Skeduler

The better you manage your work and leisure time, the more chances there are for success. What’s more, the computer greatly helps you manage your activities, especially with all the applications that give you the possibility to set alarms with custom messages, just like Skeduler.

When running the application for the first time, you’re prompted by a message which asks to configure the UTC time offset, because for whatever reason, the system time can’t automatically be detected and used. In case you don’t really know your timezone specifications, you might end up modifying values until the interface clock matches the system one.

The main window is pretty compact, and is only used to display time, as well as any upcoming event you have in the scheduler. Most of its functions and setting are stored in a dedicated context menu, with options to change UTC offset again, whether to silent the alarm, start it minimized, have a message box popup, and test it out.

All alarms are stored in an organized table, with two pages containing up to 40 different slots for alarms. However, you might end up scratching your head until you can get one to work, because of the ambiguous creation and trigger process. For instance, alarms are not actually triggered by time, but by the order they’re in the table, so you need to work this out.

The list of alarms can be saved to file, with an additional option to load an existing one. A message can also be written down in case you chose to have a popup brought up. Keep in mind that input time needs to be written in military style, meaning a single number out of four characters, without any symbols to tell hours from minutes.

To sum it up, Skeduler doesn’t come with anything new in the game of time planning, and what it does bring is rather ambiguous, and can take more time to figure things out that actually helping you speed up the process. Setting up an alarm can be an infuriating process, and you always need to keep it around and an eye on it, because chances are you’re not going to receive any notifications.