Clare's Beeminder Journal

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I finished Braiding Sweetgrass (wonderful book, highly recommended)

I got this gifted as a paperback years ago and never even looked into it. I am going to start reading it.

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It’s weird how it actually turned blue and then orange, and then gave me a warning that it was a beemergency, but I think I’ve seen that happen before so I guess it’s just how completed goals work?

Yeah, I think that’s how it works. Nicky posted a while ago how to archive such goals early before they turn orange or red, but it requires the graph editor and is not super straightforward.

Tutorial: how Nicky ends completed goals early (if there's enough buffer)

Hi! I’ve promised a tutorial on this before, I think, and I’ve definitely promised it today. The standard use-case for me with my reading goals is that I have a set total to reach (the last page of the book) and a set pace (5 pages/day)… which I actually expect to exceed frequently. Sometimes I exceed it by a lot, and finish a book long before the actual slope of the graph reaches the end-total. Example: [image] Now I want to archive this goal so it won’t get in my way all the time when I w…