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Calendialing
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
This is adapted from a forum post which was adapted from a daily beemail which was adapted from a fiftieth of Brent Yorgey’s brilliant, »
Make A Plan To Forget
Thursday, August 26th, 2021
This is going to sound painfully obvious at first — “Don’t assume you’ll remember things! Create reminders!” — but bear with me. There are two useful, nonobvious things here: Sometimes you think of something you need to remember while, say, driving, or talking to someone. You can’t always email yourself or write something down but you can still do something like... »
Beeminder ♥ CodeCombat
Monday, July 26th, 2021
Fun fact that is not remotely a coincidence: The founder and CEO of CodeCombat is a friend and Beeminder superfan and previous guest blogger here on the Beeminder blog! In fact, ... »
Beeminder ♥ Pocket
Monday, July 5th, 2021
Fractional Beeminding
Friday, July 2nd, 2021
Bethany previously described this basic idea at the end of my old Bucketminding post. »
Fake Data Is The Devil
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
“I eagerly anticipate how you’re going to write a blog post about an infohazard.” — User in the Beeminder community Discord This is going to sound funny but we’ve toyed with having a rule in the Beeminder community against even mentioning the concept of fake data. Especially funny is that instead we’re doing the diametric opposite and... »
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Hello Bright Red Line
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
I believe this is our first blog post with a theme song. Remember last year when we replaced Beeminder’s Yellow Brick Road with a so-called »
How To Name Your Goals
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
The other day year doing support, we ran into someone with a goal named “studying_4_out_of_the_8_first_hours_of_the_day”. We were so offended by this that we’re writing a whole blog post about how not-ok that goalname is. Beeminder is highly »
Beemind What You Buy
Friday, March 12th, 2021
“It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.” — Arthur Schopenhauer, before Beeminder existed Are you about to buy something that requires ongoing time or energy? Some things don’t. A meal,... »