| For many of us, text messaging changed the way | | | | Some of these online reminder services you can |
| we communicate. As recent as in the start of the | | | | subscribe to are: |
| last decade, people had to rely on having a roll of | | | | - Oh, don't forget... Unlike most online reminder |
| loose change and an available public payphone if ever | | | | services, Oh, don't forget... does not require you to |
| they need to talk to someone while they are on the | | | | register for an account. All you need to do is to type |
| move. If the line is busy or the party being called is | | | | in your number, or the number of the person whom |
| unavailable, then there would be no other choice but | | | | you need to remind of a certain task. This tool is |
| to wait and call again. If the reason behind the phone | | | | very simple and easy to use, but it is not possible to |
| call is urgent, then there is trouble. | | | | make or track down long-term reminders through this |
| With the invention of cellphones, wireless calls and | | | | service. It is works well only if you need daily |
| text messaging, communication became almost | | | | reminders or if you need to remind someone else. |
| instantaneous, eroding such barriers as time and | | | | - PingMe. PingMe is an online service that is meant to |
| distance. Regardless of where you are, you can send | | | | send you reminders or "pings" of what you are |
| a text message to anyone on the planet and | | | | supposed to be doing at the moment. All you need |
| reasonably expect a response wherever that other | | | | to do is to register, create ping events and set it |
| party may be within seconds. | | | | that you get your pings via email, SMS or both. If |
| Of course, that kind of speed and responsiveness | | | | you need to reschedule, you can reply to your SMS |
| depends on whether there is a cell site in the area | | | | pings to fix your schedule and be pinged at a later |
| where the other party is, whether the network is | | | | time. |
| speedy or sluggish, whether the other person has his | | | | - Twitter. Some people find Twitter to be an |
| cellphone with him, or even if his cellphone is on and | | | | annoying way of being bombarded with information |
| its battery fully charged. The point is that the | | | | such as what your friend who lives three states |
| capability that we have to send and receive text | | | | away from you had for lunch. But it also has a useful |
| messages has made communication easy, | | | | Twitter Timer, which makes it possible for you to |
| instantaneous and effortless. It made us available 24 | | | | send reminders to yourself on a pinch through SMS. |
| hours a day, seven days a week, as long as our | | | | - TextMemos. TextMemos markets itself as the |
| cellphones are on, fully charged and paid for regularly. | | | | original SMS reminder service on the Internet. It also |
| This capacity that SMS technology has given us to | | | | does not require its users to register for an account. |
| communicate instantaneously regardless of time and | | | | All you need to do is to enter your mobile phone |
| location has also given us an opportunity to keep our | | | | number of the number of the person you need to |
| lives organized, not to mention to keep us reminded | | | | make reminders to, set the date and time of the |
| of the tasks, assignments and appointments that we | | | | reminder, and then write a 130-character message |
| need to do and attend to. Mobile phone addicts, | | | | about the reminder. |
| rejoice! | | | | - Google Calendar. Google Calendar is a powerful way |
| How is this possible? SMS technology has now | | | | of organizing your tasks and sharing your schedule |
| developed to an extent that it is now possible to | | | | online to those who may want to know where you |
| send text messages using a computer and a | | | | are headed and what you are supposed to be doing. |
| connection to the Internet. Send an SMS using a | | | | If you register your mobile phone number to Google, |
| software client on your computer and the message | | | | you can set it up to send you reminders of tasks |
| will be received by the other party on his cellphone. | | | | and appointments via SMS. |
| The technology and the principles behind this | | | | - Remember The Milk. Remember The Milk is an |
| innovation are also the ones that make sending | | | | online to-do list that lets you enumerate the things |
| reminders via text messaging possible. | | | | that you need to get done, categorize them as you |
| How can you send an SMS reminder to yourself on | | | | see fit, schedule them and then set reminders for |
| your cellphone? There are many websites that | | | | yourself via SMS or email. It can be integrated with |
| provide this service online nowadays. All you need to | | | | your Google Calendar and you can manage it even |
| do is to register with one of these online services, | | | | when you are offline. |
| provide them with the mobile phone number where | | | | - Yahoo! Calendar. Yahoo! Calendar looks a little like |
| you want them to send reminders to, and then | | | | MS Office Outlook in that it has a calendar, an events |
| confirm that the number you have registered is | | | | manager and a task list. You can make recurrent |
| indeed yours by entering a verification code when | | | | reminders, reminders for long-term tasks and events, |
| prompted. | | | | as well as reminders for mundane chores. You can |
| Once you have successfully registered with the | | | | set it up so that your reminders are sent to you via |
| particular online reminder service that you have | | | | email, instant message or SMS. |
| subscribed to, you only need to post an event and | | | | SMS technology has changed the way we |
| set a reminder or an alarm. The website's system will | | | | communicate. It has also given us an opportunity to |
| send you a text message at the time you have set | | | | remember and be reminded of what we should be |
| the alarm to remind you of the event you have | | | | doing on any given time wherever we may be. |
| posted on the service. | | | | |