# Akrasia **URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/c/akrasia/5.md?page=1 [Latest](https://forum.beeminder.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.beeminder.com/categories.md) **Page:** 2 --- ## [Zero net calories PPR](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/zero-net-calories-ppr/12749)
**Author:** [@joemjr2](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/joemjr2)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2026, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/zero-net-calories-ppr/12749 "2026-03-29T07:33:42Z")
Sorry if this has been I’ve been asked before. I’ve found somewhat similar questions, but nothing that’s quite the same. I’ve been using a “do less” goal to track something similar to net calories. Basically, I set a … --- ## [Learning Latin](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/learning-latin/12667)
**Author:** [@rubygagotoku](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/rubygagotoku)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/learning-latin/12667 "2026-03-25T18:55:39Z")
I am excited to commit to learning Latin in 2026 with the help of Beeminder! I’d really love to talk to anyone else who is studying Latin or has had past success with the language. What worked for you, what would you do … --- ## [Meta goals for managing exceptions and correlated derailments](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/meta-goals-for-managing-exceptions-and-correlated-derailments/12744)
**Author:** [@gfredericks](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gfredericks)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2026, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/meta-goals-for-managing-exceptions-and-correlated-derailments/12744 "2026-03-15T15:28:50Z")
I’ve noticed myself using a pattern that I haven’t seen described before. It addresses two problems: Dealing with unanticipated disruptions that prevent you from working on a goal, which doesn’t pair well with edge-ska… --- ## [Strava: Add more activities](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/strava-add-more-activities/12738)
**Author:** [@tritici](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/tritici)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2026, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/strava-add-more-activities/12738 "2026-03-05T21:53:28Z")
Searched quickly but didn’t find any other discussions. Strava supports a bunch more activities than are available to Beemind. I know a handful have been added to Strava recently, so I assume there’s just been some drif… --- ## [Forgetting to log data before bed](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/forgetting-to-log-data-before-bed/12700)
**Author:** [@dbyler](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dbyler)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2026, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/forgetting-to-log-data-before-bed/12700 "2026-03-04T11:28:10Z")
Hi folks, like many of you, I usually check my Beeminder before bed and knock out a thing or two that I need to log a datapoint for. The problem: sometimes, having completed a goal, I congratulate myself on my desired b… --- ## [Do you use Fatebook? What do you use it for?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/do-you-use-fatebook-what-do-you-use-it-for/12318)
**Author:** [@hnsn](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/hnsn)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/do-you-use-fatebook-what-do-you-use-it-for/12318 "2026-02-23T12:16:50Z")
I just saw the blog post about the Fatebook integration. What an intriguing site! And it sounds like at least a few of y’all use it to make predictions. Do you mind sharing what kinds of things you’re using it to predict… --- ## [Beebudget: Beeminder Goals and Time Budgeting](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beebudget-beeminder-goals-and-time-budgeting/12521)
**Author:** [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beebudget-beeminder-goals-and-time-budgeting/12521 "2026-02-21T13:47:01Z")
Check out this tool that @aad made: (It requires your personal auth token to log in, which you can find at beeminder.com/api/v1/auth\_token.json and in this case I can vouch that it’s safe to put that into Aad’s app. I… --- ## [Beeminding Anki reviews?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-anki-reviews/9021)
**Author:** [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2026, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-anki-reviews/9021 "2026-02-13T01:26:14Z")
I’d like a way to automatically beemind the number of Anki reviews I do using the latest version of Anki, but it appears that the existing add-ons to do that don’t work with the newest version of Anki. Does anyone have a… --- ## [Anki addon: maintained progress](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-addon-maintained-progress/5062)
**Author:** [@bluetulip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/bluetulip)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2026, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-addon-maintained-progress/5062 "2026-01-31T17:45:13Z")
Here’s my anki 2.1 addon for beeminding maintained progress: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1928083890 It tracks rotestock: the number of cards that you have started studying and are caught up on reviewing See the add… --- ## [See how your goal deadlines are distributed throughout the day](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/see-how-your-goal-deadlines-are-distributed-throughout-the-day/12704)
**Author:** [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/see-how-your-goal-deadlines-are-distributed-throughout-the-day/12704 "2026-01-28T14:17:37Z")
Mentioned this in my newsletter, but thought I’d put it here, too. I just added a buzz schedule command to the buzz CLI that visualizes how your deadlines fall throughout the day. I’m already finding it useful when I ne… --- ## [2025 Goal Reflections](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/2025-goal-reflections/12702)
**Author:** [@joboman555](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/joboman555)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/2025-goal-reflections/12702 "2026-01-26T20:50:48Z")
I’m new to Beeminder, and one of the things I love most about this forum is hearing from all the awesome people using Beeminder in interesting ways. Having just wrapped up the year, I thought it might be interesting to … --- ## [The weirdest way possible to use Beeminder as a todo list](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-weirdest-way-possible-to-use-beeminder-as-a-todo-list/12692)
**Author:** [@emeraldnext](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/emeraldnext)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-weirdest-way-possible-to-use-beeminder-as-a-todo-list/12692 "2026-01-08T20:31:43Z")
I have found a very very weird way to use Beeminder as a todo list, and it involves setting a do less goal with a cap of five todos. My do less goal means that if at any given time I have more than five todos due by the… --- ## [Postminder Thread: Link us to your Beeminder graph for forum-posting](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/postminder-thread-link-us-to-your-beeminder-graph-for-forum-posting/12287)
**Author:** [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2026, 5:36am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/postminder-thread-link-us-to-your-beeminder-graph-for-forum-posting/12287 "2026-01-07T05:36:47Z")
We’re about to launch a new autodata integration for this very forum. If you want to try it out, you can get your first +1 added to your graph for almost free by posting a link to your forum-posting Beeminder goal. Here’… --- ## ['Diminishing rewards' for goals?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/diminishing-rewards-for-goals/12688)
**Author:** [@evndenmvgcbk](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/evndenmvgcbk)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2026, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/diminishing-rewards-for-goals/12688 "2026-01-05T20:42:34Z")
Hi! Been using Beeminder for a while now, first time poster. I have several goals of the form ‘spend at least X minutes on Y task, most days’. For example, I’m starting a new goal where I try to spend 15 minutes on a ka… --- ## [The Dice Hack for Long Todo Lists](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-dice-hack-for-long-todo-lists/12661)
**Author:** [@byorgey](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/byorgey)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-dice-hack-for-long-todo-lists/12661 "2026-01-03T19:52:50Z")
I wanted to write about a productivity technique that has been working well for me recently. I might eventually turn this into a proper blog post or something, but wanted to get people’s feedback here. tl;dr: I’ve mana… --- ## [New Year’s Resolutions: No Excuses 2025](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-year-s-resolutions-no-excuses-2025/12081)
**Author:** [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-year-s-resolutions-no-excuses-2025/12081 "2026-01-01T18:02:04Z")
December is drawing to a close, and so is 2024’s Ride or Die resolution thread. That means it’s time to be thinking about resolutions for 2025! Last year, the aim was to go all year without derailing at all. But that’s … --- ## [New Month's Resolutions 2025](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions-2025/12082)
**Author:** [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions-2025/12082 "2026-01-01T13:15:29Z")
Yep, we’re back! Last year, a bunch of us got together and committed to try to make a new goal each month in 2024. Personally, I tried out stuff like journalling in the morning, stopping snacking by 3 hours before bed, … --- ## [New Year Goal Hygiene](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-year-goal-hygiene/12679)
**Author:** [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-year-goal-hygiene/12679 "2026-01-01T12:16:23Z")
Today I’ve pressed ‘archive’ on a goodly number of goals that are no longer serving me. Looks like it’s 8 out of 40. Several of those were goals that I created in the summer of 2021, so nearly 5 years of keeping more or… --- ## [Restarting Exactly The Same Goal for Language Learning](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/restarting-exactly-the-same-goal-for-language-learning/12677)
**Author:** [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/restarting-exactly-the-same-goal-for-language-learning/12677 "2025-12-30T17:50:53Z")
It often happens that when I create a new goal, I happen to choose the same name as a previous, long forgotten goal. Usually the topic is the same, but the way I want to ensure progress has changed. Today, when this hap… --- ## [shanaqui’s Beeminder Journal: 2025](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaqui-s-beeminder-journal-2025/12102)
**Author:** [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaqui-s-beeminder-journal-2025/12102 "2025-12-26T15:17:42Z")
Well, happy new year and welcome 2025! Time for my first check-in of the year, and thus time to make my sixth Beeminder journal thread. What’s this? Each week, I post a summary/reflection on my beeminding from the prev… --- ## [Goal troubleshooting around holiday issues...](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-troubleshooting-around-holiday-issues/12649)
**Author:** [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-troubleshooting-around-holiday-issues/12649 "2025-12-13T16:12:25Z")
Greetings folks! I find myself in need of a rubber ducky (at least) and perhaps some external opinions about one of my goals, since my usual method of talking it out with my wife hasn’t led either of us to any solid fee… --- ## [Confusion on "Hard Cap By Day" numbers](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/confusion-on-hard-cap-by-day-numbers/12656)
**Author:** [@joemjr2](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/joemjr2)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/confusion-on-hard-cap-by-day-numbers/12656 "2025-12-11T20:30:46Z")
I have a “Do Less” goal. I originally had the allowance set to 5x per week (5/7 or .71 per day). Recently, I decided to give myself a bit more of an allowance, and changed it to 1 per day. If I’m not mistaken, the new… --- ## [Do you hate running?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/do-you-hate-running/12655)
**Author:** [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/do-you-hate-running/12655 "2025-12-09T14:58:12Z")
I kind of do, but this weekend, while binging Tom 7’s YouTube videos, I spotted this gem: I dropped that in the Discord and @rperce liked the vibe of it but pointed out that a mile is a lot (it does say “like” a mile… --- ## [Once more unto the breach: yet another phone-usage goal](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/once-more-unto-the-breach-yet-another-phone-usage-goal/12530)
**Author:** [@poisson](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/poisson)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/once-more-unto-the-breach-yet-another-phone-usage-goal/12530 "2025-11-19T03:15:37Z")
As some may know, I have a long history of struggle with being distracted by my phone. At one point, I had an autodata do-less goal using IFTTT for unlocking my phone. I think this mostly failed because it was susceptibl… --- ## [How to track a number of habits in Beeminder](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-a-number-of-habits-in-beeminder/12561)
**Author:** [@mbork](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mbork)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-a-number-of-habits-in-beeminder/12561 "2025-11-02T17:54:22Z")
Hi folks, I want to use Beeminder to track my habits. These are (mostly) very small habits, like (usually) 1-2 minutes per day, and there are quite a few of them (about a dozen), so I don’t really want to have a separat… --- ## [Success with accountability groups / accountabilibuddies?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/success-with-accountability-groups-accountabilibuddies/12352)
**Author:** [@kyle](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/kyle)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/success-with-accountability-groups-accountabilibuddies/12352 "2025-10-31T10:31:26Z")
I was wondering if anyone here has had success with longer term accountability groups / accountabilibuddies, and if so what has made them work for you? I have had the rough shape of what my ideal group would look like -… --- ## [My gissue freshening workflow](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/my-gissue-freshening-workflow/12559)
**Author:** [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/my-gissue-freshening-workflow/12559 "2025-10-22T23:40:56Z")
This came up in the Discord and I added it as a comment on the Freshenable Collections blog post for posterity but I thought I’d share here as well. (By “thought I’d” I mean I have a beemergency to move something that wa… --- ## [Buzz: Another Terminal Interface for Beeminder](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/buzz-another-terminal-interface-for-beeminder/12557)
**Author:** [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/buzz-another-terminal-interface-for-beeminder/12557 "2025-10-20T21:28:26Z")
I built a thing. I wanted the grid display I have with my custom dashboard in the terminal. Here it is: Also talked about it in my newsletter: --- ## [Looking for tips to replenish motivation](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/looking-for-tips-to-replenish-motivation/12538)
**Author:** [@hillwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/hillwolf)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2025, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/looking-for-tips-to-replenish-motivation/12538 "2025-10-01T05:56:30Z")
I’ve noticed over the past year that whenever I start a new habit, I seem to have an endless supply of motivation—at least at first. It feels like a burst of excitement that makes the habit almost effortless to follow. S… --- ## [Add progress (∑) — Sigma for Summing](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/add-progress-sigma-for-summing/12536)
**Author:** [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/add-progress-sigma-for-summing/12536 "2025-09-30T12:54:04Z")
I noticed today that the dashboard data entry button now has an intriguing sigma sign on it. Tooltip says ‘Sigma for Summing’ because, well, maths notation. The intriguing bit for me is that it implies that non-sigma pa… [Previous page](https://forum.beeminder.com/c/akrasia/5.md) [Next page](https://forum.beeminder.com/c/akrasia/5.md?page=2)