# Every x days instead of weekly / daily?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/every-x-days-instead-of-weekly-daily/4150>\
**Category:** Newbee\
**Created:** [July 27, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/every-x-days-instead-of-weekly-daily/4150 "2018-07-27T13:10:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gallade1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/0ea827/32.png) [@gallade1](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gallade1)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/every-x-days-instead-of-weekly-daily/4150/1 "2018-07-27T13:10:55Z")

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Hi, I’m obviously new to beeminder, since I’m posting in “Newbee”.

Is there a way of graphing every 2 days instead of weekly or daily? I’d like a goal of running every 2 days.

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**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/every-x-days-instead-of-weekly-daily/4150/2 "2018-07-27T13:23:59Z")

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Welcome! Beeminder is a pretty awesome tool, and I’d love to help you get past any hurdles (running pun #1!) getting started with it.

The way Beeminder handles this, in general, is to have a Do More goal with a daily rate of 0.5 or a weekly rate of 3.5. You would enter 1 to a goal if you went on a run.

If you _start_ a goal with this, it will generally make you go do a run right away, since Beeminder, in general, assumes your goals are things you can do a little bit of. Think like… if you wanted to Beemind _miles run_ versus _times you went on a run_. The easy solution to this is to have the goal start with a little extra safety buffer, so it says you don’t need to start a run for a few days. Then, you go on a run, enter 1, and you’re now “on track” (zing!)

Beeminder, in general, cares much more about your _average rate_ than the specific-right-now rate, so this setup would let you go on a run every day for a week, and then take a week off. If this is not what you want, I still suggest trying it–it works pretty well for a lot of people.

You can eliminate extra safety buffer using the commitment tab, if you think you have built up too much and you want some extra pressure.

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**Author:** ![gallade1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/0ea827/32.png) [@gallade1](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gallade1)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/every-x-days-instead-of-weekly-daily/4150/3 "2018-07-27T15:29:53Z")

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Thanks a bunch! I did not realize you could just type in decimal numbers.