23 Ways to Use the Alerts Feature in Events
While you can use the Events application for scheduling any and every event that you might come across, as well as events that others in your network have shared with you, some events you might want to pay a little more attention to. These are events that are different from the others, most often where you need to do something to be properly prepared, to get the most of the moment before it passes.
For any of those events, that is where the email alerts can be helpful. Just select an event, click the Alert button and set the appropriate time before the event that you’d like to receive an email alert. Check off in minutes for last minute preparations, hours for logistics or other travel needed, days or weeks for your larger events.
With that, here’s a list of 23 events where creating an alert can be helpful as well as some of their respective activities.
- 1) Birthdays: Schedule the day of or weeks ahead of preparations are appropriate.
- 2) Anniversaries: Reminders of the beginnings of a different sort.
- 3) Meetings: Get an email alert 10 or 30 minutes beforehand to get things in order.
- 4) Parties: Make an alert to remind yourself to bring any gifts or items appropriate for the occasion.
- 5) Dinners: Plan accordingly for a pot-luck or travel time needed.
- 6) Solstices and Equinoxes: Create a reminder for any astronomy inclinations or just marking the seasonal milestones.
- 7) Full Moons: To note for those looking for a little extra light in the night or likewise for others to stay indoors.
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High/Low Tides: Create an appropriate alert for plans of surfing, fishing, clamming or other beach going adventures.
- 9) Workshops: Set an alert for a week to give time for a little extra research.
- 10) Car Checkups: To keep your transportation in tune.
- 11) House Maintenance: For seasonal reminders around the house or yard.
- 12) Lessons/School Activities for Kids: Make an alert an hour or two ahead of time, or longer for larger events.
- 13) Home Brewery: Keep track of steps needed over a process spanning weeks and months.
- 14) Healthcare: For occasional visits to the doctor or dentist.
- 15) Annual Fishing Trips: Get a reminder to get the proper supplies, not saying any are needed but you never know.
- 16) Family Reunions: Plan ahead whether for logistics or making a note of any items to bring.
- 17) Weddings: Create an alert months ahead of time to review appropriate gifts or registries.
- 18) Vacations: Set a reminder for shorter or longer term items needed, such as Visas, Passport renewals.
- 19) Sales Trips, Customer Visits: Helpful to plan ahead for any customer research needed or product preparations.
- 20) Project Deadlines: Make an alert before different project milestones are scheduled.
- 21) Festivals, Conferences: For last minute checklists such as confirming transportation, accommodation and any items needed for the event.
- 22) Concerts/Tickets: Set up an alert to get notified the day before tickets go on sales.
- 23) Guests Visiting: Get a reminder for becoming a host preparation, including any cleaning, cooking or other logistics being used.
With any event alerts that you’ve created, in the email notification will be a link taking you directly to the event in its’ appropriate folder. From here you can easily access other applications from the same folder. Helpful to look up a note with a list of tasks or instructions, actions for larger projects or websites and news for further reference.
Matt | Posted on | January 23, 2012 | Comments Off