Use Beeminder goal history in your monthly course planning
Look back at archived goals before planning the next month of learning and commitments.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Archived Goals
Tool to retrieve archived goals for a specified user. use when you need to inspect a user's past archived goals.
Why this helps
Without revisiting past goals, it is harder to carry useful lessons into a new course month.
- Make archived goal history available during monthly planning.
- Use past goals as reflection material before setting new course intentions.
- Replace a memory-dependent review with a recurring prompt.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Beeminder once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation by telling Notis to retrieve archived goals during monthly Canvas course planning.
- 3Pick a Notis schedule trigger and set a monthly cadence.
- 4Choose where Notis should send run reports, then test with one real run.
Questions about this workflow
Does this infer why a goal was archived?
No. It retrieves archived goal information and does not supply missing history or reasons.
Can it create new goals from the review?
No. The allowed actions do not create goals.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Canvas to Beeminder. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Canvas triggers
Beeminder actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Authenticate and Redirect User
Tool to authenticate a user and redirect them to a given url. use when sending a user into the beeminder web ui directly after oauth or token validation.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Charge
Tool to create a new charge for a user. use when billing a user outside of goal pledges; supports dryrun mode.
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Get all goals
Tool to retrieve all goals for a specified user. use when listing a user's active goals.
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Get Archived Goals
Tool to retrieve archived goals for a specified user. use when you need to inspect a user's past archived goals.
New Canvas Discussion Message
Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
Get Beeminder User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a specified beeminder user. use when you need to fetch details like timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authenticating successfully.
New Canvas Discussion Topic
Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.
New Course Created for User
Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.
New Canvas File Upload
Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Canvas and Beeminder, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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