# Beeminding commitments/i-wills

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-commitments-i-wills/3483>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [September 16, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-commitments-i-wills/3483 "2017-09-16T03:43:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![electriclouds](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/electriclouds/32/1659_2.png) [@electriclouds](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/electriclouds)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-commitments-i-wills/3483/1 "2017-09-16T03:43:44Z")

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Hello all 🙂

After hearing about beeminding commitments made to others ([The “I Will” System | Beeminder Blog](https://blog.beeminder.com/will/)), I thought it was an awesome idea and tried to find something that would work for me (meaning more automation so I only have to enter in as little data manually as possible!).

Here’s the system I have in place right now. (I’ve completed 6 commitments so far with it.)

1. I have a “Commitments” Trello board where I put all my pending commitments onto a list called Pending.
2. I enter in commitments either through a Trello app, or through a Workflow workflow on my iPhone, which asks me for the commitment and a due date.
3. A powerup called “Butler” is activated on the Trello board, with rules to: (1) Move any completed commitments to a “Completed” list, (2) Give overdue commitments a red label
4. I have a Zapier zap watching for any overdue Trello cards (each card is a commitment). If one becomes overdue, I get a +1 on my do-less Beeminder goal.
5. The do-less Beeminder goal has a rate of 0 missed commitments per day. I have the pledge set to and capped at $5. My intention is to have to pay $5 per missed commitment – an all or nothing kind of goal, rather than the partial success version that Daniel wrote about.

I can’t actually pay $5 per missed commitment in the case where I miss more than one commitment on a single day, but here’s hoping that I won’t actually miss that many commitments!

Another thing I’m doing: Because commitments sound like to-dos to me, I’ve got a second powerup (that requires at least Trello Gold) on my Trello board to let me subscribe to a calendar version of it. So anything with a due date, I can see on my calendar. I’ve recently switched over to Things because it will show me a calendar with my to-dos.

Screenshots below. Although most of the text is hidden 😛

 ![trello](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/4/4a81f8f58a534b9cd72edefb536562bb770f5d64.JPG)  
 ![things](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/7/70785028588a6f7bfdb56c2a398866bb3a4c9efd.JPG)

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**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-commitments-i-wills/3483/2 "2017-09-16T13:45:38Z")

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That looks really slick!