Discreet Reminder Tool
I had been looking for a tool that could remind me to do reality checks repeatedly throughout the day. Also, I wanted it to remind me to look away from the monitor every now and then, to save my eyes. I tried Workrave which is actually really neat, but I found it to be too obtrusive. Also, I use the clock in Yahoo Widgets to remind me to do back exercises which I do once a day, but I wouldn’t want that to pop once every hour or so either. Searching del.icio.us, I found a vast number of reminder tools, but most of them were web2.0 things (this one: remember the milk is quite cool) which didn’t suit my needs.
So I made one myself, and I have been quite happy with it. Try it out.
February 8th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
[…] Second night: Throughout the entire day I did a lot of reality checks. I spend a few hours in front of my laptop, which is the time where I often forget to do my checks. So I used my brothers new program discreet reminder, to keep me reminded. […]
March 20th, 2007 at 4:03 am
[…] I came across Discreet Reminder today, which is a small little program that performs the basic function of reminding you to perform reality checks while you’re on the computer. It may only perform the basic function, but it does the job well. It also lives up to its name, by flashing and playing a sound that you choose. You can disable that if you wish. It can be as “discreet” as you want. You also can edit how often it flashes and which sound it uses, as well as the message it displays on mouse over. This is accomplished by editing the .xml file with it. While this is sort of an odd way of doing things, it works. I’d recommend this to anybody who is having trouble with reality checks, especially if you’re on a computer a lot. […]
March 21st, 2007 at 7:14 am
Thanks for letting me know about the new version. That was really my only qualm with discreet reminder, it is basically my perfect reality check reminder at this point.
Great job!
-Hatter
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Nice little app, thanks. I’ve been looking for something simple which will remind me to take eye breaks every 10 minutes, this is perfect. All of the other apps I’ve seen are far too obtrusive.