5 Kick-Ass Reminder Services

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.

Jott

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.

Jott - Leave ToDo Reminders from Phone

Highlights include:

  • Record and assign messages to different categories (expenses, reminders, ToDos, Work, etc.).
  • Communicate with teams and delegate tasks to groups of people.
  • Access Jott from multiple phone numbers (Call 1-866-JOTT-123).
  • and more …

Check it out in action in the video below

PingMe

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.).

PingMe - Email and Text Reminders

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

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.

LetterMeLater - Send Scheduled Emails

HassleMe

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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  • http://www.rushme.de/weblog rushme

    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.

    • http://makeuseof.com Aibek

      Thanks, … I completely forgot about it :-) .

    • http://www.rememberyourstuff.com Chris

      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.

  • http://www.coolonlinetools.com Linda Martin-Peoples

    They all sound fantastic to me!
    Rushme’s “birthday alarm” as well…
    Guess I’d better get to checking them out! :>)))
    ~Linda~

  • http://www.ondemandbeat.com Taylor

    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.

  • http://julianschrader.de Julian Schrader

    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!

  • http://mywebquestforu.blogspot.com mymytri

    Nice find.very helpful too

  • http://techmalaya.com Syahid A.

    Just want to add that this post kicks ass too. (many!)

    • http://makeuseof.com Aibek

      Thanks buddy ;-)

  • http://dwineinsight.blogspot.com/ DWiner

    Just stumbled across this one….YourList.

  • http://alicehive.de alice hive

    I’m wondering if anybody knows a service like WakerUpper for Europe!?

  • BWilson

    I found this site and it has actually saved me $$money$$

    http://www.warrantyelephant.com

    I save all my purchases(TV, DVD, iMac)here and it reminds me when the warranty is expiring and it even stores all my warranty info including a copy of my receipt and warranty docs so I don’t have to look for them.

    awesome idea and it works!!!

  • http://www.remind247.com dan

    Here’s a new site which is working for me

  • dan

    Here’s a new site which is working for me

    http://www.remind247.com

  • http://www.4mymemo.com Nick Koranda

    MeMo is a reminder service which is free to try. It allows you to create reminders with your voice.

  • Brad Roekle

    Yeah MeMo is cool. You just call up and leave your message, then you get a text message of your reminder. It uses real people to process the messages so its real accurate and you can leave the reminder anyway you want.

  • http://www.jenniebot.com David Wang

    Just wanted to add one more to the list: http://www.jenniebot.com. It’s a random reminder service I built to help me think about the important relationships in my life.

  • willemijns

    http://www.willemijns.com/reminden.htm list all of these competitors ;)

  • webstuff

    There is also http://www.onlinereminderking.com. Random free users get upgraded to Pro for free.

  • jp

    There’s also timecave.com, which I’ve been using for about 7 years.