I just derailed on a couple beeminder goals, in part because I didn’t work
on them enough back on Monday or Tuesday—they didn’t seem particularly
urgent then—but didn’t have time to work on them Wednesday or Thursday.
Had I thought a little bit ahead, looked at my calendar, etc., I certainly
could have realized this on Monday or Tuesday, but I didn’t. I’m wondering
if anyone else has any thoughts on how to make this sort of information
more apparent – e.g. for each goal I want to compute an "real urgency"
based on beeminder’s computed urgency combined with information about my
schedule. I could write a little script to get data from beeminder and
Google Calendar and combine them, and ultimately I may do that, but I just
wondered if anyone else has already considered this and found a solution
that works for them.
if you decide to hack around with google calendar, here’s a
potentially useful script that i use to send myself nightly reminders
of my upcoming schedule for the following day:
i schedule it as a cron job on my server so that every night at 9:30
my phone buzzes and warns me about tomorrow’s appointments.
not exactly what you’re looking for, but i’ve found it useful and it
could easily be combined w/ beeminder.
-j
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Brent Yorgey byorgey@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I just derailed on a couple beeminder goals, in part because I didn’t work
on them enough back on Monday or Tuesday—they didn’t seem particularly
urgent then—but didn’t have time to work on them Wednesday or Thursday.
Had I thought a little bit ahead, looked at my calendar, etc., I certainly
could have realized this on Monday or Tuesday, but I didn’t. I’m wondering
if anyone else has any thoughts on how to make this sort of information more
apparent – e.g. for each goal I want to compute an “real urgency” based on
beeminder’s computed urgency combined with information about my schedule. I
could write a little script to get data from beeminder and Google Calendar
and combine them, and ultimately I may do that, but I just wondered if
anyone else has already considered this and found a solution that works for
them.