I’ve been working on a tiny utility to put beemergencies onto a calendar (of your choice) on your iPhone to keep track of beemergencies alongside other time commitments. (Sorry; it’s iOS only at the moment!)
What does it do?
Only one thing right now: it connects to your Beeminder account, downloads your beemergencies, and syncs them to your calendar.
Key features:
Creates calendar events with the deadline as the end time
Shows the pledge amount in the event title so you know what to prioritize
Gives you a partially-customizable, global default event length
Updates the events if you change things like the deadline
Deletes events that aren’t beemergencies anymore
All syncs manually hitting the sync button at the moment. No background syncing yet.
Looking for testers!
I need 5 iOS users willing to test this out via TestFlight and put it through its paces.
Get the beta version of the app free, of course
Help catch any bugs before wider release
You’ll get the official version for free when it does come out
Feel free to ask any questions in this thread.
If you’re interested, please DM me your email address so I can add you to the TestFlight. I’ll send an invite email to the first 5.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help test! Looking forward to your feedback and to finding out what bugs have escaped my testing!
Thank you Mary! I’ve wanted this for so long. [1] Proper calendar integration could be absolutely huge. Previous attempts at this haven’t stuck for me because of wolf-crying problems. If all my beemergencies are automatically put on my calendar, that’s nice at first. But then if I can’t treat it as a checklist then eventually it’s just noise. So I think a core feature – which I see you have! – of calendar integration is removing/marking beemergencies as soon as they’re dispatched.
[1] Not that this helps me yet, being an Android person. But between this and the steady improvements to the Beeminder iOS app (thanks to @theospears) it may be a matter of time before I end up switching.
I think a less destructive synchronization, or perhaps “add/append only” synchronization mode can be interesting to consider.
I use a “day planning” calendar. After the utility creates the calendar items, I move them around in my calendar to block time. If I synchronize after that, my planning gets undone.
I can work around by synchronizing once in the morning, of course. But it’ll be troublesome if it syncs get automated.
(It’s also nice to keep the calendar entries, so I can look get a visual summary of my time at the end of the week, for instance.)
