Let me ask this: within beeminder, do I add anything as a goal?
Yes. You should create an odometer goal that the addon will add data to.
I just reviewed a few hundred cards. Synced, also ran the beeminder sync, no data points were added to the beeminder goal …?
EDIT: I got it working! I think the issue was that it wasn’t set to an odometer goal.
Thank you!!!
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Yay.
I should make it have a clear error in that case.
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Btw, this addon also works with the Anki “gain weight” goal if you can’t afford infinibee.
Just set the units while creating the goal to “Rotestock” or “Anki cards not due”. Your starting rotestock is not something you may know, but you can find out when you connect the plugin to your anki goal and logs the first value. From there you can either ratchet or make a new goal with the correct starting rotestock.
The only issue I know of is that a gain weight goal will by default only log your maximum rotestock for the day, so if your rotestock decreases during the day and Anki logs it, it won’t count. This is not a huge issue as it will still count the next day if Anki logs the same value.
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Hey Haem. thanks so much for this. Do you know where within Beeminder I would find my starting rootstock number? I’m not sure where to look nor which number it would be within Beeminder.
edit: for context, I have set-up the Anki add-on and linked it with a Beeminder goal.
If I understand what you’re asking correctly, you should just be able to sync in anki, and then it’ll send a datapoint to the beeminder goal. Then you can just look at the goal and see what the datapoint is!
Is this not what you mean?
Thanks Poisson. Yes this is what I’m wondering. But I’m just not sure where in the Beeminder goal interface I can find this datapoint that tells me the rotestock starting number.
Right. So, if I go to my rotestock goal, I can just see the list of all the points that have been entered. (…there haven’t been any recently because because I haven’t synced anki in a few days 
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I go to the goal page (for me, it’s anki_rotestock – poisson – beeminder)
Then I click on the “data” tab:
Then I can see all the recent datapoints. Of course, for me, none of these is the first datapoint. But for you, if you’ve only synced once since setting up the extension and making the goal, there should only be one datapoint:
(Actually, I could press “show all datapoints” and scroll down to see the first one!)
(Holy shit, I haven’t synced in two weeks? how much buffer did I have! I’d better review some cards…)
Anyway, let’s do that. You can see that for me, the first datapoint was 156!
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Okay this is awesome, thanks Poisson.
It was a fairly dumb question in hindsight, but when I saw the first datapoint on my end (which shows 6 as of now… not sure if I edited it after the fact…), I was a bit confused, as I didn’t expect that number, and was wondering if I was looking in the right spot. Thank you for clarifying this is indeed the datapoint I want.
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