matkoniecz/beeminder-percentile-feedback

Generates visualisation of that encourages doing work right now. Rather than postponing it to a later part of the day. Generator of percentile feedback image for a Beemider goal.

Generator of percentile feedback image for a Beemider goal.

Lines represent progress during day, with line in a special color showing progress during a current day.

Percentile N means that we are better than N% of previous attempts at a given hour of a day.

The purpose of this addition to beeminder is to encourage doing work now rather than postponing it to a later part of the day.

Percentile feedback

Idea is stolen from Seth Roberts. This image, generated by this program inspired me to start this project.

Percentile feedback graph was described by Nick Winter as

"pleasant, motivating way to graph productivity while I'm working (and can still affect it)."

It shows how current day ranks compares to earlier days, with result displayed as a percentile.

This tool

It is intended to work well for goals that track things like "time spend on X", where it is preferable to encourage early work on a goal during each day.

This script

• downloads Beeminder data
• separates data by a day
• for each day generates cumulative line of hom much time was logged to beeminder

It is using beeminder gem.

Configuration

token.secret file contains personal Beeminder access token. For example if your access token is blabla123 then the file should contain solely blabla123 text.

goal_name.secret contains name of goal that will be processed.

Install

Install dependencies

bundle install