A discussion was raised again today about the usefulness and validity of a location based alarm system. Most alarms that we think of our based on a specific time of day. The challenge with that type of alarm is your location, or context of your day may not have been what you planned for it to have been at that time.

What would really be helpful is to be reminded of something you needed to do when you were at a specific location, regardless of what time it was. For instance, the next time I’m around the corner of 71st and …read more

Does anyone else notice some things that are missing from the right-click contextual menu when you want to add something to your Outlook Calendar?
I probably have blogged about this before, but it’s again annoying every single time I go to do something that I think is intuitive and it’s not there.
Doesn’t it make sense to be able to right-click somewhere on your calendar and setup a reminder for you to do something? I know I can do that as a “task” and then specify myself to be reminded of the task at a certain time, but that just seems …read more