The other day I was browsing through the O’Reilly book “Mind Performance Hacks” and it was talking about changing your habits through the use of a simple device called the MotivAider®. Basically it’s a pager-like thing that vibrates at a chose interval in order to remind you to do things. Sounds simple, huh? Unfortunately, the device costs $60! Seems pretty steep for a vibrating alarm clock.
I’m thinking that there must be some simple program that I can install on my Treo 650 that would do the same thing. In fact, I have a few timer programs such as TikTok and 1TouchTimer, but I don’t think either can set recurring timers.
Anybody know some Palm software that would fit the bill?
cron
Hi Marc,
We were just discussing MotivAider substitutes on the Mentat Wiki, on the support page for the Exoself hack. I’m on a mobile device and can’t cite the full URL, but visit ludism.org/mentat and you’ll find plenty of alternatives. My current favourite is the Invisible Clock.
Ron Hale-Evans
author, Mind Performance Hacks
Here’s the full URL:
http://www.ludism.org/mentat/MindPerformanceHacks/BuildAnExoself
BTTT as it were? Any progress on this? I’d pay 20 bucks if someone would write a piece of sw that duplicates the functionality of the invisible clock. j
I agree with Pete. The LAST thing most of need are more devices. I am not a programmer, but I am thinking this would be a fun project. (Could it really be that hard?) I would pay for a program that does as the motivaider would on my palm treo. It could be a more high tech version of an exoself if the silly thing would remind me to do stuff randomly.
-Jennifer
Try Pocket Doan for Palm OS…it’s free…
http://www.getjar.com/products/5498/PocketDoanAMeditationTimer