# Beeminding work from a queue **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [May 30, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-work-from-a-queue/3951 "2018-05-30T13:04:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![mary](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/mary/32/317_2.png) [@mary](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mary)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-work-from-a-queue/3951/8 "2018-07-12T01:48:43Z")
There’s something that I do with my emails that might work for you if a) you’re fairly good at assigning a reasonable (not too much, not too little) amount of work to yourself the day before the work has to be done and b) there’s a way to flag/star/mark certain cue items. I have a goal called “Starred” for starred emails. At the end of the day (which is past the Beeminder deadline for the goal), I go through my inbox and star emails that I want to work on by the deadline tomorrow. Each starred email is a +1 in my Starred goal, and then, on the day of, I go through and handle them and put a -1 datapoint for each once it’s been handled. The road rate is 0, so I have to come back to zero by the deadline by handling anything I starred the day before (and anything I star on the same day, which I occasionally do to force a quick turnaround on some emails). I don’t know if that would be helpful for you, but it was helpful for me in the past, which is why I just restarted it a couple of days ago. > **[starred](https://www.beeminder.com/mary/starred)** > > Clear Starred Emails Regularly --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-work-from-a-queue/3951)._