# What rate do you have for your daily goals? **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [April 27, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646 "2020-04-27T20:42:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646/1 "2020-04-27T20:42:44Z")
If you have daily goals, what rate are they set to? This is a follow up to [Help me stop the "daily" tasks from taking over everything?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-stop-the-daily-tasks-from-taking-over-everything/6601/) So I’m trying to figure out what rate to set for my daily goals. There are a few different options here. - 1/day - they should be done every day - I’m trying to build up habits here. And some of them are very important to do every day or almost every day (medications might be a good example). But this means I can’t make progress on the buffer and they’ll always be beemergencies. - 0.85/day or so - gotta leave a little room to gain a buffer - 0.85/day or so - taking the long view, the outside view, in the course of a month or so, there will be times when I have other things that are more important, and so realistically, I don’t actually want to do them every day taking all of that into account. - 0.7/day or so - taking both of those things into account I feel like there is a goldilocks-type curve here where a rate that is too high or too low is not going to be very effective - I won’t do the stuff, will derail, will call non-legit, etc. So what rate do you usually set for daily goals, and how do you decide? ---
**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646/2 "2020-04-27T20:51:52Z")
0.9 works for me. Found it by trial and error. ---
**Author:** ![narthur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/narthur/32/5113_2.png) [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646/3 "2020-04-27T22:36:14Z")
I use .9 a lot, too. Though since I pretty much don’t work on my goals unless they’re about to derail, I don’t actually build up that much buffer on most of them. ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646/4 "2020-04-27T22:59:27Z")
There are some other weirder options, too, like 1/8th with max safe days set to 0. This is “do everyday, but get it out of my face after I do it.” I don’t love it, but I leave it around mostly to remember that it exists. I am certain there is a better Beeminder that would make it so I didn’t see these certain daily goals after I’ve done them. Some I want to see graphs and think about, others are just super TODOs. ---
**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646/5 "2020-04-28T07:15:27Z")
I think @narthur wrote a greasemonkey¹ script that turns your dashboard into an agenda, hiding what’s done for the day. ¹ well not greasemonky, something else, but same idea ---
**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646/6 "2020-04-28T07:28:04Z")
> [@adamwolf](#): > > There are some other weirder options, too, like 1/8th with max safe days set to 0. This is “do everyday, but get it out of my face after I do it.” That’s brilliant. I love it - I may start doing that. > [@phi](#): > > greasemonkey¹ script that turns your dashboard into an agenda, hiding what’s done for the day The only problem is that it wouldn’t work on the android app widgets. > [@narthur](#): > > I use .9 a lot, too. Though since I pretty much don’t work on my goals unless they’re about to derail, I don’t actually build up that much buffer on most of them This is the problem I’m having ☹ I’m trying to get the pretty colors 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 to motivate me but that requires that I’m not slow as a snail 🐌 building up buffer! Like 0.9 means it would take a month to go from red to green. Weekends on or off you Niners @phi @narthur ? Weekends off gives you a little more extra room to accumulate buffer. @phi I’m surprised yours isn’t 0.618. ---
**Author:** ![narthur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/narthur/32/5113_2.png) [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646/7 "2020-04-28T09:30:45Z")
The majority of my goals are weekends off. ---
**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-rate-do-you-have-for-your-daily-goals/6646/8 "2020-04-28T09:47:06Z")
> [@zedmango](#): > > The only problem is that it wouldn’t work on the android app widgets. I promise, you won’t have that problem with the iOS app 😉