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How To Use Beeminder Without Ever (Hardly Ever) Leaving Emacs
Friday, May 11th, 2018
We’re honored to have Marcin Borkowski guest blogging for us today. Dr. Borkowski is a professor and programmer in Poland, and a hardcore Beeminder user for four years now with 39 active goals. This post is highly nerdcentric but... »
Beeminding And All That Jazz
Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
Special guest post by Beeminder superfan and real-life friend, Kim Harrison, the Director of Education at PDX Jazz. We’re glowing with pride to read how one of our dear... »
The Sting of Work: How I Use Beeminder, Part Two
Thursday, September 28th, 2017
Brennan K. Brown
is back with the sequel to his
previous article.
It’s a wonderful collection of advice and insight about creating Beeminder goals.
Recommended reading for newbees and veterans alike!
In my
The Tao of Bees: How I use Beeminder
Monday, September 11th, 2017
Brennan K. Brown has been using Beeminder for two years this week and is our new favorite user. (Don’t worry, we have a lot of favorite users. Mathematical fun fact: superlativity doesn’t imply uniqueness!) He achieved this coveted status (haha, but it does involve... »
The “I Will” System
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
“80% of success is showing up.” — Woody Allen “It should be completely implausible to describe a startup’s CEO as a flake.” — Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston’s heuristic for successful startups “Let your ‘yes’ mean yes, and your ‘no’ mean no. Anything more than this comes... »
iOS Updates: Apple Health, Today Widget, and GTBee
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017
If you have a minute to add a rating or review for the new versions we’d be really grateful! Releasing a new version wipes out the previous ratings, so we’re starting from scratch. The Beeminder iOS app just got a long-overdue update, and it includes two sorta-huge new features! Apple Health integration The first... »
Maniac Mayhem: Commit To a Month of Making Things Every Morning
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
You may have heard the term “Maniac Weekend” around these parts before. It refers to a focused, concentrated 2.5-day period where one tries to cram in as much focused work time as possible. Sometimes these weekends have actually been Maniac Weeks, requiring as much focus as possible over the course of a week (requiring locking oneself in... »
Beeminder ♥ Todoist
Friday, January 6th, 2017
Picking the right way to organize your to-do’s is a big decision. Paper & pencil, smartphone app, calendar, blank playing cards, or the old “in your head” method. A lot of folks use Todoist. While Todoist is fantastic for keeping track... »
Team Black vs Team Yellow: The Two Styles of Beeminding
Thursday, August 25th, 2016
This is a guest post by Oliver Mayor, an avid Beeminder user for going on four years. He’s a software developer who’s interested in human-behavior-shaping technology and often has pretty deep insights related to Beeminder. We were especially... »