# How to create discrete, one-time goals?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-create-discrete-one-time-goals/2565>\
**Category:** Newbee\
**Created:** [October 5, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-create-discrete-one-time-goals/2565 "2016-10-05T10:46:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![kivrih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@kivrih](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/kivrih)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-create-discrete-one-time-goals/2565/1 "2016-10-05T10:46:44Z")

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I want to create one-time goals like “analyse my data per friday” or “plant my aunt’s flowers this week”. Is that possible? The “custom” goal option looks promising, but it’s inactive.

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**Author:** ![apb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apb/32/100_2.png) [@apb](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apb)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-create-discrete-one-time-goals/2565/2 "2016-10-05T14:34:15Z")

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This is something of a known problem that Beeminder isn’t great at handling this right now. If there’s a way to make it a recurring goal, that works better - for example, picking one thing each week, or each day, that’s a “must do” and then recording that as your datapoint. See this post for more: [http://blog.beeminder.com/mustdo/](http://blog.beeminder.com/mustdo/)

If that still doesn’t do it, there’s also GTBee, which is admittedly lacking in polish but lets you create a todo list and then uses Beeminder to charge you if you don’t finish things in time:  
[http://blog.beeminder.com/gtbee/](http://blog.beeminder.com/gtbee/)

Hope that helps - good luck, and let us know how it goes and if you have other ideas or feedback!

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**Author:** ![n54843](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@n54843](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/n54843)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-create-discrete-one-time-goals/2565/3 "2016-10-10T12:55:11Z")

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I have a goal that requires me to clear off my external todo list (at [https://www.wunderlist.com/](https://www.wunderlist.com/)) a few times a week. I haven’t been using this setup long, but it’s been working for me.