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Why don't Outlook and other calendars allow for random reminders?
1 point by adp123 on Jan 6, 2012 | hide | past | favorite
Outlook and Google Calendar should offer the ability to set random reminders that would, within certain parameters, remind you to call, text or email someone. Think needy client, your mom or the chick you hook-up with but should call every now and then when it isn't for booty.

Every calendar has a reminder feature, you can even set it to pop up every day or at some other interval. But they are all on a specific time schedule.

Someone should build an app (of just integrate the feature into popularly used calendars) that would allow me to:

1) Choose a contact

2) Choose a method or multiple methods of contact (call, email, text)

3) Choose parameters such as only on Sunday afternoons OR between 8am and 9pm weekdays OR between 10pm and 2am on weekends

4) Allow for multi-method/time reminders for the same contact

Likely users would be 1) business people who want to ‘touch’ their clients or prospects randomly within the normal business times but want the contact to seem natural, 2) people who want to/know its right to be in contact with family or friends but again, want it to seem natural and not rote, and 3) the one that I expect I suspect would get the most use- the ‘hook-up’ that you’re not dating, but clearly hook-up with sometimes, you need to keep the relationship going so when you call for the hook-up, the relationship hasn’t gone cold,




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