Pester

Just what I've been looking for for years. Pester has it all. Yay! Pester.

This so far works well, however the fact that I can't find a way to set up an alarm to repeat automatically will limit its usefulness to me. I want to set a reminder to go off every Monday through Friday. As it is now, it looks like I have to set it manually every day. If I could remember to do that, I wouldn't need the reminder in the first place; which is to lock the side door of our building before leaving work.

I have only just come across this app and it meets my needs perfectly. Time will tell of course, but my initial impression is very favourable. I especially like the flexibility it offers and the fact that visual and audible alerts can both be set. Many thanks to the developer for this free app.

I've been using this for over a year and Pester has become indispensable. What I needed was a reminder app to alert me to bill paying, picking up my son at school, appointments, projects due, kitchen food, ebay bids, ... whatever I need to remember. So while I guess this could be considered an alarm clock, it is more about creating both one-time and repeating Reminders. I tend to set the alerts to overkill by bouncing the Dock icon, displaying a message, playing a tune, and speaking the alert message. Because I'm not a clock watcher and I get distracted by my work projects, this gets my attention. Plus I can click a snooze feature to re-remind me of the alert if I'm not ready to deal with it yet. Lastly, I can save all my reminder messages in a list to choose again later, as well as delete my "one-time" reminders. Pester's interface is flat and ordinary—which would be nice to see improved—but it sure gets the job done.

Very useful app, particularly the repeating function. Small wish -- it would be very nice to be able to make our own time presets, so no need to type in commonly used times.

I stumbled upon this by accident, testing out various timer applications. Given my past experience, I thought just a simple countdown timer would suffice. However, when I was trying out Pester, I realized that oftentimes, when I use a simple countdown timer and it goes off, I have long forgotten what it was I was attempting to time! Usually this involves cooking or baking and by the time I figure it out, whatever it was I was making is ruined. Pester allows you give the activity being timed a name so that immediately sold me. I also appreciate the relatively small memory footprint of ~ 30mb.

exactly what I was looking for THANX!!!!

Pester has a bizzare issue of being unable to set near-term timers. An example: http://cl.ly/1M3R1D0U1B0F0g0M3q0e When I set the same day, this timer defaults to tomorrow when the reminder is only 20 or so minutes away. When I force it to today, the timer says set a time in the future. Odd.

Simple enough for everyone to use but that's all that it has.

Perfect, and brilliant! Thankyou.

Really nice timer program. The system-wide hotkey makes it very easy to set up new alarms, and the ability to handle multiple timers simultaneously is very useful, as is the variety of ways in which the notifications can be made.

I don't understand why half the commands in the main window are greyed out and I cannot modify them - for example the "alert sound" menu is greyed out and cannot be modified, but also the "do script" - "speak message" and "wake up computer" commands are totally greyed out and cant be clicked on and off. Don't download this unless it's not an important appointment you have to go to, or you can spare time to read the help files for a program which should be intuitive and easy to use!

A great app. The only app i've found that has a countdown and an alarm clock !

Does one thing well and does it free. Awesome.

A simple, elegant reminder/timer.

Perfect! Small, simple, free, works perfectly.

fantastic, very simple to use, can set an alarm in 2 seconds flat, great app, love it! thanks!

Just great. Simple, elegant, and it works. Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

This was exactly what I was looking for. I hated opening up Meeitng Maker every day, when I only needed it once in a blue moon. Thanks for the great effort!

Fantastic! Does what it says - lotsa alarms to set. Simple and clean. Thanx!