# Is anybody triangular beeminding these days?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-anybody-triangular-beeminding-these-days/12186>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-anybody-triangular-beeminding-these-days/12186 "2025-01-24T20:06:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![brittany1243](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/brittany1243/32/5420_2.png) [@brittany1243](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/brittany1243)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-anybody-triangular-beeminding-these-days/12186/1 "2025-01-24T20:06:51Z")

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I came across an old blogpost about [triangular beeminding](https://blog.beeminder.com/triangle). I’m curious if anyone is using this technique these days.

As far as use cases, I have a less sweets goal that was motivated by wanting to avoid eating too much ice cream in one sitting. In this case, a triangular metric is more closely aligned with the real goal.

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**Author:** ![lambo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/lambo/32/5451_2.png) [@lambo](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lambo)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-anybody-triangular-beeminding-these-days/12186/2 "2025-01-24T21:44:15Z")

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I was not even aware this was a thing, that is actually a genius idea.

I am now going to try this.

Thanks for sharing.

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**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-anybody-triangular-beeminding-these-days/12186/3 "2025-01-26T16:27:27Z")

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Yeah, same. I honestly had no idea this was an aggregation method, and now I’m going to spend some time figuring out what goal might benefit from it.

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**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-anybody-triangular-beeminding-these-days/12186/4 "2025-01-27T12:10:35Z")

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I remember wanting to apply the triangular formula across days, which of course isn’t an aggregation method. So I manually entered 1 on the first day, 2 for the second day of a streak, etc. Being manual, it didn’t stick.