Since Task.fm launched in May, i’ve been keeping track of all the great reminder ideas people have bee coming up with and putting to use on Task.fm.  Here are some ideas on what you can use Task.fm
Birthday Reminders
I always forget birthdays! Task.fm provides a convenient place to store Birthdays:
Toms birthday “12th September” remind me on the 10th September
Website Bookmarks
How many times have you come across a website and gone “thats cool, but I’ll check it out later”. And you end up forgetting about the site all together. When this happens a shoot a quick Direct Message on Twitter:
d @taskfm visit thacoolsite.com in 2 days
Wake Up Calls
Pro Accounts in the U.S and Canada (very soon to be world-wide) can receive voice call reminders. This means Task.fm is perfect for wakeup calls:
wakeup Anthony tomorrow at 9am via voice call
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What do you use Task.fm for? Share your ideas by leaving a comment below or Tweeting with the hashtag #taskfm and if we like….a free pro account is yours
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I use my task.fm account to help keep track of my finances. I set reminders for when bills are due, when direct debits are to come out and out of what account, and I enter my purchases in task.fm so I have all the up to date info electronically when I balance my check book. That is usually more accurate than online banking if something hasn,t cleared.
you’re not alone Brandy, lots of users seem to use Task.fm for bills and finances.
A pro account is yours – send your account email to info@task.fm and I’ll hook you up
What do I use Task.fm for? One of many opportunities how I can use Task.fm is next:
Of course, it’s a playful nickname. Suddenly, idea has come to me. I taught her to use Task.fm to generate tasks for me, so, now i can receive them via mail, sms or twitter.
My wife likes to give me various tasks. For example, she call and ask me “please, buy a chocolate in the shop”. My friends call her “Tasks generator”
My mother has Multiple Sclerosis , so she requires 24 hour care, so a service like this , helps me set up reminders for her various appointments as well as when to make call backs to her doctors. , I use it for scheduling her medication times. and for myself, Im in into photography and use many social sites like deviantART, tumblr and twitter, so I set reminders on various brainstorming topics on what to post about . I love the simplicity of the service , and if it continues on the road its on , I can only see it rising to the top to take the ranks as the top GTD webapp..
“Chris”
Hi — I have been waiting for Task.fm all my life (well adult life). As a list maker/post it note user, I can’t remember what I’m doing at any given moment without a reminder in front of me. This makes traveling for business challenging — until Task.fm came around. Now I just send myself an email reminding me to check in for my flight, ask a colleague how a meeting went, or to email a friend to wish their child happy birthday. It’s invaluable when I’m traveling. Plus, unlike other services, it works! Thanks!
I use task.fm to remind myself to charge my mobile phone, because the recent twitter integration means I can set up tasks and reminders no matter where I am or what I’m doing…as long as my phone has juice!
I am constantly trying to improve my GTD system.
I discovered that I needed to break my reminders into three categories: events, ticklers, and task reminders.
1. The first is events. Something that has been scheduled with someone or some group. I put these in Ical which is synced with Google Calendar so that I have access to them anywhere. I then have it send an agenda to me every morning and give me a one hour warning before the event.
2. The second is tickler items: Items that I don’t need to do right away but need to be reminded about in the future. I input these events into task.fm using the web interface. But the secret sauce in implementing this in my GTD system is integrating Task.fm with Evernote. When I am away from my computer I use SMS to email anything that crosses my mind as something to do or remember into my Evernote inbox. Messages sent to Evernote via email or SMS go into a folder labeled “** Inbox.” The reason for the asterisks is that it sorts this folder to the top of the list. I have set the email address that task.fm sends reminders to my Evernote email address. Now, when it is time for me to take action on something, task.fm sends that task to my Evernote inbox where I am then able to process it and take action on it. Task.fm has given me the tool to implement what is probably my coolest GTD hack ever.
3. The third type of reminders is errands. If I am at work or somewhere and realize that I need to do something that day, I will SMS/Twitter that task so that Task.fm will send me a reminder via SMS when I will be a position to do that activity.
Using technologies in this fashion, I have pretty much duplicated one of the tasks that an executive assistant would do for me. Task.fm is perfect for my needs
Rais, Christopher and Jeffery – a Free pro account is urs. Could you send me your account emails to info@task.fm
Shazzer, I’ve already tweeted you
Credit Card interest is quite high (at least in my country, it’s 42%.p.a). task.fm comes to rescue me by remind me 2 days before the deadline payment date for all my credit cards (I’ve got 3, each for different purposes). By having reminded by task.fm and pay the cc in full, I can save a lot of money. Thx task.fm!