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.

With two monitors, in a remote-work world where you don't see others getting up for that next meeting, despite all other efforts, this is the first tool that has worked for me every time. How? 1. It's full-screen, and forces you to engage (unlike the notification that appears in a part of the screen you're used to ignoring (say, because you also get email notifications that way, or slack messages). 2. I set it to appear just one minute before my meeting, which means whatever I was doing I need to stop doing right now. I can hop on the call and if others are late, I can go back to what I was doing for a minute. 3. It has the ability to open your video link invite from the full-screen takeover message, which also saves a step. (By contrast, when you see the notification and you click on it, it sometimes doesn't activate, and even when it does, it opens up your calendar, and then you need to click 2 more times). 4. When people on one call see it if I'm sharing my screen, it's a reminder for everyone "hey, this meeting is ending" and serves as a way to wrap it up for everyone. (Those folks don't want to be the ones who make you late for another meeting.)It works. It's the first product that works for me. I historically have taken the attitude of "I am not paying for apps that are for work", but I realized $20 is a stupid small amount of money to pay for a service that makes me seen as responsive and on time - all the more critical when you're a remote employee. Since then, I've also purchased a few other app store apps that help me to be productive. I don't like thinking about how to function at work without it.

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.