What it says on the title. I have trouble with ADHD and notice that visualized data appeals to me more than an abstract set of numbers in a table. Ideally I would like to be able to have a zoomed in view of only a week or two and if I go above the YBR, I’ll decided whether to make it steeper or let it say the same if I have commitments in the future that cannot be avoided.
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You can edit the time range under “Terrifyingly Advanced” settings on the goal, but you need to enter an absolute date, not a relative date. So you would need to edit the setting periodically to stop the view from widening.
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Ah. 
That was my understanding of what was possible as well. Just figured I’d ask still. Thank you. 
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As with most things here on the forum, either chime in with your [dis]approval or click the heart on someone’s post. That’s partly how we gauge interest in potential features; in this case, relative date settings for tmin and tmax.
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What @philip said. This is not hard to add but I’m not certain about the priority because truly zoomable graphs are coming later this year.
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Despite the topic, this isn’t actually a question about zooming. It’s orthogonal to client-side graphs, because there’s a distinction between default-viewport and easy-zoom-and-pan.
I have a number of goals that I periodically ratchet forward the x-min and x-max, for which it’d be handy to be able to express them in relative terms and be done with it.
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Ah. Good to know.
[quote=“philip, post:6, topic:557, full:true”]
Despite the topic, this isn’t actually a question about zooming. It’s orthogonal to client-side graphs, because there’s a distinction between default-viewport and easy-zoom-and-pan.
I have a number of goals that I periodically ratchet forward the x-min and x-max, for which it’d be handy to be able to express them in relative terms and be done with it.
[/quote] AMEN (since it’s a Sunday) 
to quote myself 
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bump… @dreev perhaps a candidate for 2016’s feature list?
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@dreev Another bump as it’s past the first anniversary since my original posts 
At 30 goals total, trimming my graphs has become a job on itself…
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For features like this, which could be implemented 100% client side fairly easily, and which the Beeminder team probably hasn’t decided are a bad idea but just doesn’t appear to have time to work on (as evidenced by this still not being fixed 20 months after being reported), has anyone considered writing a browser extension?
It’s painful for me to hear that you’re maintaining this for 30 goals by hand 
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Any more thoughts on a relative x-min? I’d love to just be able to enter -60 in x-min and have it always show the last 60 days in my graphs.
I’m confused about the discussion here of client-side graphs and zooming as a solution, btw. That doesn’t seem to be a thing, at least on the website. Did it never happen or can I just not find it?
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Fifth!! or sixth I guess?
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@dreev Does it count more if I ask for this again after five years?
I’m currently “solving” this with a bash script that mass-updates the settings but most people would not call this is a solution
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I’d be really happy to get the script!
A kind soul has pointed me to @philip’s script here via this topic.
The original version didn’t work for me on macOS with zsh. Here’s a version that does, if it helps anyone.
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Thanks Ozan!
Years ago I looked at changing to zsh and the OSX support wasn’t quite there, now it’s become the official default and I’ve been putting off migrating!
PS: your script seems to be in a private repository
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