# Scarabaea's beeminder journal **URL:** \ **Category:** Life\ **Created:** [September 1, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/scarabaeas-beeminder-journal/11894 "2024-09-01T11:43:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![scarabaea](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/scarabaea/32/5475_2.png) [@scarabaea](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/scarabaea)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/scarabaeas-beeminder-journal/11894/14 "2024-09-21T08:43:46Z")
**General impressions** - I am more satisfied with what I accomplished this week, as far as my post-doc project is concerned, at least. The article that I have been doing research for for a couple of months and actively writing since the end of August is finally taking shape, and I am just a couple days away from the first full draft. That I spent a suboptimal amount of time on this project this week and even derailed seems to be a secondary thing. Which just reminds that time input is a valuable proxy but just a proxy, after all. **Derailments** - [work\_and\_study](https://www.beeminder.com/scarabaea/work_and_study) - derailed for half-a-day’s value plus got a one-day respite. It’s okay because I made this conscious decision while very actively making progress on the article draft, and just making myself stare into the screen for longer hours didn’t make much sense. - [gmail\_read](https://www.beeminder.com/scarabaea/gmail_read) - I am finally done with whittling down the backlog I collected over months for both inbox-fewer goals of mine. And on the last day of whittling down the number of read items I realized there’s no way I am removing half of the remaining; I really need them all as read items in my inbox (/sarcasm). It’s probably not the best idea to keep actionable items like ticket and accommodation reservations in the inbox, but that’s a principle I will tackle on a different day. Another conscious derailment. **New goals** - None **Changes to goals** - increased the rate for [bookblog\_wordpress](https://www.beeminder.com/scarabaea/bookblog_wordpress) significantly to be done with the migrating my reviews from goodreads to a blog sooner. Did the rate for several days but that takes about 50 minutes a day. Might still dial it down anytime, as I am not sure about the relative value of migrating sooner. - Some changes related to the ways goal get data. I have been testing @CortTheWart’s [new version of TagTime](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tagtime-in-the-cloud/11863) for PC and started using it for my real goals as well, for a change, as I previously realized that when I am writing a draft on the computer, keeping the phone at hand just for the purpose of answering tagtime pings became counterproductive. But I still had to deal with the fact that Android TagTime sends every ping as a separate datapoint (which would then trigger a webhook and send a datapoint to a consolidated goal), while the new PC version edits the same datapoint for the entire day. So I came up with a piece of code that checks whether the raw goals accepting pings and the consolidated goal are in agreement for a specific date and makes adjustments. - Then I thought, well, what else can I automate, now that I am using API more comfortably (ok, now that I learned how to command ChatGPT to create the code that does what I need). So this morning I wrote some code that populates the three goals that I mentioned I created last week for TBR books. It scrapes the number of books on a Goodreads shelf, so now I don’t need to transfer these numbers manually. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/scarabaeas-beeminder-journal/11894)._