What kinds of (new?) goals/projects are you planning on doing/Beeminding in 2020?

[marcmarti]

Hope it is not too early. Share your ideas!

[phi]

My master thesis

[adamwolf]

I recently started beeminding the ankification of various non-fiction texts. My next one is Art of Electronics, 3rd Edition. I won’t be ankifying it all, but coming in at over 1200 pages, it’ll be a long haul. (Just because I have a few degrees in engineering doesn’t mean I can always whip out various transistor topologies without a quick review to remind myself… and I’d like to change that.)

[marcmarti]

Cool! Good luck - what are you planning as predictive goals for achieving the first one? Time spent on the project? Pages written?

[phi]

Yes. All of the above.
And I will probably use Trello again like I did (and am still doing) here:

Feature Request: Trello "Whittle down" type goal

I just tried out the trello integration and I love it! Counting the cards in a “done” board is great. You know what would be even greater-er? Counting the cards in the “to do” boards and make that a whittle down type goal! Say you have an ominous deadline upcoming where you need to hand in something and by that time you of course want all your items on your “to do” boards done. But over time you may add more and more todos (which you eventually do) but beeminder does only care about the tota…

I learned a ton from beeminding my current endeavour and I am positive I can apply that to beeminding my master thesis:

How not to beemind a thesis, a post mortem

What this is about This is a continuation from the discussion in https://forum.beeminder.com/t/some-long-standing-bugs-i-would-like-to-see-resolved/ As per the title: Strictly speaking it’s not a thesis, however I sort of turned it into one and people usually don’t know what a master’s project is and even professors occasionally confuse it with the master thesis so let’s go with that for now. It’s also not a post mortem, since the project is not quite done yet. Almost. But not completely. Spe…

Also I might beemind sending a short feedback mail to my professor every week, just telling them what I did. Because being held accountable will hopefully make me stay focused more easily. I have a tendency to get super creative with big projects like that and then I add ridiculous things and go way overboard and it would probably be a good idea to curb that.

[marcmarti]

Talking and having feedback with someone else seems like a really good idea. You could even introduce him to Beeminder and talk about this goal of one report a week (or something similar).

[phi]

@marcmarti

You could even introduce him to Beeminder

Oh I did. He concluded it is too inflexible for his needs.