# Notifications are a pain.

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/notifications-are-a-pain/10532>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [September 8, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/notifications-are-a-pain/10532 "2022-09-08T23:44:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 9, 2022, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/notifications-are-a-pain/10532/4 "2022-09-09T09:27:11Z")

</div>

> [@dreev](#):
>
> My main strategy as a user is keeping my dashboard open and in view all day long until I have everything out of the red.

My strategy is very similar: I _always_ have my dashboard open in a tab that I visit often (I can trust myself to do this, but if I couldn’t I’d throw it up on my second screen). Then every day I “touch” everything, even if that’s just to decide I don’t need to _do_ anything with it, and once I’ve decided, I send it to the bottom using [zzq’s browser extension](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/my-beeminder-browser-extension/6648/11).

Every day’s goal is to do all of that before 7pm to satisfy my [stopbyseven](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/stopbyseven) goal, whiiiich should actually have a deadline of 7:05pm and doesn’t yet, hm, why’s that? Done. And that one should notify me on my watch… done: reminders start at 5pm, to avoid wolf-crying at times I couldn’t possibly have done everything. And it should probably be in the red most of the time, now that I’ve confirmed that the concept actually works for me… also done.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/notifications-are-a-pain/10532)._