# Documentation of aggregation methods would be nice

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/documentation-of-aggregation-methods-would-be-nice/549>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [February 28, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/documentation-of-aggregation-methods-would-be-nice/549 "2015-02-28T18:44:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/documentation-of-aggregation-methods-would-be-nice/549/14 "2015-03-13T22:58:42Z")

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I just added another aggday setting: `count`. It just counts the number of datapoints each day, ignoring their actual values. I’m beeminding Mark Forster’s productivity system called Final Version and wasn’t sure if I should beemind chains gotten through or total individual tasks. I decided that counting total tasks, with a datapoint for each chain giving the number of tasks in that chain, was the best of both worlds. Then if I change my mind later I can set aggday=count and beemind number of chains instead.

I have no idea if I’ll ever use that but since I came up with a reason to want it in theory I went ahead and added it!

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