# New Year's Resolutions: Lock in for 2026

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**Created:** [January 1, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-years-resolutions-lock-in-for-2026/12681 "2026-01-01T13:35:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-years-resolutions-lock-in-for-2026/12681/5 "2026-01-01T16:12:13Z")

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> [@scarabaea](#):
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> (And this creates a loophole of how quickly the books should be processed and accounted for after acquisition for this not to be cheating by not entering the pages into the database. I think within 24 hours should be reasonable - unless it’s a “read now” for a limited time or a library item for which my turn came, so I have to grab asap but am too busy to immediately add all the tags by which the code pulls the titles from goodreads etc. - then by the end of the week should be okay. @shanaqui I remember you had some really good thoughts on a similar matter - was it in your journaling thread? IIRC, it involved accountability to your partner? I am thinking of how to avoid a slippery slope here.)

I did have a whole deliberation about this for my to-be-read goal and 2025books. Let’s see if I can find that… [here we go](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaqui-s-beeminder-journal-2025/12102/28)! Me and my wife worked it out, and here’s what we came to:

> Books are removed from the count on the day they are started.
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> Books are added to the count on the day they are catalogued and added to my StoryGraph TBR list, unless this is unreasonably delayed:
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> - If the cataloguing is more than five days after the buying, and would have derailed me, then the datapoint should be backdated and a derailment should be forced, unless the circumstances were exceptional (such as an exam, unexpected trip, etc).
> - If I started reading any of the new books without cataloguing all of them, the data should be backdated to the day I started reading them. Exceptional circumstances also apply in this case.
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> Fine print written with and approved by Lisa, on 1st June 2025.

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