How to set your calendar to send you popup reminders, emails or sms text messages

If you want your calendar to send you reminders from any of your calendars you can quite easily.

Things you can do:

• Send reminders as either a popup on your desktop/phone, an email or an sms text message.
• Get a schedule for the day emailed or texted to you from one or all of your calendars at 5am so you have it as an easy reference point during the day.
• Students can do this as well so they can receive sms messages about homework, revision schedules or meetings.

Setting up you account to send sms messages

Click on calendar and then click the gear icon and select settings.

Select mobile setup from the options:

Pop your mobile number into the telephone number box. Click ‘Send Verification Code’.

You will receive a message with the verification code. Put this code in the ‘Verification code’ box and click finish setup. You can now set alerts as sms messages.

To set a reminder for an individual event

Create an event in your calendar.

Edit the event.

Just under the event details there is a space to add alerts:

You can add more than one type of event and specify when the reminder is to happen.

To set reminders for all events on a particular calendar and receive a daily schedule

Go back to calendar settings.

You will see an option called ‘Reminders and Notifications’ - click this. You will see:

You can choose what type of notifications you get and when you get them. You can also choose to get a daily email or text (or both!) with your schedule for the day. Helps me remember duty on a Tuesday morning!

Thats it - never forget anything anymore - as long as it is on your calendar. Would be great to use with students - especially for homework, revision timetables and coursework deadlines.