The Reminder Trick
Post from March 1, 2016 (↻ April 24, 2018), filed under Everything Else.
This tool is so powerful and at the same time so trivial to make a routine that I ask everyone who regularly employs it to transcend their disappointment—I’m mentioning it for the people I meet who don’t use it.
Use reminders.
Use reminders not just for meetings and events and, though discouraged by some, tasks, but also for important facts and insights and affirmations.
Use reminders to remind yourself of what you have learned.
Use recurring reminders to keep really important lessons in mind.
Use reminders.
Though any web-based calendar should do, and even if Google had put it on life support, I recommend using Google Calendar. Then, I suggest to think about a simple syntax for recurring reminders like, for example, “[monthly] Review personal goals”, alongside a notation for everything optional (parentheses?), as with “[2weekly] (Trust your impulses)”. (You’ll like the allusions.)
I use reminders this way for years and believe they’re way too helpful not to be used extensively. That’s all.
About the Author
Jens Oliver Meiert is an author and developer (O’Reilly, W3C, ex-Google). He plays with philosophy, art, and adventure. Here on meiert.com he shares and generalizes and exaggerates some of his thoughts and experiences. (Beware: More often than he wants it he’s wrong.)
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