Just a quick post on something I found useful that maybe some of you will. I have Shingles, which I won’t even start to detail and complain about (or I would be writing forever)… basically, it is the suck. I have medicine to take for it, and I am terrible about remembering to take medicines. I thought “damn, it’d be nice if I could easily setup my phone to bark at me to take the meds”. After asking Joogle (which is asking Jol to look things up for me, because he is like a librarian on steroids… and I be lazy), I decided to use Google Calendar to setup events and attach SMS (phone text messages) reminders to each of them.

What I did was:

  1. Setup a new calendar, I called it “Eric’s Medicines”, so it will be useful again some day.
  2. Setup a repeating event for each daily dose (i.e. Take Morning Valtrex @ 8am, Take Afternoon Valtrex @ 12pm, etc), made them repeat daily for however long I’m supposed to take the meds.
  3. Setup a reminder for each to my phone (you have to register your phone by going into settings and adding your phone number, then google sends a text message with a verification token)

That does it. Easy as hell and now my phone says “hey, donkey, take your meds to get the scabies to go away” (Katy and I are calling them “scabies”, at least I have a sense of humor about my skin feeling like burning).