Keep a calendar that reminds you
Put an appointment in once and have the phone tell you the day before and an hour before.
The difference between a paper calendar and one on a phone is not the writing. It is that the phone taps you on the shoulder.
The other habit worth building is putting the address into the Where box. A calendar with an address in it can hand the appointment straight to a map, and some phones will even tell you when to leave.
Key points
- Add an event with a reminder the day before and an hour before
- Put the address in Where, so the calendar can hand it to a map
- Set a job to repeat every month and stop thinking about it
- Change one occurrence of a repeating event without changing them all
What to remember
- The alert is the point. An event with no reminder is a note to somebody who is not looking.
- Anything you type into Where becomes pressable. Thirty seconds now saves five minutes on the morning.
- A repeating event is set once and forgotten. That is the point of it.
Try this
Put one repeating thing into your own calendar tonight — trash day, or the meter reading. One that comes round often enough that you will feel it working within a month.
Practice: Keep a calendar that reminds you. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.