Android clock with alarm WITH COMMENTS/NOTES

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I am getting too old for this stuff. I have mastered the CLOCK application on the new Moto G_play phone. Didn't take long; the phone ap is featureless.

So I set the alarm for 6pm last night. The alarm went off. I had no memory of why I had set it. Turns out I was supposed to call David when he got home.

So I need a clock Ap (or at least an alarm Ap) that lets me set the time for the alarm AND let's me add a short note "Call David F" or similar.

A few years ago some of you suggested I use my phone for alarms (after my clockwork timer died), and i want you to know that I use my smartphone clock/alarm several times a day. I am making progress

TIA, Chris
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I use Google's Keep app for this purpose. You can add a reminder to an item that you create.
Google's Calendar app is another option.
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I find making a note on a piece of paper solves the problem.
When the phone alarm goes off, you look at the piece of paper, and it tells you what you need to do!
You're welcome...!
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See if you can install the "Clock" app from Samsung (came with my Samsung). It let's you put a label on each alarm.

Alternatively, just buy a Samsung.
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An alarm for the dentist at 07:50? Isn't at a bit early? I thought you went to the dentist at
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Leif wrote:
04 Feb 2025, 18:02
See if you can install the "Clock" app from Samsung (came with my Samsung). It let's you put a label on each alarm.
Thank you, Leif.
You get bonus points for helping to me to devise a suitable search term.

I have d/l a file "Alarms_ Notes & Task List_1.2.2_APKPure.apk" which says it comes with notes. So I have entered the noteless alarm for 6pm, and then entered the new-fangled "Fulmine" set for 6:05 with a note attached "DavidF"

So at 6pm the old alarm should go off to remind me to find the phone in time to read the note on the new alarm.

That done I shall start to wonder why I am phoning David about a dental appointment ... :evilgrin:
Alternatively, just buy a Samsung.
You're kidding, right? I and my budget are still recovering from buying this one last November. It STILL doesn't work as the old LGK30 used to, and it seems to be getting worse at letting the phone ring when I'm somewhere else for just TWO minutes ...

P.S. The Samsung did not install

Thanks again, Chris
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@HansV
I use Google's Keep app for this purpose. You can add a reminder to an item that you create. Google's Calendar app is another option.
Too complicated for me; next thing you know I’m batting away The Cloud with its insistent demands that it can make my life easier, which it never does.
From a design point of view, it seems to me that all applications ought to support comments or notes. FORTRAN II had comments (lines began with “C”) and VBA has comments (‘). Give a few minutes and I might dream up an application that should NOT support comments. Data entered into a spreadsheet supports comments, as does text in WP documents. My bank statements have comments (admittedly “TF 0000000022188571629”) used to stump me, as did “DWP- STATE PENS PEN/PEN” each December, but I’m over that now.

@John Gray
I find making a note on a piece of paper solves the problem. When the phone alarm goes off, you look at the piece of paper, and it tells you what you need to do!
Thanks John. I’ve now been listeing to the Goon clip since 8am …

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An alarm for the dentist at 07:50? Isn't at a bit early? I thought you went to the dentist at
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Thank you, Leif.
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ChrisGreaves wrote:
04 Feb 2025, 20:03
...I have d/l a file "Alarms_ Notes & Task List_1.2.2_APKPure.apk" which says it comes with notes...
You mean you directly downloaded an Android app from somewhere, you didn't get it from the vetted apps in Google Play Store?

For someone so paranoid that seems like a very carefree approach to security.

I hope I've misunderstood you.

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stuck wrote:
05 Feb 2025, 11:29
You mean you directly downloaded an Android app from somewhere, you didn't get it from the vetted apps in Google Play Store? For someone so paranoid that seems like a very carefree approach to security. I hope I've misunderstood you.
Guilty as charged :cop: :stop:
But if it makes you happy I will repeat my serach of yesterday and, just to prove I can do it, I shall d/l a fresh copy from the Google Play Store.

I d/l the ap from "APK PURE" yesterday because, well, I have done so in the past. APK Pure has been the fastest way for me to d/l an Android Ap on my laptop.
Four or five years ago I grew tired of not being able to d/l the ap in its complete APK form; too many Aps started downloading an "installation" kit which meant that when I re-installed those aps I did not get to return to the original version of the ap; and yes, I know that in doing that I was bypassing security features in the newer version.
My paranoia remains in place with anything associated with the necessary evil that is Google, so skipping the Google Play Store was seen as a "win" for me.

I believe that I completely understand your qualms.
(1) I had a younger friend in Toronto, worked for the MTO and his job was to speed to tangled messes on Highway 401 where daily he saw mangled human bodies among the wreckage. He would not buckle up his seat belt until he was at a safe cruising speed.
(2) My good neighbour David does good work in a panel-beating shop Mon-Fri and spends his weekends here completely repairing insurance write-offs. Neither he nor his missus use seat belts. He has purchased or scavenged spare buckles to fool the seat belt detectors.
(3) Me? I am staggered at the number of people in a passenger jet who unbuckle their seat-belts as soon as that stupid little orange sign beeps off.

We humans are often totally illogical. Cats, on the other hand have not got as far as developing technology to cause collisions, let alone protective devices.
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ChrisGreaves wrote:
05 Feb 2025, 12:29
My paranoia remains in place with anything associated with the necessary evil that is Google, so skipping the Google Play Store was seen as a "win" for me.
As long as you have an Android phone, you're dependent on Google. So get rid of it ASAP. Don't buy an iPhone either - you'd be dependent on Apple, which isn't any better than Google...

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Bring back the Blackberry!
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ChrisGreaves wrote:
05 Feb 2025, 12:29
...We humans are often totally illogical...
Your actions here are unequivocal proof of that :laugh:

You didn't use the Play Store and thus risked inadvertently downloading Something BadTM in an attempt to avoid Google knowing what you were doing. Yet the instant you installed the package on your (signed into Google account) Android phone Google immediately knew what you'd done.

As Hans has already pointed out. If you are using an Android phone you have sold you soul to Google, so get over it and don't circumvent the Play Store. OK, so stuff there isn't guaranteed to be 100% malware free but at least Google does its best to try and ensure stuff on offer is OK:
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Get an Alexa Dot. If you watch woot.com daily you can sometimes find them for less than $20US.

When installed and active on the 'Net, you can tell Alexa to set a reminder and the device will prompt you to state what the reminder is for. Then when the appointed time arrives the device will remind you.

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And sell your soul to Amazon...
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stuck wrote:
05 Feb 2025, 11:29
... you didn't get it from the vetted apps in Google Play Store?
Hi Ken. I just revisited the Google Aps store and don't see an option to d/l the APK. That is probably a security feature, too.
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I do see an option to Install, so I will revisit there with my phone tonight and install from Play Store.
Thanks for the advice, Chris
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HansV wrote:
05 Feb 2025, 12:39
As long as you have an Android phone, you're dependent on Google.
So my Big Mistake was buying a phone from the BELL store at Bloor and Bay mid-year 2016. That phone was an Android and I will add it was a very strange device. I finally worked out how to use it, downloaded some aps, and slid it off a table at Walkham's cafe sometime in 2019.
The second biggest mistake was buying a replacement Android phone from the Bell store here in Bonavista; I had obtained and mastered a few more Android Aps, and didn't want to change. What did I know?
The third mistake was last November in St John's when the second mistake had developed a cracked screen, so I went in to Staples and bought a new new Android because ...

I am little different from the guy who always buys a Toyota because his fist shiny car as a Toyota Corolla.
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