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I remember when I just started working, I have a good memory and I will remember clearly what I have to do every day. But the longer you work, the worse your memory gets, and you tend to forget what you have to do every day. So much so that I often forget to punch in. So I decided to install a reminder app on my computer to remind me of things I had to do every day, such as clocking in, meeting, filing daily papers, etc. Ben thought it would be easy to find such a software online, but the result was a long search, not to register, is to install. Many of them also charge for voice reminders. So I decided to build my own software that was easy to use and free.

The implementation scheme is periodic reminder software + voice playback. The periodic reminder software will pop up a window in the lower right corner of the computer, and the pop-up content is the text message set by the computer. In order to avoid missing the text message, a voice playback function can be added to read the message content by voice.

Download OnTimer, a free timer reminder software

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OnTimer is a green version of the software. After downloading the compressed package and decompressing it, double-click ontimer.exe to execute it.

After opening, the interface is as follows:

First expand the left task type and select message prompt.

Text message prompt content can be added to this page. The two contents on the right are demo content, which can be modified by double-clicking directly.

Double-click the message on the right, the message editing box will pop up directly, the default is the system demo content, here to modify it as their own content.

The reminder time is 15:01:00 every day. When the time is up, a prompt box will pop up in the lower right corner of the system.

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The dialog box will be closed only after you manually click x in the upper right corner of the dialog box. Otherwise, the dialog box will continue to exist.

To continue adding reminders, right-click on the right and select Add.

And then the task type is going to be Message prompt

Then select the date and time of the alert and click OK, so that the text message alert is added.

Let’s start adding voice reminders. The software itself cannot play voice, but it can execute the specified path file.

Open the documentation for this software in the folder

As you can see, normal runs can directly execute executable files. In this way, the path of MP3 files to be played is directly added to the software, and when the time is up, the MP3 files will be executed directly. The default MP3 player will then play the voice.

In this case, you need to convert the text to an MP3 voice file. Open the online file to voice website

Enter the text to be converted and select the sound type.

Once set up, click to start composition.

At this point, the speech is synthesized, and you can play it first.

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Then click the three small dots on the right, select Download, you can download the voice to the local.

Once the voice file is ready, you can add the voice to the OnTimer software.

Select normal running in software task type, then right-click the single mouse in the right edit box, select Add, add a normal running task, set the date and time. Add the path to the voice file in the content input box, remember to add the full path. You can optionally fill in the remarks about this task in the remarks information. Once set up, click ok.

Then the voice broadcast will be added.

When the time is up, the voice will be played automatically.

So through this software plus a voice file, to achieve the text reminder and voice broadcast function, down the last step is to add this software to boot boot items inside, so that the computer boot, this software will automatically execute.

In the ontimer.exe folder, right-click the single mouse and select Send to Desktop shortcut.

Select Run from the Start menu

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Then type shell:startup

Then click ok to open the startup folder and drag the ontimer.exe shortcut on the desktop directly into the startup folder.

Then close the startup folder. After setting successfully, you can see the ontimer.exe file under the startup item in the Start menu.

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When you boot up, the software will run automatically. Set up text alerts and voice announcements will be automatically executed. Well, we’re done here.