Personal Technology Tips in Plain English
New Year’s Resolutions: Remind Yourself About Them In A Month or Two
Are you ready for a brand new year?
Have you set some resolutions that are practical? ambitious? realistic? simple? productive?
How long is your list of new year’s resolutions anyway? Are you going to be able to remember them all? What if I can call you in a month or two or even next December to remind you about what you’ve committed yourself to right now?
Well, I’m not up for calling you and keeping tabs on your life, but you can yourself (with rminder.com!
I’ve stumbled upon a great site that allows you to schedule calls to yourself (or anyone else) and it will read back to you whatever notes you wish to enter into that call-back-reminder scheduled for the future. So if you want, you can tell rminder.com do call you in 6 months and remind you about your new year’s resolutions that you were so gung-ho about last year
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Or you can schedule reminders for birthdays, anniversaries, appointments (dentist? doctor? vet?), parties, etc. There’s tons of neat ideas on how to use the service. It’s a neat service that basically gives you text-to-speech capabilities over the phone + scheduling the call for the future. You can sync the reminder schedules to calendar systems from various platforms like Google Calendar, Outlook, Basecamp, etc.
Everyone could use at least one or two reminder calls — go ahead and set one up right now. Or do you need a reminder call to do that later today?
Schedule one at rminder.com.
I love tech, gadgets and the web. Hope you pick-up a useful tip or two here today that helps you use technology to your advantage! Better yet, why not share your own expertise in a comment on a post today to help the other readers that land here for answers!