Today’s post in the Advent Calendar series is about Beeminder’s Help pages. They are an excellent resource for new and experienced Beeminder users, and are regularly improved by Support Czar Nicky using a Freshening process.
Earlier this year I made a goal to read all of them and I learnt a couple of things, even after my years in Beeminder! I also appreciated being reminded of cool features I don’t use often.
If you would like to beemind reading them, below is a numbered list of all the pages to help you keep track. A simple Do More goal is all you need.
However, if you have a premium subscription, an Odometer goal might be better, and if you’ve never used one, this is an easy goal for experimenting with it. Each time you make progress on the goal, the datapoint you enter will be the number that you’re up to from the list below. That makes it super-easy to not forget where you are in the list!
If you find anything confusing in those pages or have any further questions about them, you can always contact Beeminder Support at support@beeminder.com to let them know.
EDIT: If you’d like to make a checklist for yourself to keep track of the pages you’ve read, see what @sheik has done in the comment below! Checkboxes can be entered in markdown by using [ ] (that’s square brackets with a single space in between them). The show-hide toggle can be done by adding [details="Subheading goes here"] at the top of the list and [/details] at the bottom. Feel free to make your own comment for your own checklist!
- Quick-Start Overview: What is Beeminder?
- Quick-Start Overview: I signed up — what do I do first?
- Quick-Start Overview: How do I interpret the goal page?
- Quick-Start Overview: How do I interpret the graph?
- Quick-Start Overview: How do I change my goal?
- Quick-Start Overview: What’s the best way to beemind ______?
- Quick-Start Overview: Why does Beeminder think it’s already tomorrow?
- Quick-Start Overview: How do I tell Beeminder what day my week starts?
- Quick-Start Overview: Example Goal: Get 10,000 steps per day
- Quick-Start Overview: Example Goal: Run 3 times per week
- Quick-Start Overview: Example Goal: Go to the gym 5 times per week
- Quick-Start Overview: Example Goal: Spend less time on Facebook
- Quick-Start Overview: Example Goal: Eat 14 servings of vegetables per week
- Quick-Start Overview: Example Goal: Learn a new language
- Goals: What’s the difference between the goal types?
- Goals: Why can’t I create a Do Less / Odometer / Whittle Down goal?
- Goals: What is “safety buffer” or leeway?
- Goals: Can I get rid of extra safety buffer?
- Goals: Can I put my goal on pause for a little bit?
- Goals: Can I start my goal over?
- Goals: What if I only want to do my goal on weekdays?
- Goals: What if I only want to do something once a month?
- Goals: My goal doesn’t make any sense!
- Goals: Do More Goals
- Goals: Do Less goals
- Goals: Odometer goals
- Goals: Whittle Down goals
- Goals: Weight Loss (or Gain)
- Goals: Custom goals
- Goals: What are the goal statistics?
- Goals: Can I schedule breaks on many goals at once?
- Goals: Pessimistic Presumptive Reports (PPRs)
- Data: What is my data?
- Data: How do I enter data to my goal?
- Data: What happens if I forgot to enter data?
- Data: How do I fix incorrect data?
- Data: Can anybody else add data to my goal?
- Data: Can I export my data?
- Data: Can I import previous data?
- Data: Can I change goal units on an existing goal?
- Payments: How much does Beeminder cost?
- Payments: How much do I pledge on my goals?
- Payments: Can I change the pledge on my goal?
- Payments: Can I limit how high my pledge gets?
- Payments: Can I have goals without pledges?
- Payments: How do I manage my premium subscription?
- Payments: How do auto-canceling subscriptions work?
- Payments: What if I buy one premium plan and change my mind later?
- Payments: What payment methods are available?
- Payments: How do I update my payment information?
- Payments: Why did Beeminder charge my card?
- Payments: What happens if a charge fails?
- Payments: How does premium credit work?
- Derailing: What is a derailment?
- Derailing: When do derailments happen?
- Derailing: What is a legit derailment?
- Derailing: What happens when I derail?
- Integrations: Apple Health
- Integrations: Clozemaster
- Integrations: CodeCombat
- Integrations: Complice
- Integrations: Draft
- Integrations: Duolingo
- Integrations: Fitbit
- Integrations: Focusmate
- Integrations: freeCodeCamp
- Integrations: Garmin
- Integrations: GitHub
- Integrations: Gmail
- Integrations: Habitica
- Integrations: IFTTT
- Integrations: Jawbone
- Integrations: Make (formerly Integromat)
- Integrations: Misfit
- Integrations: Pocket
- Integrations: Project Euler
- Integrations: RescueTime
- Integrations: Runkeeper
- Integrations: Skritter
- Integrations: Slack
- Integrations: Sleep as Android
- Integrations: SMS
- Integrations: Strava
- Integrations: TaskRatchet
- Integrations: The StoryGraph
- Integrations: Todoist
- Integrations: Toggl
- Integrations: Trello
- Integrations: Twitter
- Integrations: URLminder
- Integrations: Withings
- Integrations: Zapier
- Quitting: How do I quit a goal?
- Quitting: What happens to an archived goal?
- Quitting: How do I delete a goal?
- Quitting: How do I delete my account?
- Apps: iOS App
- Apps: Android App
- Apps: GTBee
- Apps: TagTime
- Apps: Android Permanotification
- Apps: Android App Beta Testing
- Apps: iOS App Beta Testing
- Philosophy: Can’t you just lie about your data?
- Philosophy: What is the akrasia horizon?
- Philosophy: Why should I use Beeminder over StickK?
- Philosophy: Can I specify a beneficiary for my derailments?
- Account Settings: New goal defaults
- Account Settings: Account details
- Account Settings: Apps & API
- Goal Settings: Goal Settings
- Goal Settings: Deadline & Reminders
- Goal Settings: Privacy
- Goal Settings: Data
- Goal Settings: Supporters
- Goal Settings: Graph Editor
- Goal Settings: Reminders
- Goal Settings: Post-derail Respite
- Goal Settings: Graph Settings
