# Request: Easy way to schedule a break for multiple goals simultaneously **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugabee\ **Created:** [February 14, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/request-easy-way-to-schedule-a-break-for-multiple-goals-simultaneously/4953 "2019-02-14T13:03:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/request-easy-way-to-schedule-a-break-for-multiple-goals-simultaneously/4953/14 "2019-02-17T18:43:20Z")
Yes! This is what I’ve done when I needed breaks. Relevant: > **[The Shirk & Turk Principle](https://blog.beeminder.com/shirknturk/)** > > The tagline for Amazon Mechanical Turk is “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”. As in, faking your AI by using humans. Mechanical Turk is named after the contraption in the title image, which was a seeming chess-playing automaton from the late 1700s... Also, the inability to changing settings for multiple goals at once came up as #2 in the annoyingness poll: > [@February's Annoyingness Straw Poll](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/februarys-annoyingness-straw-poll/2995): > > We [did this in January](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/annoyingness-straw-poll-results/2857) and it was super helpful so we’re doing it again! Vote for as many as you like – whatever you think we should prioritize. And the one that ends up with the most votes we plan to drop everything and make so! (Ok, @bee says I can’t quite promise that – some of these are easier said than done – but it will strongly influence us!) [poll](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/februarys-annoyingness-straw-poll/2995/1) UPDATE: Here’s the status on those a couple years later: FIXED: Graphs taking too long to generate sometimes Difficulty of changing settings… I definitely think it’s beeminder’s most annoying problem after the lack of YBHP. The objections to it can be addressed by making the interface say something like “select goals and change a setting in the selected goals,” thus requiring the user to think about which goals to select and what settings to change, rather than something like “take a break” which admittedly oversimplifies things. But like @drtall says, after YBHP is implemented, this will all be easy to automate. Yay! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/request-easy-way-to-schedule-a-break-for-multiple-goals-simultaneously/4953)._