I was going to go to the pub, but I can't be arsed.
So I'm going to support the Irish drinks industry Diageo by buying some Guinness and Jameson's and sitting at home watching fillums and eating popcorn or summat.

Altalt: a planner that lets you define a list of events and a list of activities to be done different lengths of time in advance so you can enter an event, tick all the associated boxes and get a customised set of reminders. For example: your other half is coming round for a romantic dinner, so you'd tick Go Shopping (1 day before), Do Laundry (2 days before), Tidy Flat (12 hours before) and Buy Flowers (3 hours before). Job interview coming up? Tick Dry Cleaners for Suit (week before), Barber's (week before ti give time to book an appointment), etc. etc.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:24, 1 reply, 10 years ago)

You could do that in a spreadsheet.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:26, Reply)

No doubt.
I'm crap at spreadsheets. I want a smartphone app that'll do it.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:26, Reply)

Or with google keep. Or with google calendar.
Or various other non-google alternatives that I don't know the names of.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:27, Reply)

I've become a little adverse to Google ever since it's tried to steal and sell my data at every possible opportunity.
The 'you have to have a Google+ account to rate products on the Play Store' and 'you have to have a Google+ account to comment on YouTube' attitude broke the camel's back as far as I'm concerned. But I'm interested in non-Google alternatives.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:30, Reply)

I never had any interest in doing either of those things so the whole google+ account wasn't a problem.
The amount of data google keep on people is scary, but they're one of the few that seem to be able not to get it stolen, or sell it in a way that makes you identifiable.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:34, Reply)

You may well be right,
but there's something about them trying to get their hands on that sheer volume of personal data that makes them intrinsically untrustworthy in my book.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:35, Reply)

I'm sure they have no interest in the minutiae of your dull life

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:37, Reply)

I try to live as dull a life as possible in order to render myself less marketable.
Doesn't seem to be making much of a difference though.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:42, Reply)

^gets targeted ads for warhammer

( Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:46, Reply)

war ban
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:54, Reply)

That's because if they lose it they can no longer exclusively "monetise" it by selling it to advertisers

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 17 Mar 2015, 12:36, Reply)