# Help me get back in the sting of things after a long beebreak **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [January 22, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-get-back-in-the-sting-of-things-after-a-long-beebreak/6265 "2020-01-22T09:33:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-get-back-in-the-sting-of-things-after-a-long-beebreak/6265/21 "2020-02-17T05:22:13Z")
@zedmango I like the way you think! 👍 @narthur Then I’d run into the “if I have safety buffer, I’ll use it even if I don’t need it” problem – honestly, I’m not sure how Orange Is The New Red can work for @dreev, since I feel like if I was capable of doing things before their deadline, I wouldn’t need beeminder in the first place! ---
**Author:** ![mufflon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/mufflon/32/2394_2.png) [@mufflon](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mufflon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-get-back-in-the-sting-of-things-after-a-long-beebreak/6265/22 "2020-02-22T00:36:37Z")
The way auto-ratchet messes up breaks right now makes me wonder how anyone can whole-heartedly recommend it. “Oh you just have to turn it off then!” - Yeah thank you, setting breaks was already so ridiculous that I resorted to emailing support (sorry and thank you again). I live basically two lives. Home and consulting. At times I needed up to two breaks a month of up to a week each. There’s no way to schedule ratcheting. So if your system depends on it you’re literally SOL. If you’re a poweruser like I was, remember doing that for 10ish goals on top of actually getting back on track with your life. Yeah thank you. At this stage in my life, I am on a long beebreak, because everything is changing constantly. I am very overwhelmed and beeminder is certainly too opinionated towards a settled lifestyle for me to make it work in any way. Auto-ratchet feels broken to me and I like to think it’s “just not a priority to fix” rather than this actually being a design choice. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-get-back-in-the-sting-of-things-after-a-long-beebreak/6265/23 "2020-02-22T00:44:43Z")
Making sure you’ve seen [beeminder.com/breaks](http://beeminder.com/breaks) – it’s not ready to be announced too widely yet (it’s not even linked from the UI yet) but we’re getting there! And fixing incompatibilities between autoratchet and breaks and weekends-off and restarts is #2 on our list of next things, not counting a few things we’re in the middle of! ---
**Author:** ![mufflon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/mufflon/32/2394_2.png) [@mufflon](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mufflon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-get-back-in-the-sting-of-things-after-a-long-beebreak/6265/24 "2020-02-22T01:18:17Z")
I saw that, yes. Unfortunately that dropped after most of the chaos already transpired. I’m glad to hear that is being worked on, maybe when my life settles down a bit I can return to some awesome features. 🙂 [Previous page](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-get-back-in-the-sting-of-things-after-a-long-beebreak/6265.md?page=1)