When I became a mom, it felt like the already ridiculous number of things I had to remember tripled. In addition to work, home and personal things, I had to remember things about my child, like her birthday. (Does anyone else with more than one child have to stop and think a minute when asked for their child’s birth date?)
Reminder apps like Todoist and Wunderlist have been a lifesaver for getting some of those things out of my head so I don’t have to think about them anymore. I can depend on the app to remind me of what I need to do and free up my brain to think about something else like how long it is until vacation, am I right?
If you want to know for sure that you are getting the most benefit from your reminder apps, I’ve put together a list for you of the tasks I have set phone reminders for.
Phone Reminders for Personal Tasks
- Cancel or renew memberships
- Run the robot vac
- Review weekly goals and calendar
- Mail birthday cards
- Clean the dishwasher monthly
- Clean the washing machine monthly
- Schedule yearly doctor’s appointments
- Pay tithes
- Pay bills
- Meal planning
- Cleaning tasks
- Laundry tasks
- Library book return
- Replace my toothbrush, razor and mascara quarterly
- Plan for upcoming birthday gifts/holiday gifts
Phone Reminders for Family Tasks
- Change smoke detector batteries
- Change AC air filter
- Car oil changes
- Contribute to retirement accounts
- Roll out trash to curb
- Annual credit reports
- Create the monthly budget
- Water plants
- Feed pets
Phone Reminders for Work Tasks
- Post to social media
- Bill clients
- Create weekly emails
- Update profit and loss sheet
- Pay quarterly taxes
- Track website and social media stats
- Update online portfolio
When you create reminders for these tasks in your app, you can choose to have them repeat, add notes or add a time to be reminded about them.
Research shows that we can only hold about 7 things at a time in our short-term memory “banks.” Setting these reminders will help you free up your memory bank for other things.
Plus, there are a host of other benefits like avoiding:
- fees from overdue bills
- stress of forgetting a loved one’s birthday
- car problems due to forgotten maintenance
- projects or clients that slip through the cracks
- overwhelm from overdue cleaning or laundry
Setting phone reminders is only one way you can put tasks on autopilot. For more ideas of ways to save time, check out my free guide on 25 Ways to Find Time.
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