Nicky

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.

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Feb 29, 2024 at 10:42amWeb
Show threadNickyFeb 29, 2024

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.

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Show threadNickyFeb 29, 2024

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).

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