In Your Face: Meeting Reminder 4+

Unavoidable reminder for the easily distracted!

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.

You Really Have to Work to Miss Meetings with This One

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.

开发人员回复 ，

Hi! Thank you very much for your review. The reminder is displayed on the currently active screen, i.e. the screen with the currently active window. Therefore it can vary where you actually see it.

Not missing meetings anymore

The problem with remembering meetings these days is that we have all learned tune out the multitude of little notifications we get throughout the day.

Minor and vital reminders are treated with the same level of importance.

As a result it is easy to miss an important meeting and have a protential client loseinterest in doing business because it seems like we are unprofessional or something of that nature.

The truth is, we just need a way to elevate the importance of a meeting above the less important reminders that we also have to have runnning to make our lives happen these days.

That's where In Your Face really shines. If it's on your calendar, IYF will capture your complete attention by taking over the whole screen with the reminder when it is time to remind you.

You can't miss it!

It's a brilliantly simple app, but quite powerful when you realize you can never miss a meeting again as long as you're looking at your screen.

I consider this app to be a vital part of my daily work systems and processes and I highly recommend it to anyone who values their business.