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Don’t forget!March 7th, 2006 by Nick |
We’ve got reminders working. From the event edit window, you can choose to send a reminder for you events. If it’s a repeating event, you’ll get a reminder every time. You can’t set a reminder from the One Box yet.
You can choose to send reminders to your email or your wireless device (via SMS/Text Messaging) - just go to your account settings and pick. While you’re there, check your time zone - it’s required to before you can set up reminders.
Remember we’re in beta, this is a brand new feature, and email/SMS sometimes takes a while. Don’t use these to remind you of your: job interview, heart surgery, or wife’s birthday. If you have problems, let us know if the forum.
30 Boxes!
March 8th, 2006 at 8:37 am
This is great…I have now ditched SunBird and am using this now exclusively because of the reminders. What would be great is if you could set overall reminders to e-mail but override the reminder to SMS on a specific event.
That way if I have a morning event I need to be reminded about I might not see my e-mail reminder till its too late.
Having SMS set up as the all the time reminder mechanism isnt cost effective either to those who pay per SMS message.
The ability to mix the two will make this all the more powerful.
Great Job!
March 8th, 2006 at 9:01 am
AWESOME!! {inputs cell phone number with glee…text message test worked…yeah!}
March 8th, 2006 at 10:32 am
I love reminders! w00!
March 8th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
You guys planning on IM reminders?
March 8th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
We are going to get to IM reminders, but they’re a little ways off.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
How about adding times
March 8th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
How about adding times less than 1 hr? 30 minutes and 15 minutes would be great additions.
March 8th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
This is a major feature I’ve been waiting for, but your pull down doesn’t offer the degree of control I need. I use backpackit’s reminders pretty extensively and it’s important to me to be able to specify times like 10 minutes for a meeting, 25 minutes for a movie 80 minutes for tutoring (because of travel time and I want to be alerted before I leave work).
A text box to enter a duration and pull down box for units might work, or just allow a use to enter something like 20m or 90 min, 1.5h, 4 w could work.
Bonus credit if I could do multiple reminders. I have new very early meeting on Mondays so I send a reminder Sunday night reminding me not to stay out too late and one in the morning. I don’t know reasonable to do something like ‘the day before at 9pm’.
This is one time I like backpackit’s ability to set a reminder without linking to an event, well actually the event is the reminder. Good for sending a reminder to call someone, goto the store, pick up a package etc. Scheduling a whole event is overkill. That may be feature bloat for a calendaring application though.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Any plans to add smaller incriments of time? I’d like to do alerts 15 or 30 minutes prior to the event, if possible. I’m really excited about this, thanks!
March 9th, 2006 at 1:33 am
+1 for shorter times…
and thank you guys so much for adding sms!!
March 9th, 2006 at 10:08 am
I must ask the same question in hopes of a response. Are you guys going to add smaller increments for reminders? 1 hour is to far out for me. I need to be reminded 10-15 minutes in advance most of the time especially for events in the office. I tested my first SMS reminder today for an event at 11am. I received three reminders for my event. One at 9:59am, one at 10am and one at 10:02am. Why did it send me three?
March 9th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
support for cincinnati bell phones would be nice
March 9th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Some answers:
- Cincinnati Bell has been added.
- I added a 30 minute reminder option. Will consider shorter ones after this proves itself.
- As for the three reminders in three minutes…better safe than sorry? I fixed a bug - shouldn’t happen again.
March 10th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Are there plans for any other carriers in the UK? Currently it looks like you only support T-Mobile. I use Orange Mobile (http://www.orange.co.uk) and would love to make use of the SMS reminder service.
March 11th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Orange UK has been added.
March 12th, 2006 at 12:58 am
How about support for US Cellular?
[Narendra: Jeff, can you give us the email format for US Cellular - e.g. 4154443456@uscellular.com ?]
March 12th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
NUMBER@email.uscc.net
March 13th, 2006 at 12:10 am
How about boost mobile?
number@myboostmobile.com
March 13th, 2006 at 12:11 am
Oh and we need a way to a) turn on reminders by default when adding one via the awesome text bar
b) have a quick shortcut for reminders (how about an exclamation point? e.g. “lunch mom’s house 7pm!” sets up a reminder)
[Narendra: We are working on that. We use exclamation point to send an SMS invitation but maybe that would work as well for a reminder. We would have to decide on the appropriate default]
March 13th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
+1 for set overall reminders to e-mail but override the reminder to SMS on a specific event.
March 13th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Multiple votes for time increments like 5 or 10 minutes for me. Multiple votes becuase I am going to switch my whole department to 30boxes as soon as this features is added.
March 15th, 2006 at 10:36 am
I’m here looking for a tag that activates the default reminder as well. Maybe the minus sign, for T minus # minutes.
Dentist 2pm-30m or Dentist -30at2pm
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:06 pm
That exclamation point signifies reminder much more than SMS invitation IMO. I’d love to see that. I would default it to 1 hour before but some preference there makes sense.
March 28th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
I’m with Derek. But I think the character/tag should be something very obscure so that once you get it from Power Tips! you can use it in the One Box. The Tilde (~) instead of the minus because the minus is used in their parsing engine for time frames. Also, I had suggested this before in another question that Narendra politely answered, which is to round to the nearest drop down amount. So ~39 would have a 30 minute reminder. But ~50 would round to 1 hour. Then, in the future if they implement a “flexible” reminding scheme then the One Box parsing will fit the scheme. Say I create a 45 minute reminder, then my ~39 would round up to 45 minutes. Might also be wise to allow a setting to “always round up” or “always round down” or “round to nearest”. I can see why they are thinking about this one. It probably has several layers of complexity plus thinking about the future scalability. Most importantly keeping it simple to use and remember in the One Box - I just love that little box! “Little boxes can do big things too!”
March 31st, 2006 at 7:39 am
me too:
- would like to be able to set reminder using the one line entry (2pm! for default alarm and 2pm!45 for 45 minutes prior feels right)
- would like to set arbitrary minutes value (for now tho, add 5minutes to the drop down list)
Also:
- user config option to have reminders set by default for all new entries
!!thanks
March 31st, 2006 at 10:57 am
Unfortunately the system seems to be trying to send text messages via the email method which isnt the same as sending a regular SMS - for Rogers customers email-to-sms requires an extra monthly subscription fee for instance so a lot of people are missing out.
April 13th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Can you set reminders to be turned on for events that we are invited to? My wife will add an event to her calender, which I share and vice versa, she invites me, and I accept.
She sets a reminder SMS for the event, but I don’t receive the reminder notice. I want to. :)
May 8th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Two questions –
(1) is it possible to set reminders to go to different email addresses (either based on selection or time of day/day of week of when it will be sent)?
(2) since the One Box is such a distinct feature of 30B I would suggest there be a more accessible treatment of how to use it than having to search the FAQ for Ading Events and then having to click forward to “lots of information on this page”. How about a straightforward HELP link?
Overall I’m very impressed with 30B and plan to recommend it widely both among family and academic colleagues.
[Narendra: currently you can only send reminders to one location. We do have a big HELP menu on the top left of the calendar next to VIEW and FIND!]
May 14th, 2006 at 1:01 am
(1) did the feature for adding reminders when adding an event through the text bar ever get added?
(2) any reason why i need to decide to get reminders via email or text? id love both.
(3) is there a way to have reminder default to on when making a new event?