Showing posts with label reminders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reminders. Show all posts
Set Reminders For Unreplied Emails In Gmail With Notifus For Chrome
Emails are one of the first things we attend to when we start work in the morning, but reading all the new emails for the day isn’t the only thing one has to do; answering emails and following up on previous ones is important too, and that’s often difficult because there’s always so much to follow up on. Notifus is a Chrome extension that acts as an alarm clock for unanswered emails. When you compose an important email or one intended for someone who is highly unlikely to get back to you on time without sufficient nagging, you set a reminder for the email. The alarm can be set for a minimum of 1 day and a maximum of any number of days. Repeat reminders can be set at the time of sending the email as well.
Notifus adds six buttons to the Compose email view, one each for setting a reminder for 1-6 days and one for adding a custom number of days. The buttons act as send buttons too, so click them only after you have composed, proofread and added attachments to your message. To set repeated alerts, click the “Send & 1D” button. The alerts notify you if the email hasn’t been replied to at the end of the time you’ve set, i.e., if you email someone on December 24, 2012, and set a two day alert, the extension will notify you of the pending reply on December 26, 2012. If you’ve already received a reply, the alert will deactivate on its own.
The first time you use Notifus, you will be asked to authenticate your account and create a password for it. It takes less than a minute, since your email address is already there.
Once set, Notifus shows a timer when a message is open. You can remove the alert you’ve set by clicking the cross that appears next to it.
Notifus is useful but needs improvement. At present, alerts and timers show up only when you have a particular message open, and not when you are in the inbox view. The logic behind it that you shouldn’t have to worry about these messages since even if you archive them, the alerts will actively keep track of them. Despite that, some users might prefer to have a cursory look at how many of their emails have not been unanswered. The alert is a good backup in case you forget about an email, but knowing just which tasks are still pending would be a huge help. The alerts can only be set in number of days; adding support for specifying the time would also be great. Overall, Notifus is good to have around as a safety net. Do note that it currently does not work on the new Gmail compose view.
Install Notifus For Chrome
Notifus adds six buttons to the Compose email view, one each for setting a reminder for 1-6 days and one for adding a custom number of days. The buttons act as send buttons too, so click them only after you have composed, proofread and added attachments to your message. To set repeated alerts, click the “Send & 1D” button. The alerts notify you if the email hasn’t been replied to at the end of the time you’ve set, i.e., if you email someone on December 24, 2012, and set a two day alert, the extension will notify you of the pending reply on December 26, 2012. If you’ve already received a reply, the alert will deactivate on its own.
The first time you use Notifus, you will be asked to authenticate your account and create a password for it. It takes less than a minute, since your email address is already there.
Once set, Notifus shows a timer when a message is open. You can remove the alert you’ve set by clicking the cross that appears next to it.
Notifus is useful but needs improvement. At present, alerts and timers show up only when you have a particular message open, and not when you are in the inbox view. The logic behind it that you shouldn’t have to worry about these messages since even if you archive them, the alerts will actively keep track of them. Despite that, some users might prefer to have a cursory look at how many of their emails have not been unanswered. The alert is a good backup in case you forget about an email, but knowing just which tasks are still pending would be a huge help. The alerts can only be set in number of days; adding support for specifying the time would also be great. Overall, Notifus is good to have around as a safety net. Do note that it currently does not work on the new Gmail compose view.
Install Notifus For Chrome
Create Scheduled Notification Panel Reminders With Lotify For Android
The Android notification bar provides you with a quick and convenient means to take a peek at all your important phone, social media and other events and updates. Be it the app update notifications from the Play Store, your upcoming calendar event, a missed called alert or a critical system upgrade notification, the bar serves as a dedicated spot on your device to remind you about virtually every important thing. With the previously reviewed ReNotify, we have already seen a very handy solution to create multiple custom notification bar alerts that can keep you apprised of your important tasks/notes without requiring you to rely on any overly complicated alarm, to-lo list management or reminder apps. New to the market, Lotify is yet another app belonging to said genre that can be called an enhanced variant of ReNotify. Besides supporting almost all the core features of the aforementioned app, Lotify brings to the table certain subtle personalization tweaks, as well as the option to create scheduled notification bar alerts.
Just like ReNotify, this app lets you create custom notification bar alerts/reminders, complete with custom title and brief description, by simply tapping the Lotify icon within your device’s notification shade. You may create as many notes from anywhere within the entire OS as you want, and make each note distinguishable from the other by assigning it a custom icon. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (and higher) users can use the two finger swipe gesture to view a brief description about the note, whereas users with older versions of Android will have to make do with just the subject/title of the note itself.
A Lotify notification can take three different forms: scheduled notifications, ongoing notifications and temporary notifications. Once on the new notification screen, you can assign the note a subject, a message and an icon of choice. Using the toggles at the bottom, you may decide to keep the reminder as an ongoing and/or scheduled one, or just a temporary one. In the latter’s case, swiping sideways, or tapping a notification from the notification shade will dismiss the message permanently.
An ongoing notification, on the other hand, cannot be cleared from said area via the clear button or the swipe-to-dismiss gesture. Instead, tapping such notification will take you to the app’s main UI, prompting you to clear the note once and for all if you choose. Should you opt to create a scheduled notification, you’ll be asked to specify the date, as well as the start and end time for the notification to display and it will show up at the assigned time, for the specified duration.
By default, the app keeps its new notification addition option persistently accessible from your device’s notification shade. You can however, disable this option by navigating to Menu > Disable “Add new” on the app’s main screen.
All in all, Lotify proves to be another remarkably simple to use solution for placing custom notes/reminders on your Android’s notification dropdown. Though there are certain improvements that can help the app get even better. For instance, the developer can consider adding the option to edit existing notes, maintain history of previously created notes, switch between dark and light theme, and/or allow users to pick custom notification icons from the Gallery.
Download Lotify Notification Maker For Android
Just like ReNotify, this app lets you create custom notification bar alerts/reminders, complete with custom title and brief description, by simply tapping the Lotify icon within your device’s notification shade. You may create as many notes from anywhere within the entire OS as you want, and make each note distinguishable from the other by assigning it a custom icon. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (and higher) users can use the two finger swipe gesture to view a brief description about the note, whereas users with older versions of Android will have to make do with just the subject/title of the note itself.
A Lotify notification can take three different forms: scheduled notifications, ongoing notifications and temporary notifications. Once on the new notification screen, you can assign the note a subject, a message and an icon of choice. Using the toggles at the bottom, you may decide to keep the reminder as an ongoing and/or scheduled one, or just a temporary one. In the latter’s case, swiping sideways, or tapping a notification from the notification shade will dismiss the message permanently.
An ongoing notification, on the other hand, cannot be cleared from said area via the clear button or the swipe-to-dismiss gesture. Instead, tapping such notification will take you to the app’s main UI, prompting you to clear the note once and for all if you choose. Should you opt to create a scheduled notification, you’ll be asked to specify the date, as well as the start and end time for the notification to display and it will show up at the assigned time, for the specified duration.
By default, the app keeps its new notification addition option persistently accessible from your device’s notification shade. You can however, disable this option by navigating to Menu > Disable “Add new” on the app’s main screen.
All in all, Lotify proves to be another remarkably simple to use solution for placing custom notes/reminders on your Android’s notification dropdown. Though there are certain improvements that can help the app get even better. For instance, the developer can consider adding the option to edit existing notes, maintain history of previously created notes, switch between dark and light theme, and/or allow users to pick custom notification icons from the Gallery.
Download Lotify Notification Maker For Android
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