* Beeminder/Kibotzer
@ 2010-11-15 17:21 Richard Lawrence
2010-11-18 21:37 ` Beeminder/Kibotzer Thomas Renkert
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From: Richard Lawrence @ 2010-11-15 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi all,
I just came across this site, which looks really interesting:
http://beeminder.com/about
They provide a service for tracking progress toward (quanitifiable)
goals, and they show you a graph that includes:
- your actual data
- a trend line/zone for your actual data
- an ideal trend line for progress toward your goal
- an ideal trend zone (the "Yellow brick road")
Seems like a pretty neat tool for dealing with procrastination.
Does anyone use Org to do anything like this? Between Org tables and
calling out to R or Gnuplot (both features I haven't used) it seems like
it shouldn't be too hard to do something similar. I'm curious if others
think this would be a valuable add-on to have around.
Best,
Richard
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* Re: Beeminder/Kibotzer
2010-11-15 17:21 Beeminder/Kibotzer Richard Lawrence
@ 2010-11-18 21:37 ` Thomas Renkert
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From: Thomas Renkert @ 2010-11-18 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence <at> berkeley.edu> writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just came across this site, which looks really interesting:
>
> http://beeminder.com/about
>
> They provide a service for tracking progress toward (quanitifiable)
> goals, and they show you a graph that includes:
>
> - your actual data
> - a trend line/zone for your actual data
> - an ideal trend line for progress toward your goal
> - an ideal trend zone (the "Yellow brick road")
>
> Seems like a pretty neat tool for dealing with procrastination.
>
> Does anyone use Org to do anything like this? Between Org tables and
> calling out to R or Gnuplot (both features I haven't used) it seems like
> it shouldn't be too hard to do something similar. I'm curious if others
> think this would be a valuable add-on to have around.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
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Hi Richard,
thank you for this idea - I have been thinking about doing something similar in
Orgmode for some time. (I made a simple word count table that I fed into gnuplot
to get a nice graph).
But Beeminder indeed seems to be more than just a neat visualization.
Apparently, it can make some guesses about your progress based on very few data
entries. The idea of the "yellow brick road" is great: a simple visual feedback
that tells you whether you are doing fine or should be worried.
The Beeminder/Kibotzer folks have a short demo video online:
http://quantifiedself.com/2010/10/bethany-soule-and-daniel-reeve.php
In this video they talk about an Android app called Timepie
(http://www.androlib.com/android.application.bsoule-timepie-pqxm.aspx) which
they used to collect statistical data at random moments. This should be very
easy to reproduce in Org. I am thinking of a specific capture template which
pops up at a few times per day and stores your input in a separate table.
Timepie would be even easier to use with MobileOrg. Imagemagick and Gnuplot
could plot some graphs based on the table. However, the stochastic algorithm
that Beeminder uses seems to do more than that.
Since I am not a programmer, I cannot really help but simply express my support
for the idea and would like to see more productivity features like that in Org
(which has tremendously increased my productivity already).
- Thomas
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