# Feature request: store safety buffer

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [November 12, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227 "2014-11-12T04:57:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227/33 "2019-01-30T14:49:47Z")

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> [@nikana](#):
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> 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](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-your-beeminding-with-goal-backpressure/1511):
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> 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](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](http://www.drmaciver.com/2014/07/playing-beeminder-on-hard-mode-by-adding-backpressure)

> [@nikana](#):
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> 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.

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