My Metaminding Goals
I’m enthusiastic about the new metaminding feature (links below in case you haven’t heard of it). Here’s how I’m using it so far:
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My exercise goal records how many sets of weight-bearing exercises I do every day. It’s metaminded by exercise_meta, which is set to a rate of 13 every fortnight. This encourages me to do at least one set every day, even if I have a safety buffer built up on my main exercise goal. I changed the aggregation method for exercise_meta to be binary (a custom goals feature), so that when I do multiple sets on a single day, I don’t accumulate extra safety buffer on the meta goal.
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Similarly, my aerobic goal for time spent doing cardio exercise is metaminded by aerobic_meta. All of the meta goal’s settings are the same as above except that it’s set to 6 days per week to ease me into doing cardio more often. I’m using the Beeminder Autodialer to gradually increase that to 13 per fortnight (
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This one is a hybrid. I have a journal_beeminder goal to track writing here and also a journal_personal goal for writing in my private journal. The journal_personal goal is a normal Do More except that it’s set up to metamind journal_beeminder, as well as taking its own manual datapoints. That means that on days on which I write a Beeminder Journal entry, I don’t also need to do a personal journal entry. I do not use the binary aggregation method for this, so I can build up extra safety buffer if I do two or more journal entries of either kind each day.
Related Links:
- Beeminder ♥ Beeminder: Introducing the Meta Integration | Beeminder Blog
- Metaminding - what's your use case? (forum thread)
- beeminder push to beeminder, aka rudimentary meta integration, aka disintermediate IFTTT for foo-days goals (forum thread with some technical details)