Todoist goals in beeminder

So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration:

Me too! So I wrote some.
https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py.

As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only
remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured
I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it.

The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue it
generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so the
more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised.

David


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Cool! I’m not familiar with Todoist. Would it get me functionality that is
like GTBee? I have Android so I can’t use GTBee yet.

Thanks,
Sean

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David MacIver david@drmaciver.com wrote:

So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration:
Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com! – Customer Feedback for Beeminder

Me too! So I wrote some.
https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py.

As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only
remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured
I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it.

The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue it
generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so the
more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised.

David


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I’m unclear on the exact feature set of GTBee, so I don’t know for sure,
but in the sense that todoist is a todo app and this lets you make
commitments to it with beeminder, yes that’s like GTBee :slight_smile:

Todoist is pretty great based on my initial experience of it. I started
using it so that I could have some good recurring tasks, but it’s a rather
solid piece of software and I think I’ll be using it for a lot more todos
which is why I wanted a mechanism to help me stick to it.

You do have quite a lot of ability to put things off by explicitly changing
the date on the task, so it’s less of a firm commitment than I’d expect
from GTBee. I don’t know what to do about that. If it proves to be a
problem in practice I might write some more integration to the tune of “put
things off less”.

(Oh it also has an interesting karma system that I may be feeding into
beeminder at some point, but for now I wanted something I had more
oversight over the inner workings of and overdue tasks is nice and
comprehensible)

On 27 July 2014 22:12, Sean Fellows oaks64@gmail.com wrote:

Cool! I’m not familiar with Todoist. Would it get me functionality that is
like GTBee? I have Android so I can’t use GTBee yet.

Thanks,
Sean

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David MacIver david@drmaciver.com
wrote:

So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration:
Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com! – Customer Feedback for Beeminder

Me too! So I wrote some.
https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py.

As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only
remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured
I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it.

The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue
it generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so
the more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised.

David


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OK, so having looked up the details of GTBee, this is similar at the grand
scale but differs a lot in detail. In particular this doesn’t let you
commit to individual tasks, you’re just committing to not exceeding a
certain level of failing to meet due dates on any of your tasks.

I have it set to 6 which means that if I consistently leave a task overdue
then it will derail, so there’s not a *huge *difference. You might be able
to get something closer to gtbee by using priorities and having multiple
goals, one for each level of importance, but so far I don’t feel the need
for that.

On 27 July 2014 22:30, David MacIver david@drmaciver.com wrote:

I’m unclear on the exact feature set of GTBee, so I don’t know for sure,
but in the sense that todoist is a todo app and this lets you make
commitments to it with beeminder, yes that’s like GTBee :slight_smile:

Todoist is pretty great based on my initial experience of it. I started
using it so that I could have some good recurring tasks, but it’s a rather
solid piece of software and I think I’ll be using it for a lot more todos
which is why I wanted a mechanism to help me stick to it.

You do have quite a lot of ability to put things off by explicitly
changing the date on the task, so it’s less of a firm commitment than I’d
expect from GTBee. I don’t know what to do about that. If it proves to be a
problem in practice I might write some more integration to the tune of “put
things off less”.

(Oh it also has an interesting karma system that I may be feeding into
beeminder at some point, but for now I wanted something I had more
oversight over the inner workings of and overdue tasks is nice and
comprehensible)

On 27 July 2014 22:12, Sean Fellows oaks64@gmail.com wrote:

Cool! I’m not familiar with Todoist. Would it get me functionality that
is like GTBee? I have Android so I can’t use GTBee yet.

Thanks,
Sean

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David MacIver david@drmaciver.com
wrote:

So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration:
Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com! – Customer Feedback for Beeminder

Me too! So I wrote some.
https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py.

As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only
remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured
I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it.

The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue
it generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so
the more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised.

David


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Yeah I just took a look at Todoist and I agree that it is different when it
comes to aggregation. I think that the non-aggregated nature of GTBee is
more what I am looking for. But thanks for pointing me to Todoist, never
hurts to see more tools!

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:50 PM, David MacIver david@drmaciver.com wrote:

OK, so having looked up the details of GTBee, this is similar at the grand
scale but differs a lot in detail. In particular this doesn’t let you
commit to individual tasks, you’re just committing to not exceeding a
certain level of failing to meet due dates on any of your tasks.

I have it set to 6 which means that if I consistently leave a task overdue
then it will derail, so there’s not a *huge *difference. You might be
able to get something closer to gtbee by using priorities and having
multiple goals, one for each level of importance, but so far I don’t feel
the need for that.

On 27 July 2014 22:30, David MacIver david@drmaciver.com wrote:

I’m unclear on the exact feature set of GTBee, so I don’t know for sure,
but in the sense that todoist is a todo app and this lets you make
commitments to it with beeminder, yes that’s like GTBee :slight_smile:

Todoist is pretty great based on my initial experience of it. I started
using it so that I could have some good recurring tasks, but it’s a rather
solid piece of software and I think I’ll be using it for a lot more todos
which is why I wanted a mechanism to help me stick to it.

You do have quite a lot of ability to put things off by explicitly
changing the date on the task, so it’s less of a firm commitment than I’d
expect from GTBee. I don’t know what to do about that. If it proves to be a
problem in practice I might write some more integration to the tune of “put
things off less”.

(Oh it also has an interesting karma system that I may be feeding into
beeminder at some point, but for now I wanted something I had more
oversight over the inner workings of and overdue tasks is nice and
comprehensible)

On 27 July 2014 22:12, Sean Fellows oaks64@gmail.com wrote:

Cool! I’m not familiar with Todoist. Would it get me functionality that
is like GTBee? I have Android so I can’t use GTBee yet.

Thanks,
Sean

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David MacIver david@drmaciver.com
wrote:

So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration:
Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com! – Customer Feedback for Beeminder

Me too! So I wrote some.
https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py.

As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only
remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured
I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it.

The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue
it generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so
the more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised.

David


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