Marcin โ€˜mborkโ€™ Borkowski about his version of #pomodoro which he calls #tomato: https://mbork.pl/2025-02-01_ketchup.el

Well, it sounds to me that the pomodoro method is not working for him for the same reasons it was not working for me - although I only tried for a brief period of time.

Marcin found some interesting variant. I would have declared this method non-functional for me instead. ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

#PIM #timemanagement #productivity #pomodorotechnique #Beeminder

Marcin Borkowski: 2025-02-01 ketchup.el

I woke up feeling still ๐Ÿ˜ด tired but the morning โ˜€๏ธ sunlight streaming in when I went downstairs was glorious and persuaded me it was a good morning for a ๐Ÿšฒ bike ride after all. Then I hit 5000 miles on my #ebike and ended up writing a long #blog post that's half about my bike and half about using #beeminder ๐Ÿ to commit to doing the things you want to do really and enjoying doing them. #BikeTooter

https://nocto.com/posts/5000-miles/

The View From 5000 Miles

nocto.com - a weblog and booklog

I mention that goal because I have absolutely seen people use Beeminder in a way that's downright abusive to themselves, but it's not inherent to the tool. I use Beeminder for a bunch of healthy habits and work-life balance things. It's what you make of it: for me, the charge makes concrete the cost of deciding between something good for me and what I want to do in the moment. If it still seems worth it, then that's fine. I tend not to view it as punishing myself (though some do).

#Beeminder

Full disclosure: I do work for Beeminder, and I'm their head of support. If you have any questions etc, it'd be easier for me if you could direct them to my support team at support [at] beeminder [dot] com, unless they're anything about how I personally use it.

Which I do, a lot. My favourite goal is the one designed to stop me working too much: https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/clockoff

I have to keep my total number of work hours in a day under that threshold, or I lose more than I gain by it.

#Beeminder

Beeminder

Goal tracking and commitment contracts

Beeminder

Over on Humble Bundle there's a productivity pack featuring Beeminder: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/healthy-habits-toolkit-build-successful-routines-for-life-software

Beeminder is an app where you set goals: if you don't meet them, you get charged. To avoid just changing your goals at the last minute, changes need to be made 7 days ahead.

It isn't for everyone, but if you wanted to give it a try, this could be a pretty good deal. You can get $10 of our "honey money" to use against any charges, and 50% off on purchasing extra honey money.

#Beeminder #HumbleBundle

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I really like the people behind #beeminder and their canny ways to incentivize your own behaviour and this blog post and some recent personal stats-wrangling encouraged me to think about integrating it again: https://blog.beeminder.com/predict
The Theory And Practice Of Predicting One's Own Behavior: Prediction Markets as Commitment Devices

A fun fact about predicting your own behavior, particularly publicly, is that the act of predicting it changes the prediction. โ€œIโ€™m 75% likely to maintain my Duolingo streak all year, but now that Iโ€™ve said so Iโ€™m actually 90% likely, but now that Iโ€™ve said that, โ€ฆโ€ Or what happens when the probability starts very low but you add a wager? Itโ€™s like this self-describing xkcd

Thinking about this right now because I set up one of my #Beeminder goals for this year's total books read (with data grabbed from StoryGraph) right at the start of the year, but I'm adding one for pages and messing about to get it to start from day 1.

I want my pretty graphs!

Here's the books count one: https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/2023reading

Again: the goal set here is not about making myself read some record number of books, it's about helping myself make the time in a way that works for my brain.

Beeminder

Goal tracking and commitment contracts

Beeminder

Inspired by various folks, name 5-7 things that interest you, but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. โ€จโ€ฉThen, boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.

#SFF
#CrimeFiction
#InfectiousDiseases
#rabbits
#FFXIV
#Beeminder
#PopularScience

Okay! I've written a list of mundane resolutions for 2019:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQGwLCYPtH648gKczcPdvG38FVCWKCiWWckqmyz9ypVgJ/resolve.txt

... and set up a #beeminder to make one step every day toward them for all of this year.

https://www.beeminder.com/dannyobrien/improve2019

I don't think I'll be able to achieve all of them (or any of them!), but I feel like I'm at a point in my life when I can make progress with them all, so here I go... #improve2019

๐Ÿค” I wonder if I could tie #Habitica and/or #BeeMinder into the #Amazon #DashButton API so it will automatically reward me for hitting my goals? โš”๏ธ๐Ÿ  ๐Ÿšš๐Ÿ“ฆ๐Ÿ’ธ