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handsomepete42

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Hi, my Dad just got the Note 2 and is just about ready to return it because he can't figure the thing out. Any suggestions on apps for old people?

The biggest thing that he's having issues with is the calendar. What he wants is to set an appointment on the calendar and, when it's time, have it ring at him like every 5 minutes until he tells it to stop. To be clear, he wants a loud audible notification periodically until he takes care of the task. His old PDA did it, his old phone did it, but for the life of either of us, we can't figure out how to make this pinnacle of technology do it. I've tried several calendars, task lists, and organizers, but NONE of them have this feature. Google Calendar has an add reminders option, but I set all five reminders and got one ring out of it, and then silence.

I have a S4 and love it, but this also is the one fly in the ice cream that is my smart phone. I too don't look at my phone every 30 seconds and many times am too busy to do that task so I ignore it in hopes that it will annoy me until I do it.

Please be nice.
 
Yeah I found Calendar Snooze too. It works alright, but the free one only gives 5 notifications.

To me it seems that this just isn't an issue to the google developers. Why? I am completely baffled as to why there isn't even an option to have repeating notifications. To me it's like buying a car and getting in only to realize it has no steering wheel and then when you ask about it everyone looks at you like you have 7 heads and the ONLY fix is a pair of vice grips on the bolt from some guy in the alley. For a smart phone with supposedly endless capability it seems that android is very handcuffed.

Can anyone give me a good answer?
 
Why not just use an alarm and label the alarm to whatever task it would have been in the calendar? In my alarm app, I can set it to "snooze" at any interval I want (5, 10, 15 min, etc with a max snooze of 25 times, which would give you 125 minutes of alerts at 5 min per alert). I'm guessing that the reason why you aren't seeing this feature is because it is more reminiscent of an alarm feature than a calendar feature and most people don't need multiple alerts because they "take care of" the task almost immediately. Maybe it would help to know what your dad wants to use the feature for. Could you give an example?
 
I'm sorry I didn't see that last post... It was the calendar feature on both phone and PDA. The reason he doesn't want to use the alarm is because he would have to set anywhere from 5 to 10 alarms daily, sometimes more. Can you imagine how long that would take?

He used it for reminders to take pills, reminders to call people, doctors appointments, meetings, ect. Many times these reminders are set days even weeks in advance. His memory isn't what it used to be, so pretty much anything that he has to do that isn't right in front of him.

Calendar snooze seems to work alright for him. So this issue is pretty much gone.
 
It's a calendar not a to do list.

Calendars are for reminding you that the meeting/appointment is coming and you can tell it to snooze, but when the time has arrived there really is no point in the calendar telling you again. Not even outlook at work repeatedly tells you after the meeting time.

Use a task and to do app.
 
pool_shark said:
It's a calendar not a to do list.

Calendars are for reminding you that the meeting/appointment is coming and you can tell it to snooze, but when the time has arrived there really is no point in the calendar telling you again. Not even outlook at work repeatedly tells you after the meeting time.

Use a task and to do app.
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Or pay $4.99 for the Premium version...
 
Was reading another place and found an app called Nudnik. It sounds like what you are looking for, it is a free one month trial then it is $5.11.

I have not used it, just passing along the info.
 
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