it would be an interesting option to tighten the time frame for goals more. Right now it is that you edge skate for 1 whole day. what would be if you allow the option to only do a goal between 8:00 and 08:30 am for example. I am always procastinating and couldn’t deal with safety buffers because it was just not habit forming while I was still doing goals last minute. Now with many more goals, especially new ones I am still doing all the goals in the last minute. It would be really amazing to put a structure in your day if you say I can only do this one goal from 08:00-8:30 and a different one from 09:00 to 09:30. This way it would be similiar to last minute goals but somehow different because not many goals are due at 10 am but all structured so you can achieve them until 10 am.
The problem with this would be: less flexibility of course. If my schedule changes I will derail very often. This is why it is only for my specific use case???. My habit forms by just starting a timer on my watch. If I always start the timer on my watch at a specifc time, it would still ok not to do the thing. But if you are at home and don’t have a busy schedule, I will always do the goal because I have built up the habit of always starting a timer on my apple watch at a specific time.
I don’t know how you guys do it but my best beeminder goals that stick for very long times, have a specific time frame when I do them always on the day. I could of course also go for more flexibilty for example a 3 hour time frame when I have to do a goal.
Happy to hear what you think. There are for sure many blog posts about this topic but I have not a beeminder goal of reading beeminders blog post every day yet 
You probably already know that you can change the deadlines for many goal types (just not some of the autodata ones). So you can set the deadline for a goal to be 09:30am, for example. Now that doesn’t quite do what you are after, as you could do the goal at (say) 6am and that would be fine too.
I know for example that @dreev uses this feature to set a spread of goals across the day, each with successively later deadlines. Might something like that work for you?
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Ah, yes, waterfall deadlines:
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