KeepUp

Shutting down

KeepUp is shutting down its servers on October 24, 2009.

Existing users may sign in and print out their tasks or delete them, or delete their accounts if they prefer. No new accounts are being created.

Thank you to our loyal customers for 2 great years,
Paul & Joel.

KeepUp named one of 100 teriffic web tools for meeting your personal and career goals

KeepUp was listed as a a teriffic tool to meet your personal and career goals, check it out here

KeepUp for Iphone is in the AppStore!

After months of design, development and testing, our native iPhone application is now in the store!. This link should take you to it. If for some reason it doesn't, just search for "KeepUp" within your appstore on the iPhone or within iTunes.

KeepUp 1 Year Anniversary of going live

Although we started working on KeepUp almost 2 years ago, our first public release of KeepUp was September 14, 2007. Thanks to the thousands of users of KeepUp that have given us feedback, encouragement and suggestions.

We started with a simple dream, "create a tool to help us manage our overwhelmingly complex personal lives". In a year we have come a long way toward this dream. KeepUp is now a very robust full featured community where you can get reminder ideas and manage the reminders and the assets they are related to. We have multiple sub products that have been released including KeepUp Pro (appointment reminders for small businesses), Branded Business Reminders (get  your own OEM version of KeepUp),  Club KeepUp (reminders for clubs and groups), Desktop Gadgets for Google,Yahoo & Vista, Facebook for KeepUp. Most recently we released our Birthday Wizard that makes it super easy to oraganize all your birthday reminders.

We have plans for even more features this year for KeepUp (stay tuned to the blog for updates).

We need your help to continue to grow KeepUp. Send us your feedback on what you like and what you dont like about our service. Also help keep KeepUp free by doing your shopping using our KeepUp deals. Not only will they save you money, they will help us keep our service free.

Organize your Birthdays Reminders Easily with our new Birthday Wizard

We just released our new birthday wizard, where you can add all your birthdays in one easy step, or you can request your friends & family enter their birthdays directly to your account by just entering their emails.

Dont have an account, create one for free in less than a minute and then click our "Birthday Wizard" tab to get started organizing all your birthdays.

KeepUp Founder Joel Nylund on NBC News

One of the KeepUp founders Joel Nylund was interviewed on NBC4 today, here is a link to the clip.

Remind your Friends with KeepUp for Facebook beta

Be the first to try our KeepUp for Facebook beta service. You can view/edit/create all your important to do's, now right in your Facebook world. You can also leverage the power of your Facebook network and assign your friends to do's. Have a friend or co-worker that always forgets stuff, now you can set reminders for them! If you have a Facebook account, you can follow this link and then either sign in to your existing KeepUp account, or create an account. If you like it, help us out and be the first to write a review. If you have suggestions, help us out and let us know, you can put them our our Facebook discussion board.

KeepUp Google Desktop Gadget is Available!

Today we made available the Google Desktop Gadget version of our KeepUp Widget. This gadget is very similar to our Yahoo Widget except it runs in the Google Desktop (which works on Windows and Mac). There are some small changes to the way things work.

To install the gadget, first make sure you have Google Desktop environment installed, if you dont, get it here and install it, then download the KeepUp Gadget  and save it to your local hard drive in a place where you can find it. Once you have saved it, double click on it to execute it (or click open on mac), Google Desktop should recognize the file and install it to your desktop. It should open the gadget on the login screen.

Enter your user and password and click login

Once logged in you will see your 7 most pending tasks that are not complete, if they are red, they are overdue, yellow due soon and green not due for a while.

One new feature of the Google gadget is you can click on any task and it will show you all the notes for that task, just click the title of a given task.

Your tasks will refresh automatically every hour, but if you want to manually refresh, you can right click over the gadget and select refresh.

You can also click "New Task" or "View Tasks" to open your default browser and automatically login to the KeepUp service.

We hope you enjoy this new feature, as always let us know if you have suggestions for improvements!

Create KeepUp Tasks from Voice with Jott

Now you can call a number and speak your task and have it added to your KeepUp task list. Just follow these steps to setup.

Setup
1.) Create your Jott account, by going to jott.com and sign up.
2.) Create your KeepUp link, by going to the Jott Links tab and scrolling down until you see the KeepUp Icon and click on the "Add link next to it. You will be taken to the KeepUp login page, login with your KeepUp login and password and you will be redirected back to the Jott Page (your account is now linked).

Now that your setup, to Jott yourself a task, just follow these 3 easy steps.

Jott a Task

1. Call 1-866-JOTT-123
2. When asked who you would like to Jott, say 'KeepUp'
3. After the beep, say your task name and when it's due and what category and entity its for. For example, you can say:

    "Change the Oil on February 5th 2008 for Car Pilot" - this will create a task with the due date of 2/5/08 and put in your Vehicle category and assign it to the entity Pilot (if you have one)

    or

    "Renew your  Passport" - this will create a task due today in the category "Other"

Remember to speak slowly and clearly and enjoy this great new feature!

KeepUp 1.7 Released

Yesterday at 4:30pm eastern we released version 1.7 of the KeepUp service. This release added several new important features & fixes:

Add Entity While Creating a Task - now you can create a Person, Vehicle, Auto, Pet or House while your creating a new task. Just select the "New" choice in the "Reminder For" drop down and enter the nickname of the entity in the text field.

Quickly Edit Entity & View Notes - now you can click on the entity link in the "MyTasks" section, which will take you to your profile and open that entity for editing and show you the notes for it.

Mini Calendars & Relevant Deals in Email Reminders - we have added a mini calendar, that has the due date for the task highlighted in orange and the date the reminder is sent, usually today highlighted in blue. We have added links to the relevant deals for the given task in the same email. We have also added the text from the task idea to the email so you can have immediate access to relevant information.  Please make sure you unblock images to get the full experience of our new emails reminders.

KeepUp Pro released - We have rolled out our newest product, KeepUp Pro, which will help businesses organize and send reminders for upcoming appointments and display their own brand image. If you're interested in this product, please contact support@gottakeepup.com. Our free trial will be ending soon, so don't wait! For those of you already on the list, we will contact you shortly to help you with the initial setup. Read more about KeepUp Business Services.

Issues & Fixes

We have fixed the following critical issues:

437 - We have added an activation warning t the top of every page for users that have not activated their accounts. Users must first activate their accounts before any alerts will be delivered.

537 - When updating a club event, there was no way to update the reminder date for all subscribers. We have now added the ability to override reminder date when editing the club event due date.

567 - When texting yourself a reminder, some users, depending on their timezone, had a due date 1 day off of the proper due date.