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I came across Discreet Reminder today, which is a small little program that performs the basic function of reminding you to perform reality checks while you’re on the computer. It may only perform the basic function, but it does the job well. It also lives up to its name, by flashing and playing a sound that you choose. You can disable that if you wish. It can be as “discreet” as you want. You also can edit how often it flashes and which sound it uses, as well as the message it displays on mouse over. This is accomplished by editing the settings in the settings menu. (In the new version)
I’d recommend this to anybody who is having trouble with reality checks, especially if you’re on a computer a lot.
Download is here.
-Hatter
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I’ve used reminders in Outlook to do something similar to this.
Also, at one time I programmed some Word macros to randomly remind me to do reality checks.
It’s good to find a way to do them frequently.
Agreed. Although I wouldn’t rely on it as the only thing prompting you. I’d keep it as a secondary to keep you from forgetting too many, and just try and get the habit established with other methods.
You’re always finding cool stuff -thanks for sharing! I’ve found all the reality test reminder appz were too intrusive.
I can’t really be at work in a professional environment where others can see my screen and have some gigantic blurb pop up that tells me to imagine a purple dragon in the room.
Hi, glad you like it. I have made a version that doesn’t require manual xml editing now
Though my rate of LD’s hasn’t gone up, I find that it is actually helping me into the habit of performing frequent reality checks. I hope it will pay off in the long run.