# Advent 2022: 01. Setting Breaks and Beethinking Breaks **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [December 1, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-01-setting-breaks-and-beethinking-breaks/10640 "2022-12-01T08:32:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![alys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/alys/32/4726_2.png) [@alys](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/alys)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-01-setting-breaks-and-beethinking-breaks/10640/1 "2022-12-01T08:32:39Z")
_This is the first in [my series of “Advent Calendar” posts](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-advent-calendar-december-2022). I’ll be making one post each day until Christmas arrives. Today’s post has two parts: setting breaks and nifty ways to remember to set breaks for future holidays._ With the holiday season coming up, now’s a great time to think about whether any of your goals need breaks over the next few weeks. You probably know that you can [set breaks on individual goals](https://help.beeminder.com/article/98-can-i-put-my-goal-on-pause-for-a-little-bit). Did you also know that you can add breaks to many goals at once using [your Breaks page](https://www.beeminder.com/breaks)? Even better, you can easily add an identical break to multiple goals by providing the start and end dates in the URL. For example, to add a break from 23 December to 2 January, you’d use this URL: [www.beeminder.com/breaks?start=2022-12-23&finish=2023-01-02](https://www.beeminder.com/breaks?start=2022-12-23&finish=2023-01-02) Then you’d tick the “take a break” checkbox for all appropriate goals, and click “save changes”. Done! You can read more in Beeminder’s Help page [Can I schedule breaks on many goals at once?](https://help.beeminder.com/article/154-can-i-schedule-breaks-on-many-goals-at-once). For me, that method is especially easy for my work-related goals. I use the “weekends off” feature for all of them but not for any other goals, so when I visit the breaks page to add a holiday to all my work goals, I just have to look for the lines that have a checkmark in the “wknds-off” column, instead of needing to find all those goals by name. But what about remembering to schedule breaks for future holidays? There’s multiple ideas you can consider: - Try [Calendialing](https://blog.beeminder.com/calendial/), where you have a goal that makes you check your calendar every week to see if rate changes will be needed soon. - Use a browser extension to automatically open [your Breaks page](https://www.beeminder.com/breaks) once a week (e.g., [Simple Browsing Schedule](https://simplebrowsingschedule.wordpress.com/) for Firefox). Possibly only useful if you live in your browser but magically manage to not have too many tabs open all the time! 😆 - Subscribe to the daily or weekly Beemails, where Danny sometimes reminds us about setting breaks for common holiday periods (subscribe in the Beemail Settings section in [Account Settings \> Account Details](https://www.beeminder.com/settings/account#account-details)). - If you use Google Calendar and Gmail, try calendar email notifications and a Gmail filter to add a label, as I described in [this old forum comment](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/calendialing-scheduling-breaks-every-week-for-whats-coming-up-on-your-calendar/9541/8). I still find that useful for our public holidays! Do you have another method for remembering to set breaks? Tell us about it in the comments! Any other comments or questions you may want to make will be welcome too of course - for this and for all future Advent posts. Fun Fact: **bethink** [means](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bethink) “to cause (oneself) to be reminded / to consider” and so **beethink** has to be a perfect term for use with Beeminder! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-01-setting-breaks-and-beethinking-breaks/10640)._