Cristin has been frustrated with my utter lack of memory. Its not that I can't recall things, its that something in my brain doesn't trigger me to think about things in the first place. If someone mentions, "didn't you have to meet someone tonight?", I'll remember that I was supposed to meet X for dinner. If nothing triggers me, I will completely forget until I get a call from X 20 minutes late. I have this problem with meetings at work as well.
A medical solution to this problem eludes me, so I started trying Google Calendar. It's pretty decent - and I know there are potentially better calendars, but at least I can trust that the service will always be accessable, fast, free, etc for some definition of "always". I can't trust a start up for pretty much any definition of "always".
The one really nice feature that makes this the killer app for me in particular is that I can get the calendar to send a text message to me minutes before the meeting/event. This is the trigger - I almost always have my cell phone.
Of course, for this week and next, I'm in dublin ireland and my cell phone has zero service. I've already shown up for one meeting 10 minutes late, so I can see the problems already.
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