemind Your Writing (By Word Count, Automatically)
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
For the last National Novel Writing Month we announced our new official URLminder integration. Well it’s been several months now and that integration has come a long way. So we wanted to both tell you about how... »