This is a collection of tools for the Microsoft Outlook Calendar folder that are used for reminder management. Many of these reminder tools send the reminders to an email address, cell phone, or pager.
One notable exception is Reminder Manager and Extended Reminders, both of which allow you to set reminders in any folder (pre-Outlook 2007 versions) and replaces Outlook's reminder dialog with a more powerful screen.
To use VBA to send an email message when a reminder fires, Send an email when an Outlook reminders fires
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Forwards reminders to your mobile phone, pager or PDA. |
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ADEtuning allows users to set the default values for the All day event "Show as" status (Free/Tentative/Busy/Out of office) and the All day event reminder time. This COM Add-in is works with Microsoft Outlook 2010/2013/2016. | |
Appointment Reminder is an Outlook Addin that allows you to schedule sms appointment reminders direct from Outlook Calendar. | |
Outlook COM add-in that enables you to receive reminders from any mail, calendar, contacts, or tasks folder in your default information store (Exchange mailbox or Personal Folders file) except the Outbox. | |
Outlook utility to send e-mail reminders from Calendar appointments. Requires e-mail access to your pager | |
Pager gateway for Exchange Server. Use with PageMaster/ol to monitor multiple Outlook users' reminders and send pages for them, too. | |
Sends appointment reminder notices to your pager. Requires Microsoft Exchange Server. | |
Public Reminder Add-In provides reminders from any email, calendar, tasks or contacts folder in Microsoft Outlook, Public ShareFolder or Microsoft Exchange Server. This allows you to set reminders on items in any folder in your profile, including mailbox, PST file, or Public Folders. Reminders can be emailed to any pager or email enabled communications device or can send SMS messages to any mobile device, PDA, Blackberry or cell phone which can receive emails. | |
Automatically sends your Outlook reminders to your mobile phone when you are not at your desk. When any of your Outlook reminders pop up, Reminder Forwarding will wait for you to click Snooze or Dismiss, or open the item. If you do not click on the reminder within 30 seconds your reminder will instantly be sent to your mobile phone. | |
Reminder Manager provides reminders from any email, calendar, tasks or contacts folder in any open mail store. This allows you to set reminders on items in any folder in your mailbox or PST file, secondary PST files or public folders. Reminders can be emailed to any pager or email enabled communications device. | |
With the Reminders Assistant plugin for Outlook you can set reminders for each and every Outlook folder including embedded ones.Reminders Assistant is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook. The Reminders Assistant component is one of the 18 addins included into the program MAPILab Toolbox. | |
ShowReminders brings the native Outlook reminder window to the forefront without taking focus away from your currently active application. Reminders are no longer hidden in the background. | |
Current versions of Outlook do not display pop-up meeting reminders in the same way as previous versions did - they no longer display on top of other windows. SureAlerts addresses this problem and displays your reminders in a small window in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, very similar to the way Outlook displays new incoming e-mails. Alerts now display the length of time until your event or is overdue. This matches the information that Outlook displays in its reminders. If the event is in the past, the text is red. Mark a Task or Email Follow-Up item as completed via its alert. |
More Information
- Microsoft Outlook Calendar Issues
- Synchronize mailbox and Public Folders -- includes tools to copy appointments from public to mailbox folders
Other useful calendar tools can be found on the following pages:
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11 Comments on "Calendar Reminder Tools"
Hello Diane,
We have multiple calendar appointments/events in outlook 2013 for various scheduled activities (patching,upgrades etc). We manually send mails for these events one day in advance.Can this be somehow automated ?
This is not supported in outlook and can only be done "manually" - when the first reminder goes off, reset it for the next period.
There are quite a few practice management softwares available. one client uses practicemaster but is not all that happy with it. Others use time matters and prolaw and seem to like them.
Are there any Calendar Reminders that are free? I've missed a few meetings already after we switched to Outlook 2013 from GroupWise and would like to prevent this in the future without having to pay out of pocket.
Reminder Manager has a free version.I take that back... it doesn't have a free version. :( Sorry, if none of the utilities on this page are free, then no, I don't know of any.No we are not syncing with any device for this account and we are using smtp.
Does it happen if you start outlook in Safe mode?
I'll see what I can find out. I'm not familiar with any other complaints so its hard to say if its unique to your situation or rare bug.
I'm close to screaming.. I'm using Outlook 2007 and I'm missing important calendar entries because I don't get the entry emailed to me. Is this only possible with Outlook 2010 or the free Google Calendar? :-/.
I really like my Outlook calendar.
When accepting an invitation from others it creates multiple remiders (more than 5 times) on outlook 2010 but when I create an invitation on my calendar it creates only 1. I have tried /cleanreminders switch and used mfcmapi to delete the whole reminder folder to create it but the issue still exist. Can you please suggest what else I can try. Thanks
What type of email account using? Are you syncing with any devices?
Outlook (the desktop client) doesn't include an option to email reminders, but you can do it with addins or reminders. Outlook.com, microsoft's counterpart to gmail and yahoo, has an option to email reminders.