You could totally make appts on a calendar device and get it to send reminders.

iCal can do the alarms and possibly the nagging.

You can be notified of a pending reminder by setting one or more alerts for it using iCal. You can set alerts to make a sound, flash a notice on the screen, or perform other actions.

I have to remind Dan all the time that if, the dishwasher has space in it, to PLEASE put his dirty dishes right in there, and not on the counter or the sink.

And I have seriously though about labeling the shelves in the kitchen because, although he is quite amenable to sharing chores like putting the clean dishes away, HE PUTS SHIT IN THE WRONG PLACES. This is my pet peeve (Virgo) but it drives me batshit. The colander? it doesn't go THERE...!

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The ones who are not Spock, anyway.

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The package I was waiting for has been delivered and it is not currently waiting so I should just go grocery shopping, right? Right. Here I go.

It is a pleasant routine! And I'm fortunate that I can do it most days other than the unrelenting travel days.

But a timer is a good idea. Or maybe I could just shift it so that's last, and I am supposed to be at my desk at that point.

Go grocer!

Oh, and Astrid will nag you. And it has this awesome thing where you can set up a task to recur after you've completed it, not just after you were scheduled to do it. Like, I need to shred on a regular basis, but once I've shredded it'll be a few days before I need to do it again. So with my old task lists, I would schedule it every couple of days. But then I wouldn't actually get 'round to it, so when I finally did and checked it off, there would be, like, three weeks of Shred! Shred! Shred! to check off when I really only did it the once. With Astrid I can be late, but then finally do it and then it will prompt me three days after that. Which is awesome.

But it's a phone app, not a computer program. I mean, it's a program....okay, I will cut off the pedantry there.

Trader Joe's new product alert: dark chocolate bar filled with speculoos. I got one at lunch (for Tim, since I assume speculoos, being made from cookies, is not gluten free [I will, however, try a bite]).