# Todoist goals in beeminder **URL:** \ **Category:** uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 27, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/todoist-goals-in-beeminder/1524 "2014-07-27T20:02:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/todoist-goals-in-beeminder/1524/1 "2014-07-27T20:02:12Z")
So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration: > **[Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com!](https://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/5561896-integrate-with-todoist-at-todoist-com)** > > Todoist has awesome recurrent date scheduling options, therefore I can't possibly switch to Trello, but I would love integration of Beeminder with different projects on Todoist. > > Would also be awesome if different tasks could be assigned a different... Me too! So I wrote some. [https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py](https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py). As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it. The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue it generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so the more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised. David – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/todoist-goals-in-beeminder/1524/2 "2014-07-27T20:12:00Z")
Cool! I’m not familiar with Todoist. Would it get me functionality that is like GTBee? I have Android so I can’t use GTBee yet. Thanks, Sean On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David MacIver [david@drmaciver.com](mailto:david@drmaciver.com) wrote: > So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration: > [Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com! – Customer Feedback for Beeminder](http://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/5561896-integrate-with-todoist-at-todoist-com) > > Me too! So I wrote some. > [https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py](https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py). > > As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only > remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured > I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it. > > The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue it > generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so the > more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised. > > David > > – > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/todoist-goals-in-beeminder/1524/3 "2014-07-27T20:30:05Z")
I’m unclear on the exact feature set of GTBee, so I don’t know for sure, but in the sense that todoist is a todo app and this lets you make commitments to it with beeminder, yes that’s like GTBee 🙂 Todoist is pretty great based on my initial experience of it. I started using it so that I could have some good recurring tasks, but it’s a rather solid piece of software and I think I’ll be using it for a lot more todos which is why I wanted a mechanism to help me stick to it. You do have quite a lot of ability to put things off by explicitly changing the date on the task, so it’s less of a firm commitment than I’d expect from GTBee. I don’t know what to do about that. If it proves to be a problem in practice I might write some more integration to the tune of “put things off less”. (Oh it also has an interesting karma system that I may be feeding into beeminder at some point, but for now I wanted something I had more oversight over the inner workings of and overdue tasks is nice and comprehensible) On 27 July 2014 22:12, Sean Fellows [oaks64@gmail.com](mailto:oaks64@gmail.com) wrote: > Cool! I’m not familiar with Todoist. Would it get me functionality that is > like GTBee? I have Android so I can’t use GTBee yet. > > Thanks, > Sean > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David MacIver [david@drmaciver.com](mailto:david@drmaciver.com) > wrote: > > > So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration: > > [Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com! – Customer Feedback for Beeminder](http://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/5561896-integrate-with-todoist-at-todoist-com) > > > > Me too! So I wrote some. > > [https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py](https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py). > > > > As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only > > remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured > > I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it. > > > > The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue > > it generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so > > the more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised. > > > > David > > > > – > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > – > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/todoist-goals-in-beeminder/1524/4 "2014-07-27T20:50:56Z")
OK, so having looked up the details of GTBee, this is similar at the grand scale but differs a lot in detail. In particular this doesn’t let you commit to individual tasks, you’re just committing to not exceeding a certain level of failing to meet due dates on any of your tasks. I have it set to 6 which means that if I consistently leave a task overdue then it will derail, so there’s not a \*huge \*difference. You might be able to get something closer to gtbee by using priorities and having multiple goals, one for each level of importance, but so far I don’t feel the need for that. On 27 July 2014 22:30, David MacIver [david@drmaciver.com](mailto:david@drmaciver.com) wrote: > I’m unclear on the exact feature set of GTBee, so I don’t know for sure, > but in the sense that todoist is a todo app and this lets you make > commitments to it with beeminder, yes that’s like GTBee 🙂 > > Todoist is pretty great based on my initial experience of it. I started > using it so that I could have some good recurring tasks, but it’s a rather > solid piece of software and I think I’ll be using it for a lot more todos > which is why I wanted a mechanism to help me stick to it. > > You do have quite a lot of ability to put things off by explicitly > changing the date on the task, so it’s less of a firm commitment than I’d > expect from GTBee. I don’t know what to do about that. If it proves to be a > problem in practice I might write some more integration to the tune of “put > things off less”. > > (Oh it also has an interesting karma system that I may be feeding into > beeminder at some point, but for now I wanted something I had more > oversight over the inner workings of and overdue tasks is nice and > comprehensible) > > On 27 July 2014 22:12, Sean Fellows [oaks64@gmail.com](mailto:oaks64@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Cool! I’m not familiar with Todoist. Would it get me functionality that > > is like GTBee? I have Android so I can’t use GTBee yet. > > > > Thanks, > > Sean > > > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David MacIver [david@drmaciver.com](mailto:david@drmaciver.com) > > wrote: > > > > > So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration: > > > [Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com! – Customer Feedback for Beeminder](http://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/5561896-integrate-with-todoist-at-todoist-com) > > > > > > Me too! So I wrote some. > > > [https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py](https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py). > > > > > > As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only > > > remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured > > > I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it. > > > > > > The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue > > > it generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so > > > the more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised. > > > > > > David > > > > > > – > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > > an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > > > – > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/todoist-goals-in-beeminder/1524/5 "2014-07-27T20:52:58Z")
Yeah I just took a look at Todoist and I agree that it is different when it comes to aggregation. I think that the non-aggregated nature of GTBee is more what I am looking for. But thanks for pointing me to Todoist, never hurts to see more tools! On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:50 PM, David MacIver [david@drmaciver.com](mailto:david@drmaciver.com) wrote: > OK, so having looked up the details of GTBee, this is similar at the grand > scale but differs a lot in detail. In particular this doesn’t let you > commit to individual tasks, you’re just committing to not exceeding a > certain level of failing to meet due dates on any of your tasks. > > I have it set to 6 which means that if I consistently leave a task overdue > then it will derail, so there’s not a \*huge \*difference. You might be > able to get something closer to gtbee by using priorities and having > multiple goals, one for each level of importance, but so far I don’t feel > the need for that. > > On 27 July 2014 22:30, David MacIver [david@drmaciver.com](mailto:david@drmaciver.com) wrote: > > > I’m unclear on the exact feature set of GTBee, so I don’t know for sure, > > but in the sense that todoist is a todo app and this lets you make > > commitments to it with beeminder, yes that’s like GTBee 🙂 > > > > Todoist is pretty great based on my initial experience of it. I started > > using it so that I could have some good recurring tasks, but it’s a rather > > solid piece of software and I think I’ll be using it for a lot more todos > > which is why I wanted a mechanism to help me stick to it. > > > > You do have quite a lot of ability to put things off by explicitly > > changing the date on the task, so it’s less of a firm commitment than I’d > > expect from GTBee. I don’t know what to do about that. If it proves to be a > > problem in practice I might write some more integration to the tune of “put > > things off less”. > > > > (Oh it also has an interesting karma system that I may be feeding into > > beeminder at some point, but for now I wanted something I had more > > oversight over the inner workings of and overdue tasks is nice and > > comprehensible) > > > > On 27 July 2014 22:12, Sean Fellows [oaks64@gmail.com](mailto:oaks64@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > Cool! I’m not familiar with Todoist. Would it get me functionality that > > > is like GTBee? I have Android so I can’t use GTBee yet. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Sean > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David MacIver [david@drmaciver.com](mailto:david@drmaciver.com) > > > wrote: > > > > > > > So I gather a lot of people seem to want todoist integration: > > > > [Integrate with Todoist at Todoist.com! – Customer Feedback for Beeminder](http://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/5561896-integrate-with-todoist-at-todoist-com) > > > > > > > > Me too! So I wrote some. > > > > [https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py](https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/todoist.py). > > > > > > > > As per usual it’s a slightly hacky python script that is basically only > > > > remotely usable if you’ve got some developer nous (sorry), but I figured > > > > I’d mention it in case anyone else felt the need for it. > > > > > > > > The basic mode of operation is that every day a todoist item is overdue > > > > it generates a datapoint on the todoist goal. This is a “do less” goal, so > > > > the more tasks you have overdue the more you are penalised. > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > – > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > > > an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > > > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > > > > > – > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > > an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > – > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. 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