# Making a goal red before an emergency day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [October 10, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/making-a-goal-red-before-an-emergency-day/2576 "2016-10-10T23:33:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![derecognize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@derecognize](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/derecognize)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/making-a-goal-red-before-an-emergency-day/2576/1 "2016-10-10T23:33:36Z")
I know there is no way of starting Zeno polling before an emergency day, but is there any way of turning it red and bumping it up in the goal list before an emergency day? For some goals I’d like to Beemind, I need more than a day to dispatch them, and the once-a-day email reminders before emergency days aren’t currently sufficient to get me to work on a goal. ---
**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 11, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/making-a-goal-red-before-an-emergency-day/2576/2 "2016-10-11T04:04:53Z")
There is in fact a way to have the reminders start before the emergency day. In the Reminders tab in the goal’s settings you can change the text box from 0 days to however many days of lead time you want. Or did you already try doing that and it’s not working as expected? ---
**Author:** ![derecognize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@derecognize](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/derecognize)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/making-a-goal-red-before-an-emergency-day/2576/3 "2016-10-11T04:55:50Z")
Yes, changing the lead time to \>0 works as expected, but not as hoped: it doesn’t change the goal to red and bump it up the goal list ---
**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 11, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/making-a-goal-red-before-an-emergency-day/2576/4 "2016-10-11T17:07:31Z")
Oh so I think I misunderstood - you said “I know there is no way of starting Zeno polling before an emergency day…” - maybe a typo? But yes, there’s not currently a way to indicate that a goal should go to the red and be higher on the list before its emergency day arrives. I worry that it would be complicated to implement something like this in a way that makes it clear what the behavior is for all cases… it may be possible by converting the goal to custom and adjusting the lane width. Tagging @dreev in case he has other ideas. ---
**Author:** ![derecognize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@derecognize](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/derecognize)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/making-a-goal-red-before-an-emergency-day/2576/5 "2016-10-12T00:07:28Z")
Thanks for checking on this Re the side issue of Zeno polling, no, not a typo, but perhaps a sloppy definition. I read on the forums that “The way it works now is that on non-emergency days, you’ll get one reminder per day at the time you specify. The Zeno-ing only applies to the emergency day.” So, I was thinking of Zeno polling as the type of polling that occurs on emergency days, aka days when the goal is red (which is why I bothered to mention it) [edited out a phone number!] ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/making-a-goal-red-before-an-emergency-day/2576/6 "2016-10-20T22:05:26Z")
Yeah, that’s confusing! Reminders come one per day (for as many lead days as you specify) until the emergency day, then they start zenoing – coming more and more frequently until they’re minutes apart. Or until you dispatch the beemergency. As for making goals red and sorting to the top before the actual emergency day, I don’t think there’s any fancy solution involving road width, which would be a bad long-term solution anyway since we have big plans to overhaul everything related to road width. I think the only solution is something involving the nascent tagging feature: > [@Beeta & Backburner goals](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeta-backburner-goals/2577/4): > > Hello! Beeta is now deployed. But fear not - there’s a way to backburner goals, though it’s slightly different. We added basic tagging, which should allow for not only backburnering but a lot of other goal organization. It’s sort of soft-launched (read: hidden) right now, but if you go to [www.beeminder.com/tags](http://www.beeminder.com/tags) you’ll see a list of your goals. You can add a tag like “backburner” to any goal you like, and then if you append a list of tags to the hash of your dashboard URL - [https://www.beeminder…](https://www.beeminder.com/apb#foo)