05-29-2003, 02:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Outlook Reminders Via SMS or Email
http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/software.htm
There are two add-ins, priced at $7.50 each, that will either send your Outlook reminders to you via SMS or email. The SMS application actually just captures the reminder event in Outlook and hands it off to another third party application that will send the message.
I am not sure how it works in Europe, but with my T-Mobile account, I can send an SMS message via email by setting up an email account at My T-Mobile. I already do this to get SMS/MMS messages autoforwarded by rules when I am out. However, my solution doesn't capture reminders.
Desktop requirements are Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP) and 2003 Beta 2. This site is run by Ricardo Silva, an MVP for Microsoft Outlook, and contains lots of advice and add-ins for Outlook.
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05-29-2003, 02:54 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 29
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Why would a PocketPC user need this?
Would your reminders already be synced into your PocketPC and therefore show up there already? I guess it might be useful if you had a mobile phone without a calendar feature.
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05-29-2003, 03:17 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 984
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I've used for years something called Wireless Secretary Pro for Outlook from JTech Software. It used to be shareware, but I believe that he stopped development and posted a free registration code.
Anyway, it works with Oultook 98 as well, and I use it to send reminders to my pager - but I think it can also send SMS messages or SMTP messages instead.
It sends me my agenda for the day every morning as well. Great for those times when I have left my PPC on my desk or something - I never miss a meeting with this.
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05-29-2003, 04:43 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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Re: Why would a PocketPC user need this?
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Originally Posted by Ethan
Would your reminders already be synced into your PocketPC and therefore show up there already? I guess it might be useful if you had a mobile phone without a calendar feature.
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Calendar reminders, yes. Task reminders are at 8:00am. :evil: Well, unless you are usnig a third party app like Pocket Informant or Agenda Fusion. Of course, email reminders are not at all, so there is some definite benefit to this.
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05-29-2003, 08:52 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2002
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You send him an e-mail to order the software? That's odd. And no demo?
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05-29-2003, 09:27 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 115
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SMS Email Notification
I too use the SMS notification and it is great for getting notification that I have new email. The SMS message is simply the Subject Line of the email.
I can then decide if I want to use my T-Mobile to dial in to my email account and download the full message or wait until I get home. Truly a mobile solution.
But I also don't see the benefit of this for Tasks.... I use AF and I can set a task reminder for whenever I want.
Also, in Outlook - one could drag a task or email onto their calendar and make it remind them that way if they wanted to.
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05-29-2003, 09:59 PM
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Re: SMS Email Notification
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Originally Posted by Quidproquo
I too use the SMS notification and it is great for getting notification that I have new email. The SMS message is simply the Subject Line of the email.
I can then decide if I want to use my T-Mobile to dial in to my email account and download the full message or wait until I get home. Truly a mobile solution.
But I also don't see the benefit of this for Tasks.... I use AF and I can set a task reminder for whenever I want.
Also, in Outlook - one could drag a task or email onto their calendar and make it remind them that way if they wanted to.
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So what is your point? Someone comes up with a $7.50 piece of software that sends reminders to their cell phone via SMS (YES! Cell phone, no PDA required) and you say you can do without it because you spent $30 for AF and manually create appointments for all email reminders? :roll:
Why does everyone have to be so critical? If this software works for you, great! If not, why tear it down like that? Sigh.....
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05-29-2003, 11:31 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 193
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this sounds kinda nice
This really sounds like a kind of nice feature... for people with cell phones... If you have a pocket pc it will just remind you itself... hehe But it is still kinda cool. I like seeing new ideas and ways to use software.
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05-30-2003, 05:08 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I've had this functionality for years, and for free! I just sync Outlook with my Yahoo! calendar/address book/notes/etc. using Yahoo!'s free Intellisync. Once you set up your mobile phone to receive Yahoo notifications, then all your reminders will automatically be sent to your phone.
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05-30-2003, 05:32 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by seanhanley
I've had this functionality for years, and for free! I just sync Outlook with my Yahoo! calendar/address book/notes/etc. using Yahoo!'s free Intellisync. Once you set up your mobile phone to receive Yahoo notifications, then all your reminders will automatically be sent to your phone.
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Well, all except your task and email reminders. :wink:
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