I have created a post before about how I use Beeminder to stay on track and write posts. I get a reminder on my iPad when a post is due. I do sometimes still forget or genuinely run out of time to craft and publish a post.
Because the data automatically comes from IFTTT, I can't add a data point from the website or the app. There has been occasions in the past for many reasons that are out of my control, I have published a blank post to add the data point and I don't get fined, however if I have been lazy and procrastinating then I have paid the fine, which sucks to be honest.
Last week I had the Notice that a post was needed by midnight, I had one queued up so I published that and went about my business for the day. However through the day I kept getting reminders about a post was needed by midnight. I had not spotted my email to say that this was offline. The link between IFTTT and Beeminder had broke, so I had published the post and it has not received the update.
I was looking to see if there are other ways, there is always another way and luckily I found this, I didn't want to put up another blank post.
Beeminder has a bot you can email, the details are below, you just need to know the name of the data point. This is easy to see in Beeminder
You email bot@beeminder.com. On the subject line you put in your data point name, so for example
Username/data_point
Then in the body of the email, you can place in this data point
2021 08 17 1 “Post was published but IFTTT offline”
Hope this helps you out, you never know you could always write your own automation to track point in Beeminder.
