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Postminder
Postminder is for beeminding your posts to a Discourse forum.
In reality it's just a pretty wrapper around the RSSminder integration, to make it a bit more accessible to the average person. We've discussed the whys and wherefores of adding this on the blog!
What can I beemind with Postminder?
New posts and comments made in a forum! This could be the Beeminder forum, or other fora that run on the Discourse software, which underpins a lot of the modern fora out there!
Once your goal is set up, each time you post to the forum you're tracking, that's +1 for your goal!
- Head to create a new goal (also accessible through the New Goal link in the top menu).
- Click the Postminder icon to start a new goal that picks up posts from a Discourse forum:
- First you need to grab the URL of the forum you want to track. In the case of Beeminder, that's at https://forum.beeminder.com/
Once you've added the URL, type your username in the next box.
If you'd like to create a Beeminder goal to track posts to the Beeminder forum, don't forget that your username on the forum can be different from your Beeminder username, so you can check it if you're not sure by going to the forum, clicking on your profile image in the top right, and selecting the person icon in the dropdown to go to your profile.
Click "Check" to continue. If the name you gave isn't already a valid forum user, an error banner will pop up at the top of the page saying "Error while fetching feed." - If all is well, the goal creation wizard will expand to give you some more options. Choose your rate here to decide how many posts you want to make: if you want to make one post per week, for example, you would set the rate to 1/7 per day.
Lastly, if you want to delay your goal's start a few days (maybe you're traveling this weekend), be sure to tick the Start this goal with extra leeway box. Enter the number of days you want to delay and press Continue. - Give your goal a brief name. If you want, you can also write a short description with more information.
!["Give your goal a name", followed by two text entry boxes. The first allows you to enter a short slug which will name your goal and create a URL for it. The second textbox allows you to set a short description, and is optional.](//d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/593eda072c7d3a0747cdd5b2/images/67e44bbbf1edf7459fddbe4b/file-2fIGmz5DrR.png ""Give your goal a name", followed by two text entry boxes. The first allows you to enter a short slug which will name your goal and create a URL for it. The second textbox allows you to set a short description, and is optional.")
- Finally, choose your initial pledge. This is the amount you will pay the first time you derail on the goal. After derailing, the pledge will increase by default — use the dropdown below to control how high it goes by selecting the cap. In the example below, I have chosen to start at a $5 pledge, which will increase each time I derail, until it reaches $270 — the pledge cap. (To read more about pledges and payments, check out some FAQs!)
If you want to start out with a sort of trial period, you can choose to start the goal at $0. If you do that, the pledge will automatically increase to $5 after seven days. If you derail before that, it will also increase to $5.
- Step through the confirmation scenes and check the preview of your goal. If all sounds good, then that's it!
!["Give your goal a name", followed by two text entry boxes. The first allows you to enter a short slug which will name your goal and create a URL for it. The second textbox allows you to set a short description, and is optional.](https://d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/593eda072c7d3a0747cdd5b2/images/67e44bbbf1edf7459fddbe4b/file-2fIGmz5DrR.png ""Give your goal a name", followed by two text entry boxes. The first allows you to enter a short slug which will name your goal and create a URL for it. The second textbox allows you to set a short description, and is optional.")
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