Beeminder Autodialer

This tool is in beta and may contain bugs. Use at your own risk. If you encounter any bugs that are not documented in the known limitations section below, please report the issue to nathan@taskratchet.com. Thank you!

The Beeminder autodialer will automatically adjust the rate on your goals based on your historical performance.

Instructions

Step 1: Connect the autodialer to your Beeminder account

Enable Autodialer

Step 2: Configure specific goals to use the autodialer

Add one or more of the following tags to the fineprint / description of the goals you wish to autodial:

Tag	Effect
#autodial	Enables autodialing for goal
#autodialMin=1	Enables autodialing and specifies the smallest rate the autodialer will set for the goal, in terms of your goal's current time unit.
#autodialMax=1	Enables autodialing and specifies the largest rate the autodialer will set for the goal, in terms of your goal's current time unit.
#autodialAdd=1	Enables autodialing and specifies an amount to be added to your 30-day average (can be negative).
#autodialTimes=0.5	Enables autodialing and specifies a multiplier to be applied to your 30-day average (can be negative).
#autodialFrom=goal_slug	Enables autodialing and tells the autodialer to use the average rate from a separate goal.
#autodialStrict	Enables autodialing and prevents autodialer from ever making goal easier.

Step 3: Use Beeminder as normal

Once a day at minimum, the autodialer will adjust the rates of your enabled goals to equal your average for the last 30 days.

Or, if you don't feel like waiting, click this button to force the autodialer to run:

Known Issues & Limitations

Not all aggregation methods are supported. Unsupported methods include mode, trimmean, clocky, and skatesum.
The aggregated value of a goal's initial day is considered the starting value of the road and does not otherwise influence dialing.
This tool assumes the akrasia horizon is eight days instead of seven in order to avoid needing to take the user's timezone into account.
Logging into the autodialer in one window will log you out in all other windows.
Goals with an end state defined in terms of end date and end value, leaving end rate undefined, are unsupported and will not be dialed.
Odometer-type goals are unsupported and will not be dialed.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to:

Mary Renaud, Dept. of Treasury at Beeminder, for creating the original autodialer and sharing her invaluable advice during the development of this tool.
Daniel Reeves, co-founder & CEO of Beeminder, for assisting with the specification and development of the tool.
The Beeminder company for permitting code from their codebase to be copied into this project.
Icons8 for providing the favicon.

This open-source tool is maintained by Nathan Arthur and Pine Peak Digital. See also: