Gmzamz’s Beeminder journal

Life
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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

  • Adding a 2 day pre/post-5k break for stravaruntime.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • @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

  • 1 2 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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