# Is there a way to do this (see post) for \*positive\* questions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [January 17, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-do-this-see-post-for-positive-questions/10758 "2023-01-17T09:18:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grayson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/grayson/32/1336_2.png) [@grayson](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/grayson)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-do-this-see-post-for-positive-questions/10758/1 "2023-01-17T09:18:15Z")
(Sorry for the opaque post title, but I don’t think I can explain what I’m after without lots more words and maybe pictures.) I have several goals that ask me weekly yes-or-no questions. For the ones where a “no” answer is the “good” answer, it was easy to set up the graphs so that I can use Beeminder’s color-coding as a visual clue to how bad things are getting. For example, I set up [my overwhelm goal](https://www.beeminder.com/grayson/overwhelm) as a Do Less with a zero slope, with the bright red line cleverly chosen so that I can track my answers as a trend, rather than a cumulative graph. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/b/bf38beccea84a22d5b449eb029c325540929b03a.png) There isn’t much data here yet, but hopefully you can see that a “no” answer (= 0 data point) keeps me in the green, whereas each “yes” answer (= 1 data point) will bump me up into blue, then orange — a visual clue that things are going in the wrong direction and I’m not doing enough to put out the fire. (There’s also a mechanism to come back down to zero, by entering negative numbers if things are better than they were last week. See the Fine Print screenshot below.) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/1/1c50741e683e5ba0fcbde4fde4fbd86177a5052e.png) So that’s great! But I can’t figure out how to achieve the same behavior for my weekly-yes-or-no goals where “yes” is the “good” answer. I know I can turn off cumulative data points by making the Do More a custom goal, but I don’t think I can get the color-coding to work — because it’s tied to days of safety buffer. If the red line slope is zero, I don’t get colors at all. (If it’s anything else, I get one day of buffer for blue and one for orange. Since I answer these questions once a week, that isn’t a cue I’m using.) It only works for the Do Less version because the color coding is tied to PPRs (even though I have those turned off). Anyhoo: if I’ve managed to make this clear to any of you, please let me know if you know a way I can achieve what I want. (Other than turning my “yes is the good answer” goals into “no is the good answer” goals — I can do that, but I’d really rather be asking the positive question for these specific goals. That is, “am I thriving at work?” rather than “is work sucking?” 🙂 ) Merci for your attention! ---
**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-do-this-see-post-for-positive-questions/10758/2 "2024-01-16T02:16:25Z")
I don’t think you have to reframe the question; just change what ‘yes’ and ‘no’ are: for positive questions, just enter 1 for ‘no’ and 0 for ‘yes’. Or for a more satisfying general formuation: enter ‘0’ if the answer to the question is the desired answer, and answer ‘1’ if the answer is the undesired answer. Edit: I saw the month of this post but didn’t register the year was last year 🤦 January problems, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![grayson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/grayson/32/1336_2.png) [@grayson](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/grayson)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-do-this-see-post-for-positive-questions/10758/3 "2024-01-16T15:40:19Z")
This is an excellent solution! Thanks for posting.