Filed under: Macintosh, Productivity
Your very own personal assistant
by Joey Celis Jul 8th 2008 at 7:00AM
Having a personal assistant is great. If you need a cup of tea, your dry cleaning done or someone to walk the dog simply send your personal assistant out to do those things. If you lack the finances to retain the services of a personal assistant you can get one for free from macscheduler.Unfortunately, Scheduler for Mac will not get get you a cup of tea or any of the other stuff that a real live personal assistant would do because after all Scheduler for Mac is a program on a computer. But what it can do is automate.
Unlike other basic schedulers that just present you with a dialog box letting you know that you should start on those sales charts now, Scheduler for Mac will actually open up your spreadsheet application as well as the document ready for your review. Scheduler for Mac has incorporated a very easy to use automation process along side the standard scheduling options. When setting up a new task, select the file or application you want open and when the time comes Scheduler for Mac will handle the rest.
Aside from the usual office documents you can also schedule websites to open (think eBay), assign custom audio files to act as audio alerts and customize the visual aspect of the alerts as well.
So while Scheduler for Mac will never take the place of a real live personal assistant, at least your reports will be completed on time.
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Josh said 8:07PM on 9-24-2008
I like the idea of mac automating tasks, but what happens when I do need that cup of tea? Seriously though, I've had enough of software engineers trying to come up with personal assistant solutions. Bottom line, to carry out those tasks, you need a real person to get things done.
I've realized that a software solution doesn't work and a personal assistant or a virtual personal assistant can cost way too much money. I recently found a company that provides personal assistant and concierge services, for only $36 bucks per month, yah .. not bad right.
http://www.RedButler.com
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