Mindful is a free event reminder software combined with a mini calendar in a simple to use system tray application. Define your own events and/or select from a list of 72 predefined common events including many US, Canadian and Jewish holidays. Use Mindful to be reminded of appointments, anniversaries and any occasions, recurring or not, that you never want to miss.
Events can be simple such as anniversaries, which occur every year on the same day, or formulated such as a meeting that occurs every 3 months on the last Friday of the month. Mindful supports both simple and formulated events.
The age of a person (or event) can be included in the event description simply by adding the year of birth (or original event year) in square brackets into the event name. For example, if you set the name of an event to "John's [1967] Birthday", this item will appear as "John's 38th Birthday" in the list of events (assuming of course that the current year is 2005 and that John's birthday has not yet passed in the current year).
Mindful also supports one-time events that can be deleted automatically once passed or kept for future reference, according to your preference. Keeping a one-time event for future reference can be useful to remember when was the last time it occurred, such as when you had your last sight test.
A simple wizard helps you through the creation and modification of events so that you don't have to remember all of the possible options when you create or modify them.
When your list of events is refreshed (i.e. when the program starts or at the beginning of a new day), the most current event is automatically selected as the first visible item in the list. In order to make it easier to identify events of interest, items in your list of events are color-coded according to their point in time. Past events appear in blue, current day events appear in bold red, events due for notice appear in orange, and other future events appear in green.
Mindful loads automatically when you start your computer and then displays your list of events if at least one item in the list is due for notice (i.e. days left <= days notice). If no event in your list is due for notice, the program loads minimized. When minimized, the program remains in your system tray ready for you to use again whenever you need it. Positioning the mouse cursor over the program icon in the system tray will have your next upcoming event displayed in a hint. Simply left-click the program icon in the system tray to restore (i.e. display) your list of events.
If you leave your computer on overnight, Mindful updates your list of events automatically in the first minute of the new day and shows you a balloon hint above the system tray (Windows 2000 and XP only) to this effect so you can be aware of this change the next time that you look at your computer screen.
NOTE: If you have an older version of Mindful installed on your computer, simply install the new version in the same location. There is no need to uninstall the older version of Mindful in order to install the new one.
The complete installation instructions for Mindful can be found at http://www.felitec.com/mindful.html#install.
