# Thought Experiment: OmniMinder **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [April 19, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/thought-experiment-omniminder/10925 "2023-04-19T17:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/thought-experiment-omniminder/10925/3 "2023-04-19T23:45:23Z")
I like to call this idea “nannybot”. A hypothetical tool that would tell me minute by minute exactly what I should ideally be doing – work-wise, rest-wise, and anything-else-wise. I’ve even sometimes called this the holy grail of Beeminder: > **[New Feature and Veritable Paradigm Shift: Arbitrary Deadlines](https://blog.beeminder.com/deadlines/)** > > A simple-seeming feature is now live: You can set custom deadlines on goals! Until now, you’ve had till midnight every day to make sure you’re safely on Beeminder’s yellow brick road. (Or for non-autodata goals you’ve had a grace period till 3am to... See also: > [@Do you want a nannybot?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/do-you-want-a-nannybot/5717): > > I took a straw poll in a recent daily beemail and the responses were pretty funny/fascinating, seeming to alternate between “oh hell no” and “dear god yes please”. So I thought I’d repeat it here and give people the chance to elaborate on their answers and talk about what the implications are for the long-term future of Beeminder. The background is that I’ve often described, like in “[Between Lion and Ladybird, or Figuring Out What Works](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/between-lion-and-ladybird-or-figuring-out-what-works/1705)”, the holy grail or end state of Beeminder as like a nanny… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/thought-experiment-omniminder/10925)._