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. In general one should be careful with one’s auth token since it’s basically the keys to your Beeminder kingdom.)
The idea is to specify how long progress takes per unit for each of your goals in order to sum up how much time you need to allocate per day to dispatching beemergencies (or to stay in the orange or blue or green or however much safety buffer you want).
For a while I’ve been mulling having something related to that built in to Beeminder. What I really want is something smarter than zeno polling that only nudges me at most once per goal.
Excerpt from our internal spec document:
We can replace zeno polling with something much more useful and less spammy and more nannybotty. You get exactly one reminder per goal such that you’ll finish everything just under the wire, or however close to the wire you like, depending on how conservative you are with your [estimates of how long a goal unit takes]. No lead days or reminder start time, just one reminder at the right time, on each medium/modality you specify, based on [two settings].
(Which means technically this whole proposal reduces the number of settings! Generalize the existing [precision field] slightly, add [estimates], and kill reminder start and lead days.)
In the meantime, maybe you’ll find Aad’s tool useful? Huge thanks to him for building it!