A quick look over a number of unique, interesting and hassle-free reminder tools to assist you with daily stuff. All free and quite different from the rest.
Probably the best reminder service that can be accessed from any US phone. You simply dial-in JOTT number (1-866-JOTT-123), and as you speak it records your message and sends it over to your email address as text. Messages can be sent to yourself or anyone else.
Highlights include:
Check it out in action in the video below
PingMe is a mixture between online calendar and task manager with a bunch of useful email alert features. PingMe reminders (aka Pings) can be scheduled from your web account and delivered via email or text message. There are a number of different alert settings you can select from, i.e. option to make alerts recurring (daily, weekly, etc.) or set them to ‘pester’ mode where you will be bugged every 10 minutes until you respond to it (stop, postpone for 2 hours, etc.).
Read more: PingMe - eMail and SMS Reminder
WakerUpper | CallTheFuture - Two really simple services to schedule one time calls, such as wake-up calls, event reminders, etc. No registration required.
LetterMeLater brings reminder scheduling to your inbox. Send scheduled emails and set them to be delivered to any desired future date straight from your email window (Outlook, Gmail, …). You can send scheduled emails to yourself or any other email address. If you spend most of the time in front of your email program this is definitely a must-have. Check out full feature list: LetterMeLater - Email Scheduler.
This one lets you set alerts for things you want to be constantly reminded about, ’stop procrastinating’, ‘get back to work’ and so on. The cool part about HassleMe, it emails you at rather random intervals so you never know when to expect it.
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Hi - Thanks for the list. Here´s another one: http://www.birthdayalarm.com which I find very useful for birthdays, anniversaries.. after having set your alarms, you´ll be receiving several emails early enough in advance so you´ll never forget any birthdays again.
Thanks, … I completely forgot about it :-).
Here is another reminder service, http://www.rememberyourstuff.com, because Stuff Happens. It’s free and it is very easy to use and works by sending email reminders.
They all sound fantastic to me!
Rushme’s “birthday alarm” as well…
Guess I’d better get to checking them out! :>)))
~Linda~
These type of tools were very popular in the Web 1.0 days (1999 or so) and it is great to see web 2.0 functionality added into the newer batch of reminder tools.
I’m currently using http://iwantsandy.com/
Very nice — Sandy (your personal assistant) remembers dates and puts them into your calendar (subscribe to it from iCal) and reminds you of dates and to-dos via e-mail, SMS or Twitter. Great!
Nice find.very helpful too
Just want to add that this post kicks ass too. (many!)
Thanks buddy
Just stumbled across this one….YourList.