Oh, thanks so much for pointing that out! I think that is the default because it’s how my YouTube goal works–I just keep forgetting that fact 
I can go ahead and create that email goal without fear!
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I’m still way behind on my newsletter reading, but the goal is helping. I just made the slope way too easy at first. It’s probably still too easy, but I ratcheted a couple of times and at least I don’t have a huge gap.
Of course, when I go back to work (this shutdown has to end eventually, right?), I don’t think it will be as easy to keep plugging away at the newsletters. So the goal will be more necessary then.
In other news, I came very close to derailing on my walk goal! I got my replacement Oura ring last Wednesday and put in a break on the goal right away. My old ring wasn’t picking up anywhere near all of my movement (apparently it was a battery issue) and I thought I’d be able to keep it on track once I had the new ring working, and then use the break to get back to the 7-day buffer I previously had, but I came down with a mild cold literally the day after I got the new ring. I am sure I could have declared any derail non-legit, since it’s unlikely I would have derailed if the ring was picking up all my movement, but I just really don’t like derailing. I was able to squeeze in just enough movement to keep the day from ending with me in the red, and now I’m in my break and I have a good buffer again. Whew!
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I ratcheted my newsletter goal again a few days ago, and then didn’t read any for a while, and now my goal is in the red and I have to read some! Success, as long as I do actually read a few newsletters today 
I just decided to ratchet my crafting goal (makestuff) as well. Between the furlough and a mystery knitalong I’m doing, I have been putting in a lot more crafting time than usual (though I’m still behind, having started clue 2 yesterday when clue 3 comes out today), so the buffer got huge.
Both of my books goals were on breaks for a couple of weeks, because I finished my library books and both my current ebook and current paper book are ones I preordered, so I don’t have a deadline. But this morning my hold on my next book club read finally came in, so I restarted my ebooks goal. I think I did something wrong in the restart process because the slope looks really shallow and it says I have infinity buffer… OK, I see the issue, I told it my current point is 0 and my goal is 100 but it thinks my current point is the same as it was before the restart, because it’s an odometer goal. But when restarting I can’t see what the old number was. I can now, though in statistics. Now I’ve fixed it and the goal looks wonky again, but wonky in the correct way! 
This does make me think that it will be easier to always have those goals active. I can just set arbitrary goal dates when I don’t have a library or book club due date.
Oh, I also made a separate reading goal for one of my favorite spooky books, which I wanted to reread in October and take my time with, ending on Halloween. The goal worked great for that!
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