While I have a big calendar book and a smaller one in my purse, I need a more constant reminder of my medical appointments. What I do now is write them with day, date, time, doctor's name and phone number on a sheet of paper and tape it to side of computer near the front edge. I rewrite the list as necessary. They could also be written on a dry erase board attached to front or side of refrigerator.
Since I'm visually impaired and can no longer use a paper-and-ink Day Planner, I rely heavily on my MS Outlook Calendar. Everything that absolutely has to be done in an exact timeframe goes in there, including phone calls. I begin with the timeframe. Then I use the purpose of the reminder in the Subject line, and put any important info in the Notes. That includes the phone number, account number if it's a bill, and anything else pertaining to that reminder. I've discovered through trial and error, reminders can be set in MS Outlook Calendar up to two weeks out, and there's a "snooze" feature for more than one reminder. Since I work from home and I'm usually in front of my computer pretty much all day, this works best for me.
Thank you all for your suggestions. Eventually I may try some of them. My main problem is I cannot afford a lot of stuff being on soc. sec. The only reason I have this computer is because of check I got after an accident 5 years ago. I am not to much with the 20/21 centuries. My daughter is paying for the cell phone I use. It took me 3 years to get brave enough to try to learn texting. I told her she is forcing me into the 21st century when she gave me a dvd player for Christmas. I barely know how to work it, just watch a movie, that's it.
I am in total agreement with Bobbie. I got a Verizon cell phone back in 2008 and stated placing all of my appointments, scheduled T.V. movies (who need TiVo), and To Do lists in the calendar. Do not know how I ever managed without that phone. Before the cellular phone, I was constantly making daily, weekly, and monthly lists. I even had an index list and/or Table of Contents FOR my lists, but it got to be too much of a hassle. Too many lists to keep track of and too much paper. God forbid that I lose or misplace a list. If that happened my entire day was totally screwed. Absolutely love the cell phone feature and highly recommend it!
Go to this website and you can download this great program for free. It is called stickies and it places a little pop up stickie on your computer to remind you of things http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/download.html
Bobbi's idea is even better than the Yahoo calendar I use. From now on I'll use both. I've been using my cell phone as an alarm to wake my son but I hadn't thought of using it for appoints. Thanks Bobbi
I list all my appointments and reminders in my Yahoo calendar. The calendar is on my home page and I can see every appointment every day when I login. When adding the appointment or reminder I also list my e-mail address and it sends me an alert using the time frame I have entered. Anytime I've used sticky notes I loose them.
There is a free program called Stickies which puts a little yellow sticky on your computer desktop. I write appointments and other important info on it, it's a great help. Pat
My cell phone has a calendar feature that will ring for a reminder. I put EVERYTHING in that thing! You program the appointment, set the day and the time and how long ahead of time that you'd like to be reminded. VOILA! I love it! I would DIE if I lost my phone!
When I make an appointment, I just write it down with a dry wipe marker directly on the stove or microwave. I keep an old chalk board eraser handy for erasing the note.
Make sure that if you write on a plastic part of anything, that you don't use permanent marker. If such an accident does occur, write over the marks with the same marker and wipe immediately. Usually it will come off. Porcelain isn't such a problem, and difficult marks will come off easily with alcohol.
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My memory and I have trouble keeping up with each other, especially regarding appointments, and other important dates.
My Solution: Since I have a yahoo email which I check everyday, I use the calendar feature to remind me of appointments, birthdays, anniversaries, library due dates, etc. I set it to send me a reminder twice: 1 hr before and either 1 day or 1 week before the event. I also enter it in my cell phone calendar and it also beeps me a reminder. I have yet to miss an important event since I started doing this one year ago.
By BK from Milpitas, CA
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I like to send myself e-cards: I can have them arrive any day I wish, and I enjoy seeing again a card I liked enough to send back to myself. When I use Care2 ecards, I also get to do my little bit for the environment! (01/05/2009)
Tips for keeping track of appointments and things you need to do. Post your ideas.
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I keep an extra sheet of paper in the front of my purse calendar to note down future appointments, even when they are with myself. I write down when the next batch of cleaning will be ready to pick up at the dry cleaners or anything else that requires me to remember something for the days in the future. Life is too hectic to try to remember it all without some notes!(06/24/2005)
By ronsan
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I have 3 kids under 7 and with my husband and myself that makes for a lot of appointments.I bought a cheap white board calender and dry erase markers. I then got some of those magnets that you just peel the backing off of and stuck them to the back of the calender. The days are already marked so all I have to write are the names and appt. times. I put it on the freezer door and that way I have to look at it every time I open the door to the fridge.(Which is often) (06/25/2005)
I keep a calendar and write in our appointments, classes and such in the squares. I try to remember to look at that at least once a day. I also take the appointment cards and keep in a little clip sort of thing on the counter and check that from time to time. Another thing I do is send emails to myself! That helps me a lot since I am at the computer daily. I can read a reminder email that I sent to myself! (01/27/2006)
