Saturday, April 29, 2006
Beeplet: Another Online Reminder Service
byI’ve grown quite fond of using HassleMe for daily reminders in my inbox but the new Beeplet looks pretty promising. While still in beta (but isn’t every Web2.0 app?) Beeplet allows you to receive reminders through email, RSS or both and IM looks to be added in the near future. You an also tag your reminders which is nice if you plan to create a lot of them in order for you to create some sense of order to your tasks. Unfortunately, Beeplet does not yet allow the creation of recurring reminders like HassleMe does, which for me is a deal breaker for switching services. HassleMe’s killer feature is the fact that you can set fuzzy, recurring reminders to occur at intervals of your choosing. Right now though if all you need is reminders for one-off events, Beeplet would be a good choice.
I like that more reminder services are showing up. Many of the Web2.0 sites are built more with geeky web developers and designers in mind and therefore don’t appeal much to the average internet user. HassleMe, ReminderFeed and Beeplet offer a service that just about anybody could find useful.
