Using the Web!
From the moment I had the initial idea to try and support people making promises, I suspected that the best bet would be to use the internet. The rationale was simple - most people use the internet most days. Even those who are only occasional users of the internet will check their emails quite regularly, perhaps even daily. And that was when the structure for what would become DigiPromise began to form.
I wanted to engage actively with those using the website, rather than just providing a flat platform. I looked at my own usage of the internet at work and at home and it occurred to me that my ability to stick to my pledge to forgo chocolate would have been helped in a major way if I had received a daily reminder about my promise. For this idea to work would require me to type my pledge into a website at the outset and would require me reading the emails I received thereafter.
I suddenly had the basic format for the website - a portal that saw people provide their email addresses in exchange for daily reminders about their promise. But would it work? Would there be the demand for such a website? How would I go about setting it up?
