You’ll obviously need to add the places as placemarks on the tool first so that it knows what’s on your list of must-visit places. It’ll pop up a notification on your phone alerting you that you are somewhere near that place, provided that it is able to exactly determine your location.

Features

• Get notified when you are near your favorite place.
• Apps for both Android and iPhone available.
• SImilar tools: Remember It App and Getupp.

Check out Near2There @ www.near2there.com/index.aspx (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

ReminderGuru is a free to use web service that reminds you of events. You start using the site by creating an account. To verify your email address, the password of your account is emailed to you. Using the password, you can log in and begin creating a reminder. You can add a reminder title along with a date. You can also specify the exact time for the reminder. You can select the frequency of the reminder; you can select the reminder to be a one-time deal or you can have it recur weekly, monthly, or yearly.

Next you type in your email address and phone number and select how you would like the reminder to be send: through email, text message, or call. After typing a security code you can finalize your reminder. The reminders you set can be managed and deleted by viewing their list.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you set reminders.
• Sends reminders through email, text messages, and call.
• Lets you describe reminder and set specific time for it.
• Lets you set frequency of reminder.

Check out ReminderGuru @ http://reminderguru.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Remind My New Year’s Resolutions is a free to use web service that reminds you of your resolutions throughout the year. All you have to do is visit the service’s homepage and specify 5 New Year’s resolutions. Next you enter your email address where you will be sent reminder emails. The service will send you 5 reminder emails through the year and then one final email on the last day of the year. This way you will be reminded of your resolutions and, in the end, be able to judge how well you stuck with them.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Reminds you of your New Year resolutions.
• Lets you enter 5 resolutions.
• Sends you 5 emails a year.
• Sends a final email at the end of the year to help judge how well you stuck to your resolutions.

Check out “Remind My New Year’s Resolutions” @ http://www.remindmynewyearsresolutions.com (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

Cronote works by allowing the user to schedule e-mail or SMS reminders. From the dashboard you can add contacts, groups, and more. You can also import your contacts from Gmail and Facebook.

Cronote reminders are visualized with a button. These buttons provide enough visual cues to make it stand out; bringing a spark to the receiver while making sure they understand the reminder. Cronote also makes it fun for the user to remember stuff like movies they need to watch, music events they need to go to, and health advocacies they should be aware of.

This app can also be used to increase your website conversion rate by adding remind buttons to your product pages, and landing pages. In the same way that Amazon uses wishlists, The Remind button will help customers be notified in the future if they are interested in your product but are not ready to buy yet. This provides a more streamlined experience to customers.

Cronote will more powerful with an upcoming iPhone app. The SMS service is free for up to 50 Cronote credits. This app is useful for anyone who needs a simple and fun way to remind each other.

Features:

• Send visual reminders to friends and family.
• Available free for up to 50 Cronote credits.
• Cronote minds lets you interact with customers to make a sale.
• iPhone App soon to be available.
• Add grouped contacts to Cronote.
• Edit the reminder button.
• Similar Tools: Ping.me, RemindTron, and Remindd

Check out Cronote @ https://www.cronote.com

As you click on the ‘Taken’ button, your prescription quantity will automatically be updated so you can view at anytime how many pills you have left. You can view historical records of your prescriptions, take pictures of actual prescriptions, email prescription history or simply export it as a data file. You can search a huge FDA drug database to find the medication you are taking and add it to your schedule.

Features:

• Create specific reminders for taking your medicaiton.
• Nine different types of reminders.
• Track your prescription quantity and see historical views.
• Email or export your prescription activity.

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Tentative.ly is a web service that helps you bookmarks events right from their webpages. After you create an account with the service by visiting its homepage, you can start making use of its helpful bookmarklet. Whenever you are on an online event’s webpage, click on the bookmarklet and a bar on top will drop down with fields corresponding to Name, Venue, Address, and Date.

You can click on a field in the bar and highlight the corresponding text on the webpage to have it automatically copied in the field. You can make manual edits too. Clicking on the Save button in the bar bookmarks the events in your Tentative.ly list. When an event is about to come up, you are sent an email reminder.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you easily bookmark events through online event pages.
• Provides a bookmarklet to speed up the process.
• Maintains a list of your upcoming events.
• Sends email reminders.

Check out Tentative.ly @ https://www.tentative.ly (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

SS Birthday Reminder is a free to use web service that lets you mark important events. These events are neatly categorized into Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Events. You can add any type of event with the necessary details and have it appear in the relevant calendar category.

The dates you record in other online calendars can be easily imported to SS Birthday Reminder through their CSV files.

The site also features email alerts, weekly reports, intelligent estimates of event periods and automatic postponement, and the ability to synchronize with the desktop version of SS Birthday Reminder.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you record dates for birthdays, anniversaries, and important events.
• Can import events from other popular online calendars.
• Offers weekly reports and email notifications.
• Similar tools: JibJab Birthday Alerts, RemiMe and PingMe.
• Also read related article: Birthday Alarms, Automated Email Notifications and iCal [Mac Only].

Check out SS Birthday Reminder @ live.ss-birthdayreminder.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Using Remindii is very easy. Just enter the name of the reminder (e.g. anniversary), the date when you would like to be reminded, your email address, and a password for your account. Once you have verified the reminder in your email, then it is all set.

Remindii is a great and simple way to organize upcoming important events, especially those that happen yearly. Since checking email regularly is something most people do often, you can rely on this service for the important dates you would like to be reminded of.

Features:

• Create email reminders for important dates such as birthdays or anniversary.
• Receive reminders yearly between midnight and 3 o’clock in the morning your time.
• Delete reminders.
• Free to use.
• Similar Tools: Textreminders, Laytr, Task.fm, and OhDon’tForget.

Check out Remindii @ www.remindii.com

The tool sits on the system tray and you can quickly alter its options from there. As you see in the screenshot above, it offers various ways to customize the way it fades the screen and the time interval during which it happens.

Features

• Visual break reminder software.
• Fades the screen when it wants you to take a break.
• Windows only.
• Similar tools: Big Stretch Reminder, Focusbooster, Alarm Clock and ReminderFeed.

Check out TimeClue @ www.musetips.com/timeclue.html (via Ghacks By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Remember It App is an iOS application sized at 1.7 MB and is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 4.0 or later. The app uses GPS settings in your device to set location-based alarms. You can set the alarm to ring when you move a certain distance from your present location. This way if you forget anything at a store and leave, the alarm will start ringing soon afterwards; all you have to do then is check what you have forgotten.

Features:

• A user-friendly iOS application.
• Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
• Lets you set location-based alarms.
• Uses the GPS on your device.
• Helps not forget things at stores.
• Similar tool: Getupp.

Remember It App is available for $0.99 from iTunes @ itunes.apple.com/us/app/remember-it-app/id431783647?mt=8&ls=1# (By Umar from TechCityInc)