The uncle button is quite useful for getting goals off your dash that aren’t immediately relevant because you’re not able to fulfill your end of the commitment contract you had set with yourself.
A reverse uncle button for completed goals I think would also be useful as well.
As a user, I would want to press the “Job’s done!” button after my culminative (or otherwise) datapoints are sufficient to meet the goal criteria to archive the goal from my dashboard because it is no longer relevant.
Let’s take this one step further. How would the below user story sound?
As a user, I would want to press the, “Archive now!” button when I have more than seven days of buffer available on my goal and I want to archive my commitment contract now as the goal is no longer relevant.
Yes! Previously, it was possible to imitate this with ratcheting, but then ratcheting was revamped several years ago, and now we just have to wait out the countdown to archiving, even if the goal just stands in the way all these days and adds visual clutter to the goals list.
I have this problem a lot! My solution is to just set the rate to 0 and begin the archive process, which puts it at the bottom of my goals list. Still a minor paper cut and I’d love to see a cleaner way to deal with it!
I successfully used that tutorial in the past, but when I tried it just last week it didn’t work for me… possibly because I missed a step, or maybe things have changed once again. Regardless, I would be a big fan of a “goal is done now” button. I’m not going to somehow undo completed chapters in the next two weeks, there’s no reason for me to keep looking at it on my list.
Users could use this to potentially break out of commitment contracts by providing an easier out for adding fake data. If that is a concern, perhaps you need to have at least a infinibee subscription to use this feature?
Note that negative datapoints may be valid for some goals. This means that even goals that appear “completed” (that is, the current total is over the goal threshold) might actually still be a real commitment until the goal date is reached.
For better or for worse, what I always do is add like 1000 points or some other large number of fake data when I reach this point, and then turn off auto-ratcheting, so I won’t get charged and don’t have to think about it anymore (because it’s done, e.g. job prep after I got the job)
Which works well, but has the effect of not making the archived goal easy to screenshot if I wanted to share it to show my progress over time (and I can’t modify how the archived goal is displayed without unarchiving / rearchiving and dealing with something similar again), because then my progress line will look pretty flat and then a giant vertical line at the end lol
Exactly. While I can see how this looks like it might hurt the core business of beeminder a little bit, in actuality it (could) help users be less annoyed and keep them from entering fake data to close out a (completed) goal.