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Remind Me There   (+6, -1)  [vote for, against]
Appy

(Is there no "App" category?)

On my phone, I can schedule diary events, or I can set a reminder to do something in, say, thirty minutes.

But I would much appreciate an app, or a function in my existing calendar/scheduling app, whereby I could be reminded of something when I'm in a particular place.

For example, "Next time I'm in my car, remind me to get those papers out of the glovebox" or "Next time I'm in a supermarket, remind me to buy Worcester sauce".

Given the positional awareness of my phone, this should be implementable.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 30 2013

iPhones have been able to do this for years. A Google search indicates that Android phones have similar capability. The only thing I can see that's novel in this idea is that, as far as I know, you can only set your phone to remind you at a specific location like “Home” or at a given address, (i.e. any location that has defined GPS coordinates), and not “whenever I'm near a supermarket”.
-- ytk, Jul 30 2013


Well baked. As mentioned, iOS has this built into the Reminders app. For Android there are apps such as Spoty and I wouldn't be surprised to see it show up in the next iteration of the OS.
-- tatterdemalion, Jul 30 2013


// iOS has this built into the Reminders app//

//iPhones have been able to do this for years.//

Ah! Well, I'm diluted to be proven redundant. Now I'll go away and figure out how to use this feature.

[marked-for-deletion] - wkte
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 30 2013


Yes, setting a reminder according to a *type* of location would be useful, not only for the car (perhaps, as you suggest, based on Bluetoothness), but also generally. For example "Next time I'm near an off-licence, remind me to grab a bottle of wine."
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 30 2013


Will your app correct your spelling, too?
worcestershire sauce
-- xandram, Jul 30 2013


//spelling...worcestershire// *Ahem*. "Worcestershire" sauce is a mass-produced condiment, widely available to all and sundry. My current sauce-maker, however, lives very specifically in the town of Worcester (which is located in the county of Worcestershire).

//When's the *last* time you were in a supermarket?// I've been told that it helps one to connect with the masses if one affects to be part of the common herd. Come to think of it, they never told me _why_ one should connect with the masses, or indeed quite _who_ the masses are. Are you, by any chance, the masses? And if so, what's it like?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 30 2013


The masses are a bit like the hoi polloi, but generally less bathed. You haven't done any of this “connecting” yet, have you? If so, I recommend you place any clothing and personal effects you had on you at the time in an incinerator immediately (but do make certain the manor is upwind first).
-- ytk, Jul 30 2013


Ah - I see. I always thought that the hoi polloi were by far the most interesting of the polloi - they have such quaint customs.

Oddly enough, the hoi polloi seem to regard me as "quaint" too. At least I think they said "quaint".
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 30 2013


Go to wall mart and look for the slow moving persons weighing over 300 pounds. These are the massive masses.
-- popbottle, Jul 30 2013


Oddly enough, we have a Worcester, Massachusetts, but you wouldn't want the *sauce* they have there!!
-- xandram, Jul 31 2013


yeah but what's up with the underscores [MB]?
Do you speak in underscores, too?
-- xandram, Jul 31 2013


Underscores are proxies for italics, which do not seem implementable. At least that's what / use them for.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 31 2013


The Lea and Perrins factory is still in Worcester, but given the size of it, it is obviously not their main base of manufacturing these days.
-- not_morrison_rm, Aug 01 2013


<App Goes Off At The Doctor's Office: "...You Need a Colonoscopy...">

Yeeeaaahhhh.... Please remind me again WHY? My ass seems so contented now.

<App Starts Playing, "...Don't Worry, Be Happy...">

Don't give me that crap, App! It's gonna feel like Custer's Last Stand back there!

<App Flashes Evil Grin>
-- Grogster, Aug 01 2013


<App Goes Off While Walking Across the Golden Gate Bridge, Playing The Song "Jump!">

You really don't like me, do you App?

<App Flashes Evil Grin>

Listen here, App!! I paid $3.99 for you! Why do you have to be such an asshole?

<App: "...I was worth $4.99...">
-- Grogster, Aug 01 2013


Handy for minefields.
-- not_morrison_rm, Aug 01 2013



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