[Electronics-Talk] reminders, alarms, and other productivity tools on windows pcs

Tue Aug 6 04:16:48 UTC 2024

Hello,
I sent just to Chris but am resending in case anyone wants to chime  in with
more thoughts or answers about using software for reminders or organizing to
do tasks.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for responding about this with many software ideas.
It gave me some ideas of what to do and learn.

I am working with a technology specialist who is an OT; she mostly works
with brain injuries and I'm working with her too because I have a sort of
new brain injury.

She recommended the To do app which is now installed on my Windows  laptop.

When you say To Do gives you  reminders, how does it do that? Via
notifications or email?
Maybe you have to open the app and look at it daily to see your lists of To
Do tasks?
Can you schedule reoccurring reminders in it such as reminding you to do
something on a Wednesday  6:00 
of each week?

Also, I did not find it very easy to use so far and I consider my self an
intermediate Jaws user. 
Are there shortcut keystrokes to get to the various places in To Do? It is
set up in a grid and as I recall the left hand side has a list of the types
of tasks.
I tried using the f 6 key with some success.
For users able to use the mouse, they can drag items over to places and
there is some color coding to guide a user in what to do. I use a screen
reader primarily although have seen the layout a little.
I'm glad you can flag emails for follow up which should show up in both to
do and
Outlook Tasks.

>From what my OT described, it sounds like a good app because it organizes
your tasks and you even can set dates to have tasks completed by or write
when the task occurs kind of like a calendar.

OneNote is a neat app free on the Windows platform.
I'm glad you brought that up.
I think One Note  sounds like a useful reminder app to use and learn. I like
the idea of it syncing across devices.
You used it on windows and  the IOS platform to see notes on devices. I
would imagine you could use from various Windows devices too such as
accessing it on a desktop laptop and Surface tablet provided you had the
OneNote app on each device.

Can you explain what you can share in OneNote? Can you share a Section or
whole notebook with another user? I would assume the other person has to
download and run the OneNote app too, but other than that, I hope it would
be easy for the other person to access the notes you wrote.

Thanks for any advice on these apps.

Its nice to know another person is successfully using OneNote, To Do and the
Outlook desktop app calendar with a screen reader.
I use Outlook but have not figured out its calendar yet. I'm hoping to find
some self teaching resources to learn it.
I did not see a general webinar on the Outlook Calendar from Freedom
Scientific and wish there was one.

I have seen the description of the OneNote webinar though and will watch it
soon.

Thanks,

Ashley

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at outlook.com> 
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2024 7:28 PM
To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
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Cc: Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: [Electronics-Talk] reminders, alarms, and other productivity
tools on windows pcs

I would strongly recommend Microsoft To Do for action items and reminders.
It's accessible and intuitive. It also interacts with the tasks in Microsoft
Outlook.

You also have tasks in Outlook, which are accessible and don't require much
of a learning curve, but I find the To Do application more intuitive. You
can flag an email for follow up and this will show up in Outlook Tasks and
To Do.

The calendar in Outlook let's you set up appointments with notifications.
It's pretty easy and accessible once you get the hang of it but it is a bit
of a learning curve. There might be tutorials or webinars for JAWS and NVDA.
If  you have any questions, people on the list will be more than happy to
help.

I also am a big user of One Note. It's a way to jot down a quick note,
organize them into notebooks and sections and have them synced across
devices. I frequently use it to access a note on my PC that I jotted down on
my iPhone and vice versa. You can also tag items as to do's in One Note and
then run queries to find all of your to do's across all of your notes.
Again, One Note is easy to use and accessible, but it's not terribly
intuitive and works a bit differently than other similar applications. It
does have a bit of a learning curve, but IMHO, it's worth it. There is a
webinar from Freedom Scientific on using One Note with JAWS that will also
apply to NVDA.

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Christopher (AKA CJ) =>÷
Chaltain at Outlook, USA

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Subject: [Electronics-Talk] reminders, alarms, and other productivity tools
on windows pcs

Hi all,

Hope everyone had a nice spring so far.

I am aware that smart phones and tablets such as the Apple IPhone and IPad
have productivity apps to help you organize your life and remind you of
things.

The IPad has a notes app as well as a reminders app. It also has the voice
memos app for short notes.

I use my pc, either desktop or laptop, much more often though and want ways
to do similar things on here.

Does Windows PCS and tablets have ways to set alarms, reminders and
appointments?

Is this accessible to screen readers?

Please tell me which app or software you use if you do this.

I know on the IPad you can set reminders and they pop up at certain times
and its there till you dismiss them.

I'm hoping something similar is there for the pc.

I also have the Microsoft desktop suite  of applications including Microsoft
Outlook. I thought learning to set appointments in it might be helpful.

Is Outlook's calendar and tasks feature a big learning curve?

Thanks.

Ashley

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