This is a shameless plug for a piece of MacOS X software, but since it's freeware, you don't even have to worry about me having a vested interest in pushing this to your Dashboard.
What it does is deceptively simple: create iCal events (complete with alarms) in the future with minimal keypresses and interface fiddling.
Time units can be toggled to hours or days prior to digit input, by hitting the h or d key first. Beautiful in simplicity.
In fact, before CASE Apps became Gravity Apps, their slogan was:
Their other stuff is nice, too — I'd buy Steel in a blink if it was cross-platform, but I'm still entangled to good ole S3's PasswordWallet, for compatibility reasons.
As a final note, it's worth mentioning what a nice chap Martin Kahr is:
Back in 2006, when Reminder 1.x was still Rem!nder, published by CASE Apps, I had problems getting it to work reliably on my tuned version of Panther (notably using case-sensitive FS), and Martin whipped a custom build overnight that fixed it and got me running up to the 2.0 release (Leopard friendly).
Tip'o'the hat, that's solid freeware support.
Reminder ?
Reminder is a Dashboard Widget that took me some time to find, and which I've been depending on ever since, for everything from cooking to calling people back, to keeping the infamous *just 5 minutes* computer-time warp in check.What it does is deceptively simple: create iCal events (complete with alarms) in the future with minimal keypresses and interface fiddling.
Usage:
Summon Dashboard, and if you — like me — leave Reminder on as your last/default text input, all you need is to type the number of minutes until the event, optionally hit Tab once to edit the name of the alarm, and press Return or Enter before you resume normal activity.Time units can be toggled to hours or days prior to digit input, by hitting the h or d key first. Beautiful in simplicity.
Notes:
This is one of those *basic* tools I'm confident no MovieOS designer could overlook, yet is consistently absent from RealWorld™ vanilla OS distros.In fact, before CASE Apps became Gravity Apps, their slogan was:
Applications that should have been in the box.Spot on.
Their other stuff is nice, too — I'd buy Steel in a blink if it was cross-platform, but I'm still entangled to good ole S3's PasswordWallet, for compatibility reasons.
As a final note, it's worth mentioning what a nice chap Martin Kahr is:
Back in 2006, when Reminder 1.x was still Rem!nder, published by CASE Apps, I had problems getting it to work reliably on my tuned version of Panther (notably using case-sensitive FS), and Martin whipped a custom build overnight that fixed it and got me running up to the 2.0 release (Leopard friendly).
Tip'o'the hat, that's solid freeware support.
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