I just had a cool idea, though it may not be original (and it may not be feasible with current cell phone technology).<\/p>\n
My Treo, like any PDA or smartphone, currently lets me create an item on its calendar and specify that it should give me a reminder alarm a certain number of minutes (or hours) ahead of time.<\/p>\n
Which is fine, but sometimes what I really want is for it to remind me to do something when I arrive somewhere<\/em>. If I leave work and start to head home and then realize there's something I want to remember to do as soon as I get home, I can certainly pick a time n minutes in the future and create a calendar item with an alarm on it for that time; but it would be more elegant to be able to say \"When I get home, regardless of how long it takes me to get there, remind me to take the trash out\" (or whatever).<\/p>\n This would require my Treo to know my location. I'm not sure what the state of the art is for integrating GPS into cell phones. But I keep thinking that in a few years, GPS will be a standard part of any cell phone, and then it seems like it would be fairly straightforward to write an app that says \"When you get within n meters of location x, set off the reminder alarm.\"<\/p>\n Do GPS units already have that capability?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just had a cool idea, though it may not be original (and it may not be feasible with current…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}