I’ve promised.ĭraft is an online document processor, a web app with the stated goal of doing for writers - at least - what code version control does for developers. It’s cleaning up my act.īesides, I have some True Fans out there. It feels like starting over again-but it’s not. As I do this, I’ll adjust the activities (websites, apps, etc.) which are allocated to each category-on a daily basis at first, until they’re mostly right again. If it looks like I might derail, I’ll scale back the writing hours goal further, until I can succeed-and then start increasing it again. Writing hours will cut back drastically to 3.5 hours per week (included in the business hours goal) to make it easier to get started again. Business hours will retain a goal of 22 hours per week.
So I’m splitting “writing” into two goals-“Writing” and “Business_Hours”. That information is valuable, but it’s not writing time. I started broadening what I had RescueTime consider “writing” back in October when I started the publishing push for The Bully Trap. Flat-out nags me…īUT-I’ve realised that I’ve stopped tracking only activities directly related to writing (Scrivener use, iThoughts use, Wikipedia (maybe), Evernote in my Writing notebook (maybe)). (Prove me wrong, Keith! Please!) Still, tracking word count in Beeminder is pretty hopeless if I have to have the discipline to do data entry every. While I can track the amount of time I use Scrivener in RescueTime, I consider it highly unlikely that anything more sophisticated than tweeting word count automatically will appear in Scrivener 3.0. Scrivener remains stubbornly unconnected to things like IFTTT and Zapier. I can’t get my word count into Beeminder directly. Lately my word count, to use the old Saturday Night Live line, “really bites the big one.” In fact, all is good except my word count. As long as all I have to do to get data into Beeminder is take readings, wear my fitness tracker, and work on my Mac ( RescueTime), I’m good. Instead, I can look at the tracking in Beeminder and say, “Oh,, have mercy! WTF caused THAT spike?” and do something about it, without doing anything more than actually taking the readings. With these in place, a lot of data entry has gone poof. I’ve stated previously that I know I can’t handle more than three or four-what’s changed?įirst, I’ve gotten myself a Bluetooth blood pressure monitor ( Withings) as well as a WiFi-connected scale (also Withings). It’s worth it to me, just to be able to run more than three goals at once.Īs you can see above, I’ve actually got seven Beeminder goals active. Beeminder has undergone a few changes in the past year-they’ve cut back on their free options (though it’s still usable free-just not as generously as in the past.) As a result, I’ve started a $4/month subscription.
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