How to remind yourself of things

Say you set yourself a resolution, perhaps to lose weight or to remember to smile. Half of the challenge is remembering to do so. How can you remind yourself? You could put up a sign. But we get desensitised to signs fairly quickly. You could set up a reminder email. But you probably get desensitised to that fairly quickly too.

What is needed is a system that has access to as many of your communication channels as possible, and uses those channels, at random, to remind you of the message.

Channels:

• email
• text message
• notice board
• Twitter/Facebook (perhaps just add an entry into your feed)
• alarm clock sound (with recorded message)
• billboards (customised billboards are probably coming anyway)
• ads on web pages you visit
• post
• phone call (with recorded message)
• RSS reader
• car dash board (not whilst driving)