Your Voice Reminder 1.7

Your Voice Reminder 1.7 is a unique and fun method of helping you to add to the taskbar clock the customization, recordable time announcements, images, calendar, forthcoming events list, daily time sheets, quick text / voice notes taking, sending and converting to tasks, appointments and to-do items that reminds about themselves in the ever-new-color scrollable window with specialized alarms and reminders. Its for those who are pressed for time.

No more lost ideas. Click once on the taskbar clock and start taking the notes or record the voice message. Then send them to the default text editor, word processor, email or convert to tasks appointments and to-dos with the alarms and reminders. You may also send them to the clipboard and then past to any program.

No need to bother about your time. Your Voice Reminder (YVR) will announce it for you either with prerecorded or you recorded voice. Your own voice will be always pleasant for you and you may e-mail your date/time announcement as a gift to your friend.

No need to bother about your birthdays, anniversaries, appointments, tasks, rest breaks or other events. YVR will remind you about them with text / voice startup reminders or alarms. No more composing to-do list and schedule. YVR will automatically compose it from your alarms and startup reminders. Its exportable, importable and printable.

No more clattered screen. The calendar, big round clock, to-do list and an image of your choice will be shown and hidden with one mouse move (you even do not need to click). No need to waste your time for the skinning. YVR skins with Windows XP. Moreover, at any new appearance its alarms and reminders have ever-new color making you easier to notice them.

The program includes reminders for major US holidays, daylight savings time, and other key events. YVR is so wise that it will show the start-up reminders daily, even if your computer never shuts off during the day. Work in comfort and let Your Voice Reminder to bother about your time and schedule.

Function:

1. Do not bother to see date /time at all and just listen to date /time announcement with your own voice. Only your own voice will be for sure always pleasant to you.
2. Get quick look at the forthcoming events for today and tomorrow in the virtual desktop.
3. View all your events, reminders (tasks, to-do items) and alarms (appointments) in a daily view simply clicking the days in the calendar.
4. Print your to-do list, (including tasks and appointments) automatically composed from your alarms and startup reminders, in a convenient portable format that fit virtually any bag or pocket.
5. Export reminders (tasks, to-do items) and alarms (appointments), take with you, import and merge.
6. Attach your favorite image to a "virtual desktop" near the calendar and quickly close it if "boss is near"
7. Fill all future timetables with a periodic event at one setting.
8. Never forget to make room in your timetable for future projects.
9. Never forget your appointments or special occasions: holidays, birthdays, club meetings etc.
10. Never forget about micro pauses to prevent the computer over-usage diseases.
11. Work in comfort and be warned when it's time for the phone calls, lunch etc.
12. Greet yourself at startup with voice or text greetings, e.g.: "Good Morning, your majesty!"
13. Keep you desktop clean and with one mouse move view the calendar, clock and forthcoming events list in a kind of virtual desktop.
14. Quickly prepare unique personalized gift for her or him.
15. Easily see the time with colorful taskbar clock.
16. Work with hidden taskbar and still easily see the time /date.
17. Quickly record your friend or your own voice for date / time announcement and hear the date /time with the voice that is always pleasant to you.

Advantages:

1. Announces aloud the time / date with the voice of a person your love or your own and also greets you.
2. Frees your desktop by placing your calendar, analog clock, and upcoming event list on a virtual desktop that can be opened and closed with a single mouse movement.
3. Your Voice Reminder (YVR) Screenshot: taskbar clock with round corners, pop-up round clock, calendar, pop-up image, to-do list, reminders and alarms window. Lets you display photos and images in a private (pop-up) manner and with animation.
4. Lets customizing your taskbar clock as never before.
5. Lets hiding taskbar and still quickly access the clock, calendar all other features.
6. Active task list. Appointments, tasks and items in to-do list are treated as alarms, special startup reminders and regular startup reminders correspondingly. The opposite is also true. Alarms may be considered as appointments in the daily worksheet, reminders as startup items and alarms as tasks. You may view this "to-do list" (including tasks and appointments) or print it in a convenient portable format that fit virtually any bag or pocket. It is especially handy when you should unexpectedly leave your computer and get all your current reminders and alarms with you.
7. Has three attractive computer alarm clocks. Two of them (round pop-up clock and taskbar clock) you see in the screenshot above (click it to enlarge). The third is the tray icon that may show time instead of the taskbar clock.
8. Is able to stack alarms (appointments) in the same time frame.
9. Supports multi-line notes in the reminders (tasks or to-do items) and alarm (appointments).
10. Supports random-color in reminders and alarms window.
11. Supports multiple users at the same computer at home and Windows XP fast user switching (only for multi-user installer version).
12. Has full text search for the reminders and alarms (i.e. tasks, to-do items and appointments).
13. With your voice recorded or image attached Your Voice Reminder could be a great, unique and personalized gift idea for her, for him and, well, yourself. You may easily email your voice (date /time recording).
14. To record your time announcement is as easy as to say 29 words.
15. The program has automatic noise reduction, recording volume control, and phrase trimming.
16. The program includes sample reminders for major US holidays, daylight savings time, and other key events.

Major Features:

1. Alarms / Appointments

• ability tstack in the same time frame.
• easy setting check
• quick resetting (kind of snoozing)
• quick view for the list of nearest future alarms / appointments
• obsolete alarms / appointments are automatically stored in a kind of recycle bin
• one-time
• recurrent (periodic)
• recurrent (periodic) alarm periods

- natural (nearest match)
- minutes, hours , days, weeks, months, years

• small period alarms that are useful tprevent computer over-usage diseases dnot clatter the windows with the events of the day or forthcoming events
• sample alarms / appointments
• settings: minutes, hours, days of month, days of week, month, year
• text

- multi-line notes
- full text search

• twtypes of day setting

- day of month (e.g. December 25)
- day of week (e.g. first Monday of September)

• view/edit the list of alarms /appointments for any day via the calendar
• view/edit all alarms /appointments
• voice
• with chime
• with time/date announcement

2. Appointments: see Alarms
3. Atomic Clock (using embedded Windows XP synchronization)
4. Calendar

• easy access via Taskbar (one mouse move, nclick)
• easy access when Taskbar is hidden (one mouse move, nclick)
• custom pop-up image near pop-up calendar
• view reminders (tasks, to-ditems) and alarms / appointments for any day (appointments / task / to-dlist for a day)
  

5. Dynamic Time Management Suite integration: see Startup
6. Day sheets of appointments, tasks and to-ditems with convenient access tany day via the calendar

• are automatically composed from alarms, special reminders and regular reminders
• can be easily viewed for a particular day and for nearest future
• can be printed for any number of days in the convenient portable format that fits virtually any pocket or bag.
  

7. Greetings (startup)

• dependence on the part of the day
• text
• voice
  

8. Export, import and merge

• Export of the reminders (tasks, to-ditems) and alarms / appointments with or without the voice messages
• Import of the reminders (tasks, to-ditems), alarms / appointments and voice messages. There are nduplicates because nidentical items are imported.
• The ability tedit after the import the new and the changed items in Merge Results view.
  

9. Hidden Taskbar mode

• quick access tanalog clock, calendar, forthcoming event list and image with one mouse move (you even dnot need tclick)
• access tall other features
  

10. Image

• animated opening with customizable duration
• customizable delay relative business suit opening (clock, calendar, forthcoming event list)
• quick opening and hiding in a private manner with one mouse move (you even dnot need tclick)
• most of regular formats are supported
• size is restricted only by available screen
  

11. Internet Time (using embedded Windows XP synchronization)
12. Languages

• English version of Your Voice Reminder
• French version of Your Voice Reminder
• Any of the versions supports both English and French time / date announcement. It is possible trecord the time date announcement in any language where the format tsay the date and time is compatible with English or French.
  

13. Multi-user awareness (for the multi-user installer only)

• Supports multiple users on the same computer.
• Supports Windows XP fast user switching.
• Supports the transparent install on demand for additional users on the same computer.
• Supports per user uninstall.
  

14. Quick access tnearest forthcoming events list with one mouse move (you even dnot need tclick)
15. Quick access tthe calendar with one mouse move (you even dnot need tclick)
16. Quick access tthe analog round clock with one mouse move (you even dnot need tclick)
17. Quick multimedia notes

• just one mouse click on the taskbar clock tbegin the note typing
• not more than three clicks tbegin the voice message recording
• the ability ttransfer the multimedia notes tand between alarms / appointments, startup reminders/ to-ditems, special startup reminders / tasks
  

18. Quick sound stopping
19. Recording for Date /Time announcements.

• automatic microphone enabling
• automatic recording volume control
• automatic noise reduction
• automatic ends trimming
• automatic volume normalizing over the chunks in the phrase
• automatic and manual testing of recorded chunk
• automatic and manual testing of the recorded chunk in a date / time phrase
• automatic and manual testing of ends trimming
• incremental recording (e.g. you may record and use 12 hours format, and then record 24 hours (only those words that are absent in 12 hours))
• wizard type interface
  

20. Recording voice messages for alarms and reminders.

• automatic microphone enabling
• automatic recording volume control
• automatic noise reduction
• automatic ends trimming
• automatic and manual testing of recorded message
• wizard type interface
  

21. Reminders / Tasks / To-ditems

• appears either

- at startup
- or at the wakeup from sleeping mode (once a day, if there were nstartups)
- or at the wakeup from hibernate mode (once a day, if there were nstartups)
- or when you are near your computer (once a day, if there were nstartups or wakeups, i.e. if your computer is always on and never sleeps )

• easy setting check
• one-time and periodic
• quick resetting (kind of snoozing)
• regular (natural periods), fuzzy logic
• reminder periods

- natural (nearest match)
- in days, weeks, months, years

• special reminders (tasks) in an interval starting n days before/after and ending m days before/after the date
• special reminders (tasks) shows how much days left
• text

- multi-line notes
- full text search

• types of day setting

- day of month (e.g. December 25)
- day of week (e.g. first Monday of September)

• view the list of reminders (tasks, to-ditems) for any day via the calendar
• view/edit all reminders (tasks, to-ditems)
• voice
• with chime
• with time/date announcement

22. Samples

• birthday
• daylight savings time (US)
• major US holidays
• medicine (e.g. pills)
• Valentine's Day
• weekly computer hard drive backup
• other samples
  

23. Skinning with MS Windows tsave your time
24. Startup coordination with Activities and Priorities. It allows you tset which of the twapplications will be on top after the startup
25. Taskbar clock customization

• any color available in your system
• background

- system color (seamless) / custom color
- solid color / gradient color

• font (size, style, color etc.)
• frame / nframe
• frame border

- autcolor / manual color
- round corners / square corners
26. Tasks : see Special Reminders
27. Taskbar clock / Status Area clock icon choice
28. Time / Date announcement.

• announcement period (5,10,15,30,60 min)
• chime (any wav file)
• date formats:

- month + day
- month + day + year
- complete

• date only, time only, both, time first, date first
• importing, exporting, e-mailing voice for the date / time announcement
• languages: English and French are supported directly.
• possibility record your own voice for the date /time announcement in any language where the format tsay the time and date is compatible with English or French
• time formats:

- 12 hours
- 12 hours with 0'clock
- 24 hours
- military

• time interval when it is allowed to say aloud
  

29. To-do items: see Reminders
30. Time interval when sounds are allowable
31. Window to show appointments (alarms), tasks (special reminders) and to-ditems (regular reminders) is

• sizable
• scrollable
• remember its sizes and positions
• may stay opened and accept new alarms / appointments
• "ever-new": randomly changes its color at any its appearance or any new alarm appearance
• may have the fixed black and white colors

Enhancements: Version 1.7. Quick one click multimedia notes besides scheduling now may be emailed, send to editors or the clipboard