I’m giving myself more time on my iphonescreentime goal due to carplay adding to my total. Other than that no derails, new goals or changes.
EDIT: I’m also ratcheting so this is due next Sunday
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I love your use of obsidian to track your derails; I had never thought of having an obsidian note for each of my goals before, but I might copy you! It would be great to get some overview of the patterns of my own derails, and not just an “ahhh life happens” attitude. Thank you for sharing!
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Derails
- Just one, had too much fun playing a video game that I blew past the deadline. woopsies
New Goals, Dialing and Breaks
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Adding a 2 day pre/post-5k break for stravaruntime.
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2x Toggl goals for Scrimba (coding) and Skritter (Chinese). Both set at a mere 5 min a day. It’s primarily to remind my to actually spend time on them
Thoughts
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bedtime has historically been a data only goal. Looking back it seem like the rate is actually just right. I’m pondering switching this into enforcement mode to push me to go to bed earlier. My only concern is that since it’s not ‘live’ it would be too easy to derail without realizing it. Since it only actually gets data once I go to bed, and by then it’s too late.
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@rubygagotoku, I wasn’t actually tracking derails using obsidian, just the various non-legit reasons and if they apply. It’s a really good idea though, so now I am! Thanks for the idea. I use the following dataview query in each of my goal notes to get all the derails mentioned in my journal. I add a dataview inline field to the journal and . After testing with an inline
[date:: <derail date>], it looks like I can natively use that field -
Feel free to yoink : )
TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link AS Note, L.date AS Date, L.text AS Blurb FROM [[]] Flatten file.lists AS L WHERE contains(L.tags, "#Beeminder/derail") WHERE contains(L.outlinks, [[]])
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Derails
- Brush_morning, slacked off too long before it became nighttime
New Goals, Dialing and Breaks
- setting stravaruntime weekends off
Thoughts
- I’m tired…
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Derails
12 bulk derails - super long work days. The first one only had non-legit derails, the second (today’s) will have some legit.
New Goals, Dialing and Breaks
- 2 month break for pretty much all non-essential goals
- 1.5 month break for beemindjournal so I’ll be forced to revisit the rates before being hit with all my goals at once.
Thoughts
- Current events in my life are requiring that I focus all my attention to my work, and I just can’t keep up with both beeminder and work right now
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Derails
- beemindjournal - I didn’t do the math on what day it would’ve fallen on (last Friday) and chose to eat the $10 instead of posting…
New Goals, Dialing and Breaks
- Archived most of my todoist goals. I’ve pretty much moved completely to Obsidian.md, and haven’t figured out how to integrate beeminder with it naturally yet
Thoughts
- My YNAB reconcile and ‘approve transactions’ goals continue to be the most useful things I’m beeminding. Mostly because it’s not an every day thing, and it works great for reminding myself to do it while also providing more incentive than just a biweekly reminder
- Still fairly busy but it has slowed down some
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Derails
- YNAB reconcile - My 2 month break made it a huge lift to finish since it’s not possible to make incremental progress the way I have it set up. Technically, I’m not sure incremental progress is possible, since there’s only two states: not reconciled since DATE and reconciled today, three if you count multiple account having different reconciled dates. I setup a whole week of lead days and still didn’t get everything reconciled : /
New Goals, Dialing and Breaks
- Dialing beemindjournal down to once a month (ish). I just don’t have that much to update right now
- It’s not set up yet, but I installed activity watch on my PC and I’m going to make a goal for it. Likely to be very similar to iphonescreentime and ipadscreentime, just with more granularity since I’m not working around Apple’s restrictions.
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Derails
- YNAB reconcile - again
. At least I cleared out everything from the past two months so going forward it shouldn’t be as much of a problem. Loved finding all the things it incorrectly imported though…
New Goals, Dialing and Breaks
- Reactivated checktodos - obsidian is great but it’s clearly not built for tasks. After two months of on and off usage I’m switching back to Todoist. Only 14k more karma before grandmaster
- Dialed stravaruntime down to 0* - not because I don’t wanna run but because I hated how it keeps causing me to run on my break days and not prompt me on my run days. This is the third(?) time I’ve been annoyed by this so I’m just gonna throw some AI at it and vibe a solution. Open bounty for 10 honey bucks any time after june 9th and every tuesday thereafter to the first person to ping me if I haven’t. It’ll be pretty clear since I’m planning on having it adjust out ~30 days so anything other than a linear red line means I got it working
Thoughts
- I never created a goal for it, but getting a robo-vacuum has let to a noticeably cleaner floor. Not because it vacuumed up dirt, but because I get paranoid and pickup all the misc cat toys on the floor every night lmao. Goes to show that changing your environment can instigate changes too, doesn’t have to be financially motivated
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IT’S ALIIIIIIVE. I made it generic enough that I can just point it at any of my goals, with a neat little html page to manage it. Stores the actual schedule as a formatted string in the fineprint so I don’t need to worry about managing persistent data. I have it setup as a cron job in val.town so I don’t have to worry about managing my own infra
Note: 98% of the code was yolo-ed by AI so we’ll see how it holds up. Given it’s like 200 lines of actual logic I’m not super concerned
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