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I like it, really. I just want to give you some feedback from my experience. When I was a lot younger, I used to keep track of a lot data points to reach goals. It usually worked well. but at some point I stopped because most of these goals were not critical and the time spent tracking them would have been better invested doing those things. (But all of this was with pen and paper).

What I'd like would be to know that such a service would be in autopilot mode and how it take care of itself (ideally in a short video) before I sign up,

Hope it helps !!

Yeah, I personally really love the graphs that I don't have to manually enter data for, like my weight (we integrate with the Withings scale) or any time-based goal [http://tagti.me] or pushups (sort of, thanks to an Android app that Bethany wrote [1]).

Thanks so much for the feedback!

[1] It counts pushups by touching your nose to your phone. You still have to enter on Beeminder but it's an odometer-style goal so no need to enter every day. It would actually be pretty easy to connect it to Beeminder so no data entry is needed at all, if there's demand for that...

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