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How To Use Yahoo!’s Events Reminders

My Yahoo! events reminders are one of the most useful features I’ve ever found (and I’ve been using Yahoo! for a while…).  It’s particularly useful because checking my email is the first thing I do every morning.  (You, too, probably.)

I have a really hard time remembering to take my vitamins in the morning.  It’s not that I don’t want to take them; it’s not that I don’t think they’re important; it’s just that they’re “out of sight, out of mind” in the medicine cabinet, and I never even think about them.

So, I set up an email reminder in Yahoo!, and now the first thing I see every morning in my inbox is a reminder telling me to take my vitamins.

To add a reminder to your calendar in Yahoo! mail, go to the tab that says “Calendar”.  (There are four tabs; Mail, Addresses, Calendar, Notepad.)  Mine takes me right to the daily view of my calendar.

Scroll down until you see the “Add Event” button at the bottom.  Click on it.

Type in a title; mine is “Vitamin Reminder”.  The event type is “Other”.  I leave the date on today’s date, so it will start right away.

The “Time:” section isn’t really important; just getting it to remind you is the important part.  I have mine marked “starts at” 5:00 am (an hour before I get up) and “duration” 15 minutes.  This just gives the calendar a frame of reference.

“Location” I leave blank; in “Notes”, I put down “Take your vitamins”.  You can leave both blank, if you like.  “Sharing” is marked as private.

The “Repeating” section is the second most important (next to the “Reminder” section); you want it to repeat every day, with no end date.

You can skip the “Invitations” section; it isn’t important.

The next area on the list is the “Reminder” section, and this one is important.  Select the “Send a reminder” button, and set your time for “15 minutes before”.  Check the box that says “Email address”, and include your email address if it doesn’t do it for you.  Leave your Instant Messenger and Mobile device email unchecked.

Now, scroll down to the bottom and hit “save”.  And voila!  You never need to forget your vitamins again.

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