Comments on: Tools of the Trade: MyEmailReminders.com

By: andy epstein

andy epstein — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:15:09 +0000

me too. I had hundreds of reminders and now they are all gone. I guess I should have made a backup. I have not found a service with a set up as good as that one was. too bad. Please let me know if you know of one. A coworker of mine looked into this and the guys name who was attached to the web site was arrested for Child pornography. Not sure it was the same guy but maybe.

By: David Reinstein

David Reinstein — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:42:51 +0000

Dead as a door nail… No notice… no nothing. So much for free reminder services. This is the second one I counted on that went belly-up just like that. I won’t fall for it a third time nor should anyone else.

By: Camille

Camille — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:46:37 +0000

Myemailreminders.com website isn’t coming up for me either, which is what lead me to this site. They should have made an announcement they were taking it down, this is extremely annoying – I already missed two of my friend’s birthdays because I relied on it to tell me when they were, and now I have to track down that information all again!!

By: damian

damian — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:48:16 +0000

I effectively stopped using MyEmailReminders a few weeks ago; I needed most of my reminders to come via text message, and for some reason they just weren’t anymore. Hadn’t thought about the service since (been using an Android app to text myself reminders as necessary), and then after reading your comments, I checked and saw that the site is gone.

I love all the free/ad-supported services that are available on the Web, but I guess the flipside to their ease and convenience is that they can disappear at a moment’s notice. At least PingMe gave its users a few weeks notice in order to move shop; MyEmailReminders seems to have just slowly ground to a halt.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:21:45 +0000

Mine stopped working yesterday 7/25/11
Sure hope it comes back as I have everything on it.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:41:14 +0000

I have used myemailreminders for a couple years and have loved it (both email and cell-text reminders). However, now I can’t even access the website and I have stopped receiving emails all together. Does anyone know what’s happened?

By: damian

damian — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:38:09 +0000

Er, scratch Betwext – can’t set repeating reminders. I’ll look into your recommendations; thanks!

By: damian

damian — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:19:46 +0000

Funny you mention this; MyEmailReminders has worked flawlessly for me up until about the beginning of March 2011, at which point I started noticing significant disruptions in the SMS reminders (email reminders still worked fine).

I’ve since found two alternates: I have an Android phone, so I’ve been using the SMS Scheduler app to send myself SMS reminders (not it’s intended purpose, but it works). Also, I just came across this service today: http://betwext.com/remind Haven’t used it yet, but I will be looking into it.

Thanks for the other suggestions as well! Always great to have a few tools in the toolbelt in case something goes belly-up like PingMe.

By: cosmicrepairdude

cosmicrepairdude — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:36:02 +0000

I’ve been using several email reminder services since PingMe died. I use several at a time and in addition to important reminders, I have them send me a test message every morning at 6 am and every night at 11pm. Myemailreminders unfortunately has had periodic dropouts where they send me nothing for 2 or 3 days and then pick up again. I just experienced that over the last couple of days again for the fourth time and it’s the deal breaker. I’m dropping them and I can not recommend them as they are unreliable. I emailed them the first time it happened and they were apologetic and explained the problem and that it was fixed. Except it’s not.
The ones that have been reliable are mymemorizer.com , Zoho Planner, Airset, and Springpad. Springpad had a few dropouts but that was quite a while ago and they seem to be good now.