As kenoubi said in another thread,
So yeah. There are just so many reminder/todo/productivity apps out there, and they all work a little differently and have different interfaces, and it’s just hard to get the feel for what your workflow would be like with each one without trying it out. My thoughts were basically “wow this sounds interesting and complicated - I’m not really sure how it would work or how to set it up.”
Beeminder is extraordinarily, absurdly flexible. That’s both its strength and its weakness. It’s very far from a one-size-fits-all setup. It takes a lot of trial and error to figure out how you’d want to set it up for each different goal or use case. It has a lot of quirks that you have to hack around depending on your situation.
Beeminding isn’t just using an app - it’s more like a religion or a way of life. Beeminding is a skill with a steep learning curve. At first it’s extremely confusing how all the pieces fit together, but after you try a few different settings and figure out which ones work for you in which situations, you can start to understand how you might use it in any situation.
I see beeminder as more like a programming language than an app. It takes some thinking and planning and coding and a lot of mistakes to figure out how a programming language can solve your problem. Similarly, you have to set up your routine and workflow with beeminder, use a lot of trial and error, and sometimes write some code to “program” it to help you.