Feature request: store safety buffer

[zedmango]

@nikana

It really goes I’m not really in the orange, but please make me think I’m in the orange. (To me) the whole point is the colors. I know I’ll react to red 95% of the time, so please, even though it’s blue, make it look like red (without the 5% chance that I’ll miss that I’d get by retroratcheting).

Why not set up a secondary goal to keep at least X days buffer in the primary goal? Then that goal would accurately be in the red.

Also see:

Beeminding your beeminding with goal backpressure

Here’s a thing I’ve done that might be of general interest: I wanted to get into a beeminding usage pattern that involved fewer eep days and more of a buffer on my goals, so I created a beeminder goal for doing so. Basic idea: Have a “do less” goal for having goals with less than a week of buffer left, automated by a python script ( https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/backpressure.py)… I’m allowed a rate of 7/week, which means that if I have a single goal which is approac…

And:

http://www.drmaciver.com/2014/07/playing-beeminder-on-hard-mode-by-adding-backpressure

@nikana

Maybe all I’m asking for is a color for a 7-day buffer.

I would love to see some form of user-defined colors.