On Our Minds

Getting Things Done

 “I work as a programmer and web designer and it involves a lot of concentration. I can either let interruptions occupy my mind and forget about it permanently – or reQall it!
 
If I need to come back to something later, I reQall it and keep going with my train of thought. No more loose ends. If I see a great design idea, I grab the phone and leave myself a reminder instead of sending myself email or writing on scraps of paper. It's much safer when driving, too.
 
When I finish one task, I can open up reQall to see what I need to do. Today, reQall reminded me to call and ask a question. I hit the ‘show related items’ button and there was my Evernote snapshot of the business card with the phone number I needed. Brilliant time saver!
 
David Allen of Getting Things Done says, ‘Anything that does not belong where it is, is an “open loop” pulling on your attention.’ With reQall, I am better able to keep my attention on what I am working on instead of what I have to do later.”
– Jim Sewell, programmer, Key West, Fla.

Game, Set and Match

"I'm a professional tennis coach and I live my life mostly on the tennis court. I work over 30 hours as a full-time coach and it can get hectic, especially as my clients can sometimes swap and change times with little notice – and that can happen whilst I'm concentrating on coaching someone else.
 
Before reQall, I was using different applications. Many of them were quite useful, but they never really satisfied my idea of a memory jogger or an app that I could use to help me remember things, such as booking courts or creating lesson plans for my tennis groups.
 
After coming upon a clip on YouTube about reQall’s full range of uses, I got really addicted to it and used it on an hourly basis at times. I use the SMS and email notifications to remind me of the little things that I have in my brain.
 
reQall Pro allows me to organize my thoughts in so many simple ways. Since then, I've managed to remember 90 percent of things – the rest is just me being lazy and not remembering to input information. I must add that the sharing of information, which allows me to remind my girlfriend of things from my iPhone, is so useful. I find it amusing that even with her amazing memory, she can find my reminders that I send to her quite useful.

Thanks, reQall. You have inspired me to remember more!!"

– Lam Huynh, Birmingham, England

Dude, Where’s My Car?

“Before reQall, I used to park a 10-minute walk from my place of employment and pay $8 a day, three days a week for parking. Since getting reQall, I park in a two or three-hour parking space that’s a three-minute walk from work. I set a reQall reminder to move the car to another spot just after midday – the parking inspector usually doesn't get around on time, and I need to move the car only once a day. Apart from two parking tickets – not reQall’s fault, since I neglected to act on the reminder – I have saved $24 a week since November 2008.

reQall has saved me at least $1200 (Australian) and covered the cost of my $879 pre-paid, unlocked iPhone I purchased on the first day it became available – not to mention the fact it has also saved me many hours of walking around.”
– Doug Young