Tag: feature announcements

As promised, tare tags are live! And the old “odometer reset feature” is dead, thoroughly subsumed by the new tare tags. Background Besides knowing that taring (aka zeroing) is what you do to a scale when you want to weigh stuff not already on the scale, you need to know that Beeminder really likes cumulative...

This is a followup to our previous post on magic strings. There are three (soon to be four) magic hashtags that Beeminder can add to a datapoint comment. They’re reasonably self-documenting and if you’re a newbee you probably don’t care about any of this nitty-gritty. But we just finished cleaning this...

Welcome one and all to this announcement of our latest Beeminder integration: Curlminder. This one’s for the nerds. The idea is that you give us a URL and a regular expression, and we fetch the contents of the webpage, match it on the regex, and pull out a number. In theory you can use this to beemind...

Users have been lobbying for this feature for years. Finally we threw in the towel and implemented it. Hitting the Uncle Button (crying uncle) means accepting a derailment before the clock runs out. This is actually kind of critical to let users do and it’s silly it took us so long. I mean, for starters,...

Group goals are alive! Multiple people can all commit to a single goal! Find it in the Settings tab below your graph: Backing up, this has been in private beta for over a year. Then this past weekend I was at Manifest (which was pretty amazing, btw, highly recommended, and tons of Beeminder fans) where...