How do I set up a goal to reduce unproductive time on RescueTime?

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I have set up a goal to pull in my RescueTime data (just started collecting).

I’m a little confused how specify the parameters of this goal in a way that works with Beeminder’s philosophy of the yellow brick road. Can this goal be done on a day by day basis? Or does this defeat the “yellow brick road” strategy of permitting minor detractions?

What if I wanted to simply make sure my total unproductive hours are less than 1 hour per day? Or x hours per week?

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What I do is aim to have “distracting/very distracting” be below 1 hour a day on average. That would be a Do Less goal for unproductive time, with the rate set to 7 hours/week.

Here’s mine. https://www.beeminder.com/spookane/goals/peril

I also made one for limiting social media, since that was one of my main addictions.

https://www.beeminder.com/spookane/goals/maladie2

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Thanks, did you arbitrarily set the goal date for the end of the year? Is the goal date, practically, when you want beeminder to stop tracking your daily 1 hour maximum? If you want to slowly decrease your social media usage, do you change the weekly rate at a later point?

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Oh, no; I didn’t set that deadline. By default, Beeminder sets the deadline to 1.5 years after the date the goal was created. I created those goals on 2015/06/02, and 548 days later would be 2016/12/01. The deadline can be set to whenever, and can be changed at any time.

And yes! The rate can be changed at any time, and will take effect 7 days after you change it.

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