How a Busy Father of 3 uses free reminder service to KeepUp with his life
I am one of the founders of KeepUp and I thought I would share how my family uses the KeepUp service to keep up with all of the things in our personal lives. I will give some examples in each category of how I use them:
Clubs
We created a private club called "Nylund Kids Sports" and invited our local family members to join it. Here we put in all the information about the games our 3 kids are involved in - times, locations, even links to Google maps for directions to get there. Now, none of the grandparents will be left wondering what is going on the next weekend! When we get a new schedule for games, my wife and I enter them in once and they get published to all the subscribers of our private club.
Events
For events, I picked all the important tasks that a husband should never forget - Valentines Day, Anniversary, and Mother's Day. I also added "Daylight Savings Time" reminders, as here in the US East Coast, we turn our clocks back and forward once a year. You don't want to forget this!
Personal
Birthdays - well, just in my family (extended) we have over 20 of these. The good news is once you get them in, you have them forever. I like to set the reminders for these to send me a text on the day of the birthday so I don't forget to call my loved ones (something I used to do all the time). I also like to track Dentist and Physical Exams (with 5 in the family, it is hard to remember all of them). KeepUp reminds me of these, and in addition to getting email and text reminders, I also can to see a history of when I did what. I always forget!
Home & Garden
This is my favorite KeepUp category and the reason I wanted to create this service in the first place. No one gives you a manual of the stuff you have to do in your house! The idea of putting out a list, sorted by popularity of household maintenance tasks was the driving concept of this service.
In my case, I am very bad at remembering to change filters, so my favorite 2 reminders here are the furnace & humidifier air filter change tasks. I also like how I can capture the make and model in the reminder and the links for buying those filters take me right where I need to go. Here is a picture of my 'Change furnace air filter' Reminder (right)
For home, I also hate digging through all my files to try to figure out the multitude of paint color in the house, or what model my dishwasher is, or any other information about items in my house. This is why we created KeepUp Notes (sample on left), where you can create a sticky note and attach it to your house, pet, car or person. In my case I put in a ton of sticky notes about my house, here is a picture of what my house notes looks like:
Pets
This category is pretty easy for us as we only have one pet, our Cat Looney, but its good to get a reminder to take him to his annual checkup.
Other
The main items we added in here were reminders to renew Grandmas Antivirus subscription and remember to make periodic backups of our home computers.
Bundles
I am a Roman Catholic and I have a hard time remembering the non Sunday holy days of obligation. Fortunately, there is a bundle for this in the bundles section. (I should mention we at KeepUp welcome all types of religious reminders. If you have any religious holidays or reminders you would like us to enter, just let us know we will gladly enter them, or you can create a custom reminder and check the 'share with the community')
At this point I have 55 tasks in my "My Tasks" section and most of them are recurring (I don't ever have to enter them again, just check them off when done.
I hope sharing how I use KeepUp will give you some ideas for yourself or give you enough information to try the service out. It's FREE!
