# GmailZero **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [April 18, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gmailzero/2115 "2016-04-18T18:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![josefb122](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/josefb122/32/1362_2.png) [@josefb122](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/josefb122)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gmailzero/2115/1 "2016-04-18T18:00:45Z")
Hello, I’m using GmailZero to reduce the emails in my inbox to 0. After I get to 0, I want to keep my inbox at 0, but I don’t want to commit on a daily basis. I want to commit to 0 on a weekly basis, so that if I’m busy on a particular day, I can get my inbox to 0 later (for example during the weekend when I have more time). So I want to commit to getting to 0 at least once a week, but not on a particular day (for example, be able to get my inbox to 0 on Monday this week, and on Friday next week). Does anyone know if that is possible, and if so how to do it? Thank you ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gmailzero/2115/2 "2016-04-18T20:51:09Z")
Yet another fine example of a trigger-based goal; i.e. give me a set amount of time to get back into line after an event, in this case, a non-zero day. in this case you have the advantage of getting a stream of datapoints (ideally zeroes) into your gmail goal. If you could send a one to another goal every time that your gmail goal gets a zero, then that second goal could be set to a slope of once per week, and auto-ratcheted to soak up more than seven days of safety-buffer. This might require the use of an as-yet-non-existent IFTTT Macro, like `COMPLEMENT[BINARY[{{Value}}]]` or something. ---
**Author:** ![josefb122](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/josefb122/32/1362_2.png) [@josefb122](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/josefb122)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gmailzero/2115/3 "2016-04-19T05:24:35Z")
That’s a very interesting solution. But I guess it would be too much hassle to do that manually every time? By the way, is there a way to auto-ratchet goals? For example to have no more than one week of safety buffer? ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gmailzero/2115/4 "2016-04-19T05:39:37Z")
We actually have auto-ratchet as a perk of one of our [premium plans](http://beeminder.com/premium). Eager for feedback on whether that feels worth it. (We’re working on a bunch of changes to premium plans right now.) ---
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gmailzero/2115/5 "2016-04-19T16:25:43Z")
> [@dreev](#): > > Eager for feedback on whether that feels worth it. I think it would feel a lot more worth it if it were implemented as more of a first-class feature. Currently (AFAIK) there’s no indication of when it adjusts which goals by what amount. At a minimum it should make an entry in the goal’s data somewhere, and ideally this would be an IFTTT trigger, etc. As it is today, I prefer to manually ratchet so I can know it happened and feel good about it. ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gmailzero/2115/6 "2016-04-21T11:56:31Z")
> [@drtall](#): > > it should make an entry in the goal’s data somewhere Or equivalent in goal’s visible meta-data… in the same spirit that the derailment datapoints aren’t so much datapoints as they are annotations. As regards auto-ratchet, that’s the sole reason that I personally subscribed to Plan Bee.