# RescueTime Productivity Pulse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [March 21, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-productivity-pulse/619 "2015-03-21T05:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![apolyton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apolyton/32/1965_2.png) [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-productivity-pulse/619/1 "2015-03-21T05:56:29Z")
Is this part of the RT API? I already have hour-based goals from RescuTime, but i’d like to also track the Productivity Pulse during weekdays, as a way to monitor focus on work vs distracting uses. I could monitor distracting time in hours, but i think a ratio metric would provide more insight. On a long 12-hour day, even 2 hours of distractions is fine, on a regular 8-hour day, it’s not… ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-productivity-pulse/619/2 "2015-03-24T15:10:49Z")
I seem to recall some discussion about beeminding a ratio by adding both positive and negative datapoints, and setting a slope related to the desired ratio. A quick search uncovered an old thread on [ratiominding](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/akratics/IGD90PxqAro/wg4sMmy-ecoJ) started by @dreev on the old akratics list. You may be able to use the power of IFTTT to [enter the negative of a datapoint](https://ifttt.com/recipes/272561-beeminder-negator), either directly or with that callback recipe and a spurious goal that receives the positive data value. ---
**Author:** ![apolyton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apolyton/32/1965_2.png) [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-productivity-pulse/619/3 "2015-03-27T04:49:51Z")
I’m missing something. Why would I have negative points? The productivity pulse is 0-100 number. Ideally, the number would be auto-entered via the API or some other way. The beeminder goal would be to keep the average pulse over a certain threshold (e.g. it should handle relaxing on weekends) ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-productivity-pulse/619/4 "2015-03-27T07:59:52Z")
> [@apolyton](#): > > Why would I have negative points? Because negative points are part of the method described in that [akratics thread on ratiominding](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/akratics/IGD90PxqAro/wg4sMmy-ecoJ)… Maybe I should’ve quoted it. There’s loads of replies there, but here’s how it begins: > [@dreev](#): > > Have you ever wanted to beemind a ratio, like being on time to more > than half your meetings? Someone asked how to do that recently and I > didn’t have a good answer but our own @alice had a clever > suggestion: > > Make a Do Less goal for tardiness that has a rate of zero [1] and then > every time you’re late you enter a 1, but every time you’re on time > you enter a -1. (If you want to enforce less than 50% tardiness then > being on time might only be a -.5, ie, you need to be on time twice to > balance being late once.) > > Slightly convoluted but I think it would work. ---
**Author:** ![apolyton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apolyton/32/1965_2.png) [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-productivity-pulse/619/5 "2015-03-28T08:46:17Z")
So this is what I did - Do More goal - Entered the 0-100 number that RT gives as a pulse - Set a goal for the sum of 7 days based on my average for March [https://www.beeminder.com/apolyton/goals/rt-productivity-pulse](https://www.beeminder.com/apolyton/goals/rt-productivity-pulse)