Calalarm for Pc

I use my calendar to keep me on track with my life. I need more than Apple's calendar offers. For example, before an appointment I need 4 (variable) alerts: One so I can 'prep' (do I know where I'm going, do I need to bring anything, etc.), a second alert the night before(what time do I need to set alarm to get up), I need 3rd alert for when I need to leave house (I suppose I could use one of the mapping programs for that, but keeping a mapping App open on my iPhone just kills the already weak crap battery in these flaky iPhones) and another that warns me 10 minutes before this (so I can make notes of what I was interrupted from before I go to appt.)...and, of course, an alert for actual time of event. this app has added these two capabilities, multiple alarms and a flexible pre-alert period for each one. I could clutter my calendar with these alerts as separate events, but it's so much cleaner to tie them up as alerts to a single main event. I'd give this app 10 stars for their simple clean addition to Apple's alert mechanism...it makes the calendar an order of magnitude more useful for me.

I would never remember to do anything without this app. I have used it for many years now and nothing out there compares. This is like having Outlook reminders in your phone. I set up "appointments" for everything I need to get done so it will remind me. I can snooze the reminder for how ever long or turn it off once I've completed the item. If it's something that doesn't have a specific deadline but that I just need to get done eventually, I'll set it up as a repeating reminder either daily, weekly, monthly etc so that if I can't get to it right when it beeps at me the first time, I can just turn that reminder off (rather than snoozing it) and I know that I'll be safe because it will remind me again tomorrow at the same time or next week etc. It's basically my to do list with reminders plus all my appointments for places I need to go all in one. Couldn't live without it.

I likely downloaded the 1st edition of this app 6 years ago. I have also tried at least 2 other more expensive calendar apps, but I always come back to this one! Important features: nag alarm; easy to set snooze and appointment move functions so there is minimal interference with what you are doing; multiple customizable reminder, snooze, and move presets; interfaces extremely well with the native calendar so Siri can be used, can set for multiple recurring future events, etc, etc. It has many more features than the native calendar. One wish for the future: a customizable nag feature so you can set the nag interval (1 minute, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, etc) instead of the 2 preset options of either every one minute or every 1 hour. There is virtually never a day that goes by that I haven’t used this app!

SUMMARY: This app is a godsend for me. I’m a VP at a $1B company, so I tend to have a crazy agenda - lots of meetings, constant changes - often by admins / exec assistants. Despite taking daily medication, I still get easily distracted and easily hyper-focus, and this app prevents me from the constant embarrassment of missing meetings / appointments. GOOD: The snooze feature alone is worth its weight in gold. BAD: You MUST open the app after any change in your calendar for this app to reflect the change. So, If you have an admin who regularly makes changes to your calendar, and if they put something on your agenda in say... 15 minutes from now, if I don’t open this app in the next 15 minutes, I won’t get the notification before that meeting. I wish it could update itself in the background. If I knew of a ‘naggy’ calendar app that updated in the background, I would switch. In the meantime this is the best app I’m aware of for my needs. NOTE: We use GSuite (Gmail, Gcalendar, etc for large businesses and enterprises). I also use Google’s calendar app side by side with this one as I find it better for adding / editing individual calendar entries. Then the second step is to open this app to ensure the changes are reflected. DEV TEAM: please reach out via App Store if I can help.