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Reminders (or 'don't like post-its')
SteveC | Jan 12 2007
Does anyone have any suggestions for replacing the post-it stuck to the monitor for reminding you of something? My specific issue is that my boss has asked me to put summaries on my audit reports to him. I suppose I average about one such report a week, but they're erratic. The form we have to complete doesn't mention summaries (there's a comment box where I'm supposed to put them, but it's called something else). The software we have to use is very clumsy (it doesn't help that our workflow doesn't match the underlying assumptions of the software), so it's not just a case of 'remembering'. I used to have a post it note on the terminal, but it looked messy and kept falling off. Any suggestions? Steve 14 Comments
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 Put the post-it where it is neededSubmitted by krackeman on January 12, 2007 - 1:39pm.
My first thought is that, much like a context list, you want your reminder to come when it is needed. Is the form an analog form? If so, put a big post-it on the folder, or one on each blank form you have, or big sharpie letters on the folder ... Since the reports are erratic, I don't think any time activated pop-up would work. Or, I just had another idea: you could write a batch script (in windows) that would open the file needed, but also launch a message box that said "Remember the Summary!" If you are tied in to their interface and can not relabel or rename anything ... geez, I dunno. If it were me, I would probably set a pop-up reminder in Outlook or using some other method that went off every hour or two. It would start to annoy me by noon on the first day and I would probably have it ingrained in me by day 2 or 3 ... but that's me and my psychotic tendencies. » POSTED IN:
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