# Binary-type goal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Newbee\ **Created:** [January 23, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939 "2017-01-23T23:26:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/1 "2017-01-23T23:26:36Z")
Half of my beeminder goals are binary, in the sense that the data I’m tracking is a yes/no answer to the question “did I do the thing [leave the house, do laundry, etc] today?” Thus the only datapoint I ever add is “1”, to indicate I did, in fact, do the thing. Now that autofill is dead (long live autofill), I have to click the “+” and submit every time I want to mark the thing as done, which doesn’t sound like much, but I have hand problems, so I try to avoid mouse movements as much as possible. Does anyone else have goals of this format? If it’s a reasonably common goal type, it might be worth considering adding a “checkmark” goal type to the current list of goal types, where hitting “Add Progress” would always just add one to the graph. ---
**Author:** ![kenoubi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/kenoubi/32/842_2.png) [@kenoubi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/kenoubi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/2 "2017-01-23T23:31:52Z")
Or just default the value to 1 for any goal with aggday = binary or aggday = count. ---
**Author:** ![gretchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@gretchen](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gretchen)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/3 "2017-01-24T00:00:53Z")
Another characteristic I’d expect of a “checkmark” goal is for integery to be turned on by default. ---
**Author:** ![matti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/matti/32/2506_2.png) [@matti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/matti)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/4 "2017-01-24T09:39:21Z")
Little bit off topic: Is that (= making a goal integery) btw. something I can activate now as an infinibee? And how? ---
**Author:** ![are](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@are](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/are)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/5 "2017-01-24T20:07:58Z")
You need custom goals for that, which is a feature of Bee Plus at $16/mo. Though it’s much cheaper the more you buy, as I’m sure you’ve seen on the [premium page](https://www.beeminder.com/premium). ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/6 "2017-01-25T08:13:02Z")
I also have goals in which I add an explicit zero or one, for which pressing the `–` rather than the `+` would be handy. ---
**Author:** ![n54843](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@n54843](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/n54843)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/7 "2017-01-29T19:19:19Z")
For goals where I only ever enter one at a time, I used [Push by Zapier](https://zapier.com/blog/push-by-zapier-google-chrome-extension/), a google chrome extension. Adding one to a goal required two clicks from anywhere in the browser (less than 2 clicks/goal if writing to multiple goals at a time). I was happy with it for a while, but I did stop using this process, because I had to sign in to Zapier more often than was worth it for the number of goals (two) I was updating there, and I found the andriod app to be just as easy. ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/8 "2017-01-30T10:18:44Z")
Can also use the IFTTT button to make adding ‘the usual’ datapoint a quick exercise. Our Android app also supports widgets, but as an iPhone person I can’t check whether they also make it super-simple to add a +1. ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/9 "2017-01-31T06:15:44Z")
The desktop widgets that are part of the Beeminder Android app make this quite nice: you can make the default amount be +1 and then it’s 2 taps from the desktop (once to open the goal, again for the submit button). The IFTTT button is especially slick and can be one tap right from the desktop. ---
**Author:** ![ssteiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@ssteiner](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/ssteiner)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/binary-type-goal/2939/10 "2017-02-28T01:27:28Z")
Check out my post here: > [@Making a goal integery](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/making-a-goal-integery/2958): > > Here are instructions for how to integery-ize your goals manually. For example, I have an online lesson I want to complete once a week. When I make a Beeminder goal for this, the top of my goalpage looks like this: [image] After making the goal integery, it will look like this: [image] To make this change, simply follow the instructions below: Go to [https://reqbin.com/](https://reqbin.com/) Select PUT from the dropdown. For the url, enter: [https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/USERNAME/goals/GOALNAME.j…](https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/USERNAME/goals/GOALNAME.json?auth_token=YOURAUTHTOKEN)