Hmm, now I'm not sure if auto-ratcheting to 0 days of safety buffer is exactly what I want.
My goals are:
- practice at least 5 minutes of music every day without exception (this is crucial for forming a daily habit)
- average X hours of music practice per week, where ideally X >= 6 but should be dial-able over the months depending on other time commitments (this is crucial for longer-term progress, since 5 minutes a day will hardly get me anywhere)
In the sense of the first goal, every day is an emergency day in Beeminder-speak, although that doesn't really encourage a helpful mental attitude, since while I want to feel a continual sense of urgency to maintain the habit, I don't want to be feeling in a constant panic every day either!
The second goal should kick in if I do the bare minimum 5 mins/day for too many days in a row, creating a genuine emergency if in the last 7 days I've totalled less than X hours of practice.
So as an extreme example, if I did 6 days in a row of 5 mins/day, and then 10 hours in one day, Beeminder should consider that I've hit my goals.
Now the problem here seems to be that Beeminder can only apply one constraint per goal - is that right? If so I expect I'll be receiving some advice "create multiple goals and enter your daily data into both", but that's really ugly. I only want a single graph where I track the data. Or am I missing another way to achieve what I want?