Top 10 ways to ensure you never miss another eye test
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To keep your eyes healthy, you should always ensure your prescription is up to date. When buying glasses online, you need a copy of your prescription - which must be less than two years old. Based on a recent Glasses Direct survey, we noticed that a few customers are having trouble remembering when to book an eye test to ensure their glasses prescription is up to date prior to buying online, so we put together a list of useful tips to help you remember.
Use a desktop or web based calendar - the easiest way to remember dates and important events. For those using office, Microsoft outlook is the most straightforward option, otherwise consider a 3rd party web based calendar such as Google Calendar.
Use a good old pen and paper dairy - I know, I was surprised as well to find out that some people still use it.
Send a future email - Futureme.org allows you to write an email and schedule it to be sent at a future date.
Use an RSS reminder - ReminderFeed is a free reminder service that delivers reminder messages right to your feed reader.
Free web-based to do list managers - services such as Remember the Milk supports sharing lists, email add of tasks, and SMS reminders.
Phone call alert - TelePixie provides the a reliable reminder call service. Whether you need a one-time reminder call or would like to schedule recurring calls, you are covered.
Use a Firefox extension - ReminderFox is an extension for Firefox and Thunderbird that displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. The target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (anniversaries, updating a prescription, etc) without having to run an entire calendar application.
Use a facebook application - although designed for birthday reminders, applications such as Birthday Alerts could be used to receive other important reminders.
SMS reminder - services such as Oh, don’t forget… and kwiry remind anyone about an event at a specific day and time.
Sticky notes - They’re not ideal as a primary means of long time management of tasks but if you must, put stickies on the front door when I need to remember to take something with me the next time I leave.
Let us know which method you find most useful.
This entry was posted on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 11:27 am by Ranand is filed under Eye Health, Glasses Direct. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
September 30th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Sticky notes on your computer are good. Macs come with Stickies already and you can set it to open when you turn on the comp, so it can always remind you. There is also a good freeware stickies program for PC. I did that to remind me of my last eye test, and I also stuck a note on the fridge because I am always at the fridge