# Beeminding getting to coffee shop by certain time each day

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**Created:** [August 11, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-getting-to-coffee-shop-by-certain-time-each-day/1043 "2015-08-11T03:55:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-getting-to-coffee-shop-by-certain-time-each-day/1043/13 "2015-10-30T18:05:01Z")

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> [@sksavant](#):
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> I think it might be quite ‘strict’ because there is no way to build a safety buffer.

As a whittle-down inbox-like goal, I think I agree that it’d be strict. @dreev may have been thinking of a do-less goal, which would enforce the average rather than put a cap on the absolute time. Conversely, a do-less goal sums the datapoints by default, which wouldn’t be helpful in this case

Couple of thoughts regarding goal settings:

- visiting the coffee shop multiple times in a day will create multiple entries. You want the earliest one to count, so [aggregate them as the minimum value](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/documentation-of-aggregation-methods-would-be-nice/549/4 "requires a premium plan to make the goal custom, or a heart-felt plea to support!"). Which is what whittle-down does by default.
- do-less goals don’t like non-datapoint days, so turn off the [pessimistic presumption](http://blog.beeminder.com/less/) setting
- setting `goal units` to “hours” will give you a nicer display of datapoints. (This may make a good #UVI, to set that if the IFTTT TOD macro is used, where we set the data source.)

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