Don’t they usually say what you should do in such a case in the leaflet?
Yep, an “instaderail” feature would be nice in such a case…
I have a lot of goals about things I should do daily, and my way is to set the daily rate to 0.8 and autoratchet them so I have at most 2 days of buffer. This works well for me, but that leeway might be too big for “medical” goals…
(and these two in one post!)
Thanks, @dreev – now you totally made my day and basically erased my previous frustration with Beeminder. Fantastic! 
Agreed. Though they are hardly the winner of the “most terribly named mathematical concept” competition – how about first/second-countable spaces, T-3½ spaces and my personal favorite, weak-* topology (it’s pronounced “weak-star”)?