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I'm trying to figure out how to implement a memory-aid I've wanted for a while now. Any assistance/advice would be welcome.
Basic goal: Fix my memory via notes to future self.
Implementation ideas (so far):
* Find e-mail client that will email me at a later time. (Current difficulties: don't want the emails to just have later time-stamp so that they show up first in list of emails. Don't want to have to look at an email for 2006 until, say, 2006.)
* Use handy new Google Desktop search to check daily for appropriate notes. (Current idea: dump all relevant notes into one gigantic text file as I think of them, then take advantage of Google's searching to daily search for everything with approximately the right date format. Current difficulties: I want to have this as a scheduled task (whole point is to have my computer remind me, not me remind myself.) Therefore, need to figure out how to make scheduled tasks thingy not just run Google Desktop, but run it with appropriate search string derived from date. This shouldn't be hard, but I have no idea how to do so.)
* Leave post-its all over random places. This is current method. Current difficulties: it doesn't work very well. Notes I keep around for any length of time get ignored. This plan could be fixed, in theory, with a big day-planner like object, but that leaves less flexibility for regular reminders.
* Really abuse scheduled tasks. Create a new one for every reminder I want to have. Current difficulties: this seems ugly and inefficient.
Desired features:
* Ability to enter a wide variety of dates/times. (Eg: Specific dates as combinations of [October, Oct., 10/] [nineteenth, 19th, 19] [2004, /04, 04, '04] or larger time intervals, such as Wednesday, or September, or 2004.
* Super-happy-shiny feature: recognition of relative dates: eg: tomorrow, next week, in 7 days, etc would all be converted into a date, and displayed then (when created) or alternately calculated from creation time when searched for (could restrict to a given list in such a case, so as to make at all manageable).
* Preference for quick location of relevant info. (ie: if an email sent to future, great, if Googled, hope to get relevant info quickly from giant file of doom, or to have enough of info show up in snippet to be useful reminder.)
* Shows up on its own. The only things I remember to do online daily are check email and read a handful of websites. I want this to have low effort on my part to be reminded, and ideally only mild effort to input new reminders. (Definitely needs to be easier to be reminded than to remind, however.)
Please let me know if you've got any advice on how I can implement this. In particular, if you know of an easy way to delay sending email (ideally w/Eudora) until a specific deadline, or to schedule a task to run Google Desktop with a search string culled from the clock, please let me know. I've been wanting this general ability for a long while now, and it seems like it should be relatively simple...
Basic goal: Fix my memory via notes to future self.
Implementation ideas (so far):
* Find e-mail client that will email me at a later time. (Current difficulties: don't want the emails to just have later time-stamp so that they show up first in list of emails. Don't want to have to look at an email for 2006 until, say, 2006.)
* Use handy new Google Desktop search to check daily for appropriate notes. (Current idea: dump all relevant notes into one gigantic text file as I think of them, then take advantage of Google's searching to daily search for everything with approximately the right date format. Current difficulties: I want to have this as a scheduled task (whole point is to have my computer remind me, not me remind myself.) Therefore, need to figure out how to make scheduled tasks thingy not just run Google Desktop, but run it with appropriate search string derived from date. This shouldn't be hard, but I have no idea how to do so.)
* Leave post-its all over random places. This is current method. Current difficulties: it doesn't work very well. Notes I keep around for any length of time get ignored. This plan could be fixed, in theory, with a big day-planner like object, but that leaves less flexibility for regular reminders.
* Really abuse scheduled tasks. Create a new one for every reminder I want to have. Current difficulties: this seems ugly and inefficient.
Desired features:
* Ability to enter a wide variety of dates/times. (Eg: Specific dates as combinations of [October, Oct., 10/] [nineteenth, 19th, 19] [2004, /04, 04, '04] or larger time intervals, such as Wednesday, or September, or 2004.
* Super-happy-shiny feature: recognition of relative dates: eg: tomorrow, next week, in 7 days, etc would all be converted into a date, and displayed then (when created) or alternately calculated from creation time when searched for (could restrict to a given list in such a case, so as to make at all manageable).
* Preference for quick location of relevant info. (ie: if an email sent to future, great, if Googled, hope to get relevant info quickly from giant file of doom, or to have enough of info show up in snippet to be useful reminder.)
* Shows up on its own. The only things I remember to do online daily are check email and read a handful of websites. I want this to have low effort on my part to be reminded, and ideally only mild effort to input new reminders. (Definitely needs to be easier to be reminded than to remind, however.)
Please let me know if you've got any advice on how I can implement this. In particular, if you know of an easy way to delay sending email (ideally w/Eudora) until a specific deadline, or to schedule a task to run Google Desktop with a search string culled from the clock, please let me know. I've been wanting this general ability for a long while now, and it seems like it should be relatively simple...
