I'm a software engineer with attention issues, especially prone to hyperfocussing on technical work. I might know I have a meeting coming up in a few minutes, decide to quickly look into a technical task, and only realize 30 minutes later that I have missed most of the meeting. I've lost track of time and left friends waiting for an hour or more. Basically, I need a tool that can force me to understand that time is passing, not just pop a tiny alert in the corner of my screen.In Your Face is great for this. I've been using it for a week and already I've noticed that I frequently hit 'snooze' on the one minute warning for meetings, and am SHOCKED at how little time seems to have passed when the 1 minute snooze is over. Those are all meetings I would have been several minutes late for, or forgetten altogether.The configuration is carefully thought out - not too much complexity but powerful enough for me to make sure my "focus time" calendar blocks don't trigger alerts. So far, I have left on IYF alerts for my "Hold for lunch" blocks, because that's one that I all too frequently ignore until it's too late to eat before the next meeting.

Sometimes you miss calendar notifications. At the 10 minute alert before a meeting, you are faced with jumping on really early, or waiting and potentially being late to a meeting because you missed the second notification because you are wrapped up in, oh, let's say a really interesting spreadsheet. InYourFace makes sure you don't have to wait in the virtual lobby for what feels like ages OR miss that snoozed alert and scramble to be late because (once again speaking theoretically and NOY from personal experience) you were rapt with a cool research project.I would give this five stars once they get a handle on consistency with multi-screen. I have three (laptop and two external) and it varies where that warning lands. You can, however, make it be on ALL screens at once.

This app looks like exactly what I’ve needed. When you first set it up it says it has a trial mode with your first 20 alerts being free! Excited to try it out, I went through the setup and on the last step it offers to show an example alert! The example works great and I’m excited! I click “OK” to close the alert and I’m immediately greeted with the message that my trial has expired and that I need to subscribe. I declined and I can see my next events in the app, so I’m anxiously awaiting my next event to see what happens. Either way, it was really pushy and if it wasn’t such a promising app I’d already have moved on and uninstalled it based on that experience and the pushiness to get you to pay immediately without getting to try things out.