Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
Other Items:
Might try crazy Beeminder chore setup.
What I did instead:
Yesterday I watched movies with wife.
Loopholes Found:
None to report
**Screen Time
3 hours and 4 minutes so screenshots not needed today
Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
Other Items:
Might try crazy Beeminder chore setup if I do going to create a 30-40 day buffer to start and buy some NFC stickers to automate logging chores via shortcuts app on iOS.
In other news one of my cars had battery died this morning. Today my other car had battery/alternator die and had to have it towed. Fun times.
Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
Other Items:
Never removed respite so have some buffer. Using a buffer day today. Though have barely been home today so probably a waste of a buffer day.
What I did instead:
Had a migraine did not do anything.
Loopholes Found:
None to report
Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
Other Items:
Had Migraine today, used buffer day yesterday so no screen time report.
What I did instead:
Spent some time with wife after work.
Loopholes Found:
None to report
Screen Time Report:
3hr 25min
Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
Other Items:
Doing better today have a residuals headache and some brain fog but a lot better.
Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
What I did instead:
Spent some time with wife, cooked meal and mowed lawn.
Loopholes Found:
None to report
Screen Time Report:
3 HR 30 MINS
Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
How I did Today:
Broke a rule today used reddit and tiktok today (on desktop computer not phone). This will take away my last buffer day.
What I did instead:
Went to family event today for Easter.
Loopholes Found:
None to report
Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also, day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
Other Items:
Changed things up with what I am doing with normalappsopenscr. Creating separate post on this.
What I did instead:
Spent some time with wife, cooked meal and setup new wifi system.
Loopholes Found:
None to report
Screen Time Report:
2 HR 40 MINS
Upcoming Rule Changes:
Changing rate to 0.9 to allow the accumulation of free days. Also day ends and starts at 12 am now also (far as screen time goes). Has been changed will take effect in week or so.
Other Items:
Had a good day. I did a bee blitz for the second time! I feels amazing to do a bee blitz as then I can just relax the rest of the night instead of having to rush to get my Beeminder goals done. Thanks @sheik for the idea!
What I did instead:
Cleaned up kitchen, plowed a plot for my garden, exercised and going to do some gaming with friends later. Much more fun than setting on reddit for 5 hours being a couch potato!
Loopholes Found:
None to report
Screen Time Report:
2 HR 42 MINS
The new app goal adjustment really brings down this number. Note I did not include an hour of screen time in this because it was me setting up my new home wifi mesh network. Required the use of an app and took me a bit to get the settings right. But like I said it was a required thing as before parts of the house did not get wifi and it was not mine less scrolling hence no including it.
Rule Changes:
Before I had a rule no posting before 9PM but I am changing that starting immediately to any time after 4PM. Note I will say if I failed the prior day and screen time will be from prior day but will be talking about what I did today. I am doing this for the following reasons:
I take my anti anxiety at 8PM. I take it at night as it makes me tired. By 9PM or 10PM I am usually awake but I am in a half awake state. Meaning usually I do not feel like writing a whole lot. By moving the time earlier I will be more awake and might have more interesting things to say.
I have started bee blitzing as @sheik (thanks again for the idea) talked about. I feels really good to get things done early and just be able to relax at night. As a life long procrastinator it gives a wonderful new feeling.
Sometimes I procrastinate on doing my post after 9PM as I usually don’t feel like doing much after taking my medications. Sometimes I have stayed up later because of that which makes me less motivated the next day.
Other Items:
Had a good day. DID ANOTHER BE BLITZ AND IT FELT GREAT!!! I have a lot of goals right now but have been very manageable as most goals are not super hard to do.
What I did instead:
Cleaned up kitchen, hanged out with my wifes family. Going to talk to my cousin on discord.
Loopholes Found:
None to report
Screen Time Report Prior Day:
3 HR 16 Mins
Rule Changes:
N/A
Other Items:
Third day in a row of bee blitzing. Feels good to not procrastinate. Beeminder goals are going to good. They have actually made me happier as having things not pile up because I am doing more frequently has really helped. I have made it to day 30! A 3rd of the way there!!!
Described above, for me it means as soon as I get home I knock out all my beemergency goals that are not time proximity based (such as brushing teeth before bed). In other words not procrastinating till the end of the night to do my beemergency goals.
What I did instead or plan on doing:
Going to clean up kitchen, help my wife cook, spend some time with wife and maybe help clean up the living room.
Did I do what I planned yesterday?:
Yes
Loopholes Found:
None to report
Screen Time Report Prior Day:
1 HR 50 Mins
I got below 2 hours for the first time!!! I dont expect this to be an everyday thing buy shows real improvement.
Rule Changes:
N/A
Other Items:
Not bee blitzing today though dont have much in beemergency today anyhow. I was woken up early by a tick. Took me a while to find tweezers. So really tired. It has been a good day though.
Going to break my usual format as I am really excited right now (2HR 39Mins yesterday). So one of the loopholes that existed with my normalappopens goal was it was open season when it came to my desktop computer. Well I decided to create a script with GPT 4 (some GPT 3.5 because 4 stopped working) in python had to fix a few minor errors it made.
Well I now have a script that will auto send data when I switch a tab or open a site that is not “Beeminder”. I had not really read the API documentation but that was no problem with GPT. Now I can track my desktop usage too not just phone. I could actually set it up to track desktop app usage beyond just my browser use. Below are some pictures of the output to site and general output from script. Also as a side note I was not actually browsing reddit was just testing.
Can you explain again how this goal works, please? I can see that all data points have the value one, but what is the criteria for deciding if the goal is successful or not (aka when does it derail)?
I have been logging window titles for a long time using ActivityWatch but stopped a couple of months ago because I didn’t do anything with the data, and frankly, ActivityWatch kind of makes the process overly complicated.
The idea of directly logging the titles into Beeminder is actually genius. (I am only a little bit worried that dreev is going to be upset when we spam his database.) I have thought about beeminding my window titles for a while; this could be the right way of doing that.
Edit:
I found the explanation in your other thread:
I will either change the primary value to a 1 or a 0. A 1 means I just opened the app for no reason and it was not really needed. I then will go to the comment filed and the app name and explain I opened the app mindlessly. If it is a valid reason then I will put a zero in the value and then in the comment I will put the name of the app and the valid reason I am using it.
So at some point during the day, you review all the window titles? I really like it. I wanted do something like that, but got stuck on the most efficient way of accomplishing that. Simply doing it using the Beeminder GUI is (again) genius.
