Applications I'd Liked To See - SMS timer

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Applications I'd Liked To See - SMS timer

Posted by Susan Marino on November 2, 2006 08:34 PM

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I'd like to see a timer that allows me to send SMS messages at some pre-determined time, and not just right away. In my quest to find what I want, I discovered there's software available for Nokia that allows SMS timing, but I couldn't find anything for Treos. How wrong is that?!?

I have a family with varying work schedules. I'm the only one that typically works from 8am-5pm. My husband has been going in somewhere around 3AM, and my daughter has to be on the job at 6AM. Since I go to work last, I'm normally up the latest.

Occasionally I have some minor message to pass on when they wake. I've left scraps of paper hanging here and there: sometimes they get them, and sometimes they don't. But they always get their text messages. (Okay, I’ll admit, Sprint is a little late on the delivery themselves, but for the most part it works great.)

The problem with texting at 11pm, when I think of it, is that it would wake the recipient…at which point my message wouldn't matter nearly as much as their getting even by waking me up nice and early to inform me they got my stupid message while they were sleeping.

There are other times I think it would be useful too. It would be nice to send a message to my daughter in school. She’s not allowed to send or receive calls or messages while school is in session, but I’m afraid I might forget if I don’t send the text while I’m thinking about it.

It could be helpful to send reminders of appointments to my family too. I keep the schedule of everyone’s appointments. The other members of my family don’t always remember to set or look at their schedules.

I do have my own little work-around in the meantime. I have a Gmail account for each family member to whom I send messages. Yahoo or some other calendar would probably work too. I just open their account and input the message I want and set a reminder to go off 5 minutes before the time I set. But it's cumbersome and my life is all about the easy that I know a Palm or Treo program could offer.

I throw my text on the mercy of Treo developers.

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Comments

November 2, 2006 09:55 PM {#}

Ramel says:

There is such an app... it's called SMS Scheduler...

http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Communications/SMS-Scheduler-13512.shtml

November 2, 2006 10:11 PM {#}

mikem says:

Would this work for you?

http://www.anpeco.com/NotifyThem.html

November 2, 2006 10:47 PM {#}

dstrimpopulos says:

Another cool application could be a mixed SMS Timer with a Birthday Reminder, to send messages to your relatives, coleagues or firiends a Happy Birhtday message to their cell phone..

November 3, 2006 12:28 AM {#}

shy_an says:

There is already such a software. It is called SMS Scheduler.

Google "Palm SMS Scheduler" and you will be able to find it.

I have been using it for quite a while and found it useful for the same reasons you mentioned. I am surprised that not mor epeople are using it.

November 3, 2006 01:52 AM {#}

tanin says:

Well, I there is a product available call SMSScheduler by Julian Radowsky. I have the program but can only be use 5 times :( and I don't know where to purchase it.

November 3, 2006 02:32 AM {#}

montais says:

There is a program called SMS scheduler. It works very well with my Treo650.

November 3, 2006 02:57 AM {#}

Homi Mulla says:

I would love to see a software for my treo-650 wherein I can send a BusinessCard thru messaging. can anyone help?
Homi Mulla
hmulla@vsnl.com

November 3, 2006 03:35 AM {#}

JackG058 says:

I'd vote for having an app like this, if it is priced reasonably. After all, wouldn't they mostly use the current SMS program, and just modify it to add this function?

Without the timer function, email is probably the best bet. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has a better idea at the present though.

Thanks for a great article!

November 3, 2006 08:40 AM {#}

gapleki says:

There is one app I found for this task:
Notify them
http://www.anpeco.com/NotifyThem.html

Hop this help.

Mike
www.orgismo.com

November 3, 2006 04:04 PM {#}

vlad92 says:

WOW!
I would love to put timer to SMS and emails...

November 3, 2006 04:47 PM {#}

huntsberry says:

Google calendar sends future SMS messages quite well. The google suite just keeps getting better. Now they even released a treo specific gmail app.

November 3, 2006 11:56 PM {#}

wlhagen says:

I have this freeware on my Treo and just LOVE it!!!

November 4, 2006 12:26 AM {#}

MFB says:

Try Sms scheduler or NotifyMe.

November 4, 2006 07:43 AM {#}

maceyr says:

You may want to check out Ms.Reminder at iPing

http://www.iping.com

Obviously, it's not a Palm program but more internet oriented but it can send out your reminders or whatever at a future time. They offer various pricing depending on the usage.

November 4, 2006 10:02 AM {#}

danOS says:

WORD THAT !
considering us Treo people have been expecting a SUPERphone (otherwise we'd have kept our nokia's) the very LEAST we should have is superFEATURES! PALM-OS is the OS I &many other experienced data-farmerz prefer obviously (FIST windoze) SO its lookin like i will have to learn C++ & write my own apps because TIMEDPROFILES (ala nokia 6250) is SORELY needed by me. ALSO, since gsm carriers have returned to the 'charge per 30second increment' greed scheme i NEED an app that will terminate a call (when requested/ default option) at 29seconds. THIS will not be supported by the parent company who are of cour$e totally inbedwith the carriers as evidenced by their lack of support/anti voip stance for wi-fi.

November 4, 2006 11:02 AM {#}

cmshroff says:

there's an application LAMPWORDS for treo 650. after installing the software on the treo and opening the file, it gives an error that "the lampwords word dtabase is missing or corrupt".

could some one explain or let me know how to install the same.

Thanks.

November 4, 2006 12:50 PM {#}

caper says:

I second that motion! I've thought about how nice and useful a timer for SMS would be many times.

November 5, 2006 01:28 PM {#}

cgquay1 says:

You can check this trial applciation at
http://www.anpeco.com/NotifyThem.html

November 5, 2006 05:05 PM {#}

tokomoto says:

This would be awesome! I was definitely looking for something like this and it's no where to be found, I would love to see this program!

November 5, 2006 10:59 PM {#}

mobakst says:

Check out NotifyThem at http://www.anpeco.com/NotifyThem.html It works for me.

November 6, 2006 03:13 PM {#}

Wakey2006 says:

Yeah I agree an application like this would be very useful.

November 7, 2006 04:43 AM {#}

tech_mafia says:

Have you tried SMS Scheduler? http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=95147. This little app does what it's supposed to do. It's not perfect (no cut & paste function; not able to select multiple recepients) but it does the trick.

November 9, 2006 10:16 PM {#}

generalzod says:

Look at the 4th post here for NotifyThem since the download link doesn't work at the url everyone is posting.

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=106703

May 23, 2007 09:26 AM {#}

ur_mail_is_stuffed says:

I'd like a 'virtual logging GPS' for the Treo650.

In Australia each cell advertises the suburb name on the screen of normal mobile phones.

Can the Treo 650 grab this data?
Write it to a logfile that I can review later to find out where I went and when I was there.

July 22, 2007 01:22 PM {#}

abktan says:

try PictureSMS by Suntzu Software.
the AutoSMS feature is what i believe you are looking for.

July 25, 2007 11:58 AM {#}

skyluc00mind says:

I simply stumbled on this subject of SMS scheduling. Judging from dates of the posts, it is a year long, on the other hand if it was solved it would not be here. The name of the applcation is Treo Messenger(do't confused with IM application, simular if not exact name)..with full combinations of scheduling the SMS to be send and as many as You want..But I have 700p which is CDMA I do't know about non CDMA devices.(but I doubt that there would be a problem) Now because I came across this thread by chance I can't give you the link.from top of my head..If this still interests anyone get in touch with me..Also I belive Fun SMS has that future (can't be sure now I uninstalled that app in 10min after I reolized that it is not for CDMA) the link for that, I belive is fun4palm.com (or .net maybe .de) I can verify all that if anyone is still interested, just knock on my door.

August 10, 2007 01:35 PM {#}

godschoice says:

TreoMsgr does this. With TreoMsgr, you can schedule messages for delivery in the future. From v4.5 onwards, TreoMsgr supports Groups Messaging. A Plug-in for 2day (see: www.shsh.com) is also included. The documentation may be outdated, but the app offers more than what the documentation indicates. Well worth the small price tag.