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jackBeeminder tracks resolutions of any sort.
It's built on the idea that you can precommit to paying a monetary penalty (to charity). I found even mentioning that idea was a bit overkill, and simlpy signing up was a sufficient commitment, but if you want to make a resolution and fear you may simply forget about it it may be useful.
I decided to track my gym-going there as well fitocracy. I've only done it for one week, but it seems a fairly good idea for recording "have I kept this resolution or not" and I intend to try it for any other habits I want to cement.
I found the interface very confusing, though. I expected "I want to do this twice a week" to be really obvious (especially given the cute little bee icon!) but it seemed jargon-y (there were three or four suggested 'get started' but it wasn't obvious to me what the differences were). I have a feeling I may have missed an introductory "get started by doing this" page or something.
It's built on the idea that you can precommit to paying a monetary penalty (to charity). I found even mentioning that idea was a bit overkill, and simlpy signing up was a sufficient commitment, but if you want to make a resolution and fear you may simply forget about it it may be useful.
I decided to track my gym-going there as well fitocracy. I've only done it for one week, but it seems a fairly good idea for recording "have I kept this resolution or not" and I intend to try it for any other habits I want to cement.
I found the interface very confusing, though. I expected "I want to do this twice a week" to be really obvious (especially given the cute little bee icon!) but it seemed jargon-y (there were three or four suggested 'get started' but it wasn't obvious to me what the differences were). I have a feeling I may have missed an introductory "get started by doing this" page or something.
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Date: 2012-12-10 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-10 05:24 pm (UTC)I don't even know if it's public or not: https://www.beeminder.com/jackv/goals/gym
But yes, I think a whole page of lines screaming skywards making people fall to their knees in awe at your productivity and achievement is the intended end result :)
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Date: 2012-12-10 05:46 pm (UTC)Is it letting you offset extra gymming in a week against the next week, then?
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Date: 2012-12-10 05:50 pm (UTC)I think it's default setting is to maintain an average rate of whatever you tell it, so yes. But I intend to stick to my primary criterion of "at least twice a week, except when I'm away", it won't match that exactly, but it should be good enough: extra gym sessions can offset the time over christmas when I'm not here.
Long term, if I see I'm way above the average, I may set a more ambitious target over a year, but I don't want to try rethinking my goals yet.
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Date: 2012-12-10 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-10 09:45 pm (UTC)But no, I'm sure it can do anything I want, just figuring out what I want is the bit I feel I haven't had time to do :)
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Date: 2012-12-10 09:51 pm (UTC)https://www.beeminder.com/andrewducker/goals/pressups
It worked rather well :->
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Date: 2012-12-10 11:36 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think I want to try something like that.
Deconfusing Beeminder
Date: 2012-12-11 10:49 pm (UTC)We're working hard to make it all less confusing. One thing that may help is this how-to video: http://dreev.es/howtobee
And of course we're beeminding the living crap out of Beeminder itself. Here's us committing to an average of 1 user-visible improvement to Beeminder per day: http://beeminder.com/meta/uvi
Re: Deconfusing Beeminder
Date: 2012-12-11 11:13 pm (UTC)I feel a little bad because I've often been in the situation of trying to make something awesome, and feel annoyed if someone quits in three minutes because it didn't just happen to give them instant gratification. But it's also the case that I was extremely busy, so three minutes was about as long as I had to spend :)
I did in fact set up a weekly exercise goal and it did work fine, I was just a little confused by getting started. I think the main problem was that I wanted to start by setting a "do this twice a week" goal, but in fact the site is a lot, lot more valuable for recording actual numeric goals (and I'd unreservedly recommend it for that). But that meant I didn't get why things were the way they were.
Here's us committing to an average of 1 user-visible improvement to Beeminder per day: http://beeminder.com/meta/uvi
LOL, that's awesome.
Re: Deconfusing Beeminder
Date: 2012-12-11 11:31 pm (UTC)Re: Deconfusing Beeminder
Date: 2012-12-12 01:07 pm (UTC)