For a task I want to do 3 times per week (3/7) - what value do I enter in the field to enter my data daily?
“1” for “I did the thing today”? (as I saw explained in a docs article)
Or “0.43” for “Today I did 3/7 of the week goal” ?
The initial task frequency is set to 3/7. The goal status header shows me thus “+4.3 due in x days or pay x$”
why the confusion:
I created two goals in the same way (I believe). One is to be done 3x/week, and the other one 4x/week. But one status header says “+4.3 due in x days or pay x$” and the other one “+1 due in x days or pay x$”.
No idea how this come about. I had played around with the commitment dial on the first day (trying to figure out what it does, unsuccessfully), can that have anything to do with this?
Please be kind, I have cognitive disabilities and cannot understand/process the graph, and not much math.
Hi! Thanks for letting us know this was confusing – always useful to hear. If you want to do something 3 times a week, you’d normally enter +1 on the days you complete the goal, and nothing on the days you don’t. You’d only enter 3/7 if you actually did 3/7 that day, if it’s a goal you can part-do.
The reason one goal is showing you decimals in the header is likely that you’ve entered data in decimals or changed the goal’s “precision” (in the goal’s settings) – Beeminder infers how precisely you want to be shown what needs to be entered based on the data you’ve added (even if you later delete it), and initially assumes you only want to see whole numbers. You can always change the precision back via the goal’s settings.
That said, it also sounds like the goal maybe isn’t set up right; if it’s set with a rate of 4/7 per day, it shouldn’t be looking for more than +1 in a single day, but you mentioned it shows +4.3 due? In which case, it’d be best to check your rate on that and make sure you haven’t accidentally set it to something higher than you intended.
This was very helpful, thank you. The precision was on 0.01 as I assumed more precision than 1 is needed for a goal input as 4/3. Now the header says +1 due. And you’re right (and sharp ), I had entered one as decimal.
), I had entered one as decimal.