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Last week, Sunrise officially announced that their calendar app will be removed from the app stores, and officially shut down the app and it will stop working all together on August 31st. This is truly sad news, especially because Sunrise was one of the first calendar apps to provide users with a better calendar experience. The very design oriented Sunrise team, was facing a challenging problem, and with a lot of attention to the details –  they managed to build a very beautiful and simplified calendar. As developers of a Calendar app ourselves, we truly appreciate the work and efforts the Sunrise team has done. Their product was unique and provided a great design and experience.

Calendar as a personal assistant

Calendars are an integral part of our lives. In the earliest times, human beings calculated time by observing the periods of light and darkness that alternated continuously. These days everyone is using a calendar, whether you are a busy individual, juggling a family with kids or just need to keep your head on top of things — a digital calendar is the solution. But there are several major problems with the current offering of calendars — most of them are just a digital representation of pen and paper. They are static, and don’t fit the current dynamic modern lifestyle. And usually — you need to work for your calendar and it doesn’t work for you. At times when people are overwhelmed with data, deal with way more things than they used to — there is a huge need for an assistant that will guide them throughout the day.

This is why we are focused on developing the best personal assistant experience. Since most of the data about time: like events, tasks and other related information relevant to the schedule, is based in calendars, we decided that building a personal assistant on top of a calendar would be the best way to save people time. As busy individuals ourselves we understand how demanding modern life is, and how difficult it is to juggle between your career and your family life. The concept behind 24me is to provide one place to manage your schedule, and to automatically complete your tasks and errands, and that sets 24me apart from other calendar apps.

As a team of geeks and designers, who think about every little element, we came up with 24me, and we have been named ‘App Store Best of 2014’ by Apple.

Sunrise user? You’re welcome to use 24me

If you’re using Sunrise, you’re probably looking for an alternative calendar app. There are many calendar apps out there, but we believe 24me provides the best alternative and we will explain why:

One place for all your calendars, Tasks, Notes and Personal Accounts

Your events, tasks, notes and real life accounts all fully synced and appear on your calendar. No need to use multiple apps to get a sense of what’s happening next. 24me provides a very simple and organized way for you to navigate throughout the day.

 

24me is also available for Apple Watch – and provides you with the best personal assistant experience on your wrist.

Syncs with all your calendars

24me integrates to Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Calendar, Apple iCal and many more. No need to put usernames and passwords. Just login and it’s all set up for you. 24me provides Day view, List View and Month view, to you can choose the best way to use it.

Automatically generates your Tasks and Reminders

Choose which accounts you would like to connect, and 24me will connect securely and remind you about upcoming bill payments from your service providers, special events of friends and family, financials, social networks, Reminders from your native Reminders app and many more.

 

Automatically completes Tasks and Errands

With a tap of a button you can: Pay bills, send gifts for events, post greetings, call, text and email.

Share Together

Shares events, tasks, reminders and notes with your family and friends with real time sync between all participants.

Smart Alerts

Be there on Time

Alerting you about the right time to leave for your meetings based on traffic conditions. Provides you with street view of the target destination, and opens your default navigation app with the right address.

Heads up for tomorrow 

Agenda of meetings and to-do’s planned for the next day.

Weather alerts 

Don’t forget to take your umbrella. We are also the only calendar app to provide long term weather outlook so you can plan ahead events knowing what would be the weather in a few months.

Upcoming Birthdays

Notifies you about birthdays of your dear friends, giving you the time to greet or send a gift.

 

Where do we go from here?

We are committed to building the best personal assistant experience and soon, we will introduce the new 24me – a concept that will take 24me a step further into the personal assistant experience and will boost people’s productivity to new amazing limits. 

 

Best,

the 24me team.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Super Women out there!

We at 24me know they are constantly running around to make sure that our lives are as easy as possible. With all the love they give us, it’s only fair that on this special day we give them a little something special in return.

Share your love to mom. Take a picture of your mom’s favorite recipe using 24me Notes, or any great moment taken with your mom which you can upload to your 24me Calendar. Share it with us using: “Celebrating #MothersDay with 24me”.

How To Do It:

1) Notes:

• Go to the ‘Notes’ screen by tapping on the top bar.

• Tap the “+” symbol located on the upper right corner .
• Write your note, add an image, and press ‘Done’.

2) Calendar:

• Switch from ‘Day View’ to ‘List View’ by tapping the menu bar on the left top. 

• Tap on the image icon located on the downward left corner.

• Choose the image from the gallery, position and rotate it, and press ‘Done’.

Make your mom feel like the most special person! Celebrating #MothersDay with 24me.

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.” ― Oscar Wilde

Identify with this quote? This is the right place for you! Come and learn how to fight one of the biggest problems that plagues every one of us.

The art of procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference of more urgent ones. It could even be doing more pleasurable things in place of less desirable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time or, the “last minute” before the deadline.

How does it affect our lives? And why is it one of the best ways to ensure failure, or at least sabotage our level of success? Research show that procrastination makes people feel weak, useless, and helpless. In addition, 1 in 5 people procrastinate so badly that it may be jeopardizing their jobs, their credit, their relationships and even their health. According to Pies Steel, a human resources professor at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, 95% of the population procrastinates at times, with 20% being chronic offenders. As it is shown, every one of us procrastinate at some point in our lives but we have some very good news! We can help you fight it and overcome it by adopting some simple steps. First of all, be honest, admit you have a problem and REALIZE that you procrastinate. The second step is to figure out WHY you procrastinate. The third step is where we come into the picture! Ready to overcome procrastination and get things done, not tomorrow, but today? 24me has the perfect solution waiting just for you!

With the new year knocking on our doors, everyone is making their own New Year’s resolution. Here is a great way to keep it: 24me’s “Procrastination Fighter” – a smart algorithm that fights procrastination by learning the user’s behavior, looking for open slots in the calendar, and kicking butt by sending a notification with the right time to complete overdue tasks. Procrastination Fighter is one of many features that will help you stay on top of things in 2016.

As one stop shop for daily life management, 24me offers one place to manage all your meetings, to-do’s, notes and personal accounts in one place. With advanced features for time management like recurring events, reminders, automatic tasks, syncing with personal accounts, and personalized notifications – 24me makes sure you will always be on top of things.

This year we wish you would do more of the things that makes you happy!

Happy New Year,

The 24me team.

 

We know you’ve been busy – life could be super hectic. Who wants to leave the house to get around and shop for gifts? That’s why we are here to help!

We’ve powered-up 24me‘s Gifts marketplace with some new instant gifts. Now you can easily access hundreds of gifts that can be sent by generating a new gift task in 24me. Gifts can be scheduled or sent immediately, no need to use shipping address – gifts are received once sent. 24me saves you the time for any last-minute gifts shopping.

You can send gifts from as little as $5.

Here is how do to it:

1. Tap on the Plus button to add a new item

2. Choose ‘Gift’ from the shortcut bar

3. Choose the recipient from your contacts or type in any name you’d like

4. A new gift task is added to your list with a gift button on its right side

5. Tapping on the gift button will take you to 24me‘s gifts marketplace

6. Choose a category and select any gift you’d like!

 

7. Schedule the gift to be sent whenever you want or immediately. Gifts are received the moment they are sent.

 

8. complete the transaction with your credit card or Paypal account.

9. Watch our 1-minute video to see how 24me gifts works in action!

10. Sit down and relax!

 

Happy Holidays!

The 24me team.

We’ve been working hard the past few weeks on building something exciting and big. And as always, we are keeping in mind how an ultimate personal assistant can help you with your daily routine. So It’s time today to tell you what we were up to!

We are announcing today two major updates for both our Android and our iPhone versions!  

New iPhone Version: Micro-Gifting, 3D Touch

We are happy to introduce today a new addition to our iPhone version –  24me: Micro-Gifting –  a new way to send beautiful gifts from your calendar. 

This beautiful gift market, available with a tap on your calendar, is powered by Jifiti, and available now in the U.S and will gradually roll out in other territories. It has over 100 gift items in each category from leading retailers. You will start noticing a gift button ? next to special events on your calendar. With only one tap, you can choose any gift you would like, and schedule when it will be sent. 24me will take care of the rest!

Click to watch the video: How 24me Micro-Gifting works

You can also add a gift task by simply marking it as a gift task, and assigning the relevant contact.

Here is a flow of adding a gift task:

Here is a Flow showing how to use 24me‘s gift button:

 

Another productivity booster added to this version is 3D touch: add a calendar event, task or note from the app icon on your home-screen. Capturing your stuff has never been so easy!

 

New Android Version With Full Calendar Support

Some exciting news to our friends with Android devices: We officially released today 24me 2.0 for Android  – adding a full calendar to 24me.

The new version of 24me merges a smart, predictive calendar with its automatic to-do list to produce one proactive management tool.

The new Android version of 24me includes:

• Integration with the user’s different calendars including Google Calendar, Outlook exchange and Yahoo calendar.
• One unified view of both meetings and tasks. Tasks with due date and time will be shown on the daily calendar.
• Worldwide links. Now Android users all over the world can link their providers and financials to 24me.
• Google maps integration
• Smart Alerts, which include automated daily agendas, missed call notifications, and weather alerts

Thank you for pushing us to make a better app, for getting involved and asking questions, for sending suggestions and helping in shaping 24me for what it is today.

We would be happy if you could leave your comments below.

Thank you!

The 24me team.

If you’re an investor/entrepreneur/speaker  heading DLD Tel Aviv this week, meeting with lots of people: from investors to partners, press and others – you are going to have a very busy week. DLD is a big conferences, which holds lots of opportunities. Doing it right could open the right doors for you, and on the other hand – it could be an overwhelming experience. 

On top of all those small little things you need to make sure you have (chargers, comfortable shoes and tons of business cards), you also need to capture everything that happens, make sure you are not missing any important event and in short – be on top of things. 

Here is how 24me  Smart Personal Assistant can help you make the most out of DLD Tel Aviv Conference:

24me Calendar

A LOT is going on. Investors that you have been in touch for long time and that you are finally going to meet face to face, potential partners that you would like to establish connections with, media and press and other people that could help you grow your startup. Meeting with bunch of of people in different locations of the conference, in different times, could be really hard. The people you are most likely want to meet with are usually packed with meetings and other commitments, and sometimes they even decide in the very last moment about other tempting venues. So how would you make it happen and meet with them?

First, put all meeting in 24me calendar, and share it with the person that you meeting with, and in this case – the sooner is better!  That’s how you are increasing the chances that the meeting will take place. Provide in the meeting invite all the data needed, from time that you are meeting, your mobile phone number and the place that you are planned to meet. Highlighted in the subject of the meeting your name and your company so there will always be a context.

 

In addition, make sure you put in 24me calendar all the important events you don’t want to miss including parties and other network events. If you are invite to events, RSVP so it would appear on your schedule .There are lots of distractions around, and 24me provides you with a personalized dashboard to navigate between all different events.

24me Tasks

So you are meeting with lots of interesting people, and lots of action items have taken: from information that need to be sent, to follow ups for next steps.

Track all the things you need to do in 24me Task Manager. Assign due dates for tasks so it will will keep you in the context of the conference. We also suggest to create a new label called ‘DLDTLV’, so will be easier for you to track and manage everything. If there are tasks you need to share with your team, 24me allows you to do so by sharing tasks with a group of people, giving you and your team the option to be fully synced.

         

The sooner you would accomplish all tasks and action items, the better you would perform in front of the people you’ve met with. There’s nothing more impressive than someone that is on top of things who tracks and delivers on time.

24me Notes

If you ever visited big conferences before, you are probably familiar with this feeling post the conference where there’s small mountain on your desk full of business cards, and now a new game comes to play – who is that person? why do I have this business card and what the hell have we spoken about? People tell us that in a typical conference they get between 20 to 120 business cards. But what’s the context of each?

 

Using 24me smart notes is perfect for this usecase. Take a screenshot of the Business card, with a short summary of the person you have just met, and all relevant information. Define a due date for this note, as if you just created a meeting summary that is actionable. Notes with due dates will appear on your calendar (colored in yellow). 24me notes is a great solution for the things you don’t want to forget.

Remember, the power is not only with attending and schmoozing with people, the best performing people are the ones who use the opportunities those kind of conferences provide, track and execute everything post conference, and follow up with people to create the best results for their businesses.

If you have great tips and advice, please share it in the comments below.

Thanks!

 

24me Smart Personal Assistant is available on the App Store and Google Play

24me for iPhone users

24me for Android users

Hi,

24me is one of the first apps available on Apple Watch, providing a full Personal Assistant experience on your wrist.

Designed by a team of user experience experts, we carefully crafted how to bring your most important information to the watch while you are on the go.

 

24me for Apple Watch is ready for Apple’s Watch launch today – April 24th. 

You are more than welcome to download it now.

 

Thank You, 

The 24me Team.

If you’re an entrepreneur heading to SXSW this week, meeting with tons of people: from investors to partners, press and others – you are going to have one of a hell busy week. SXSW is a massive conferences, which holds lots of opportunities. Doing it right could open the right doors for you, and on the other hand – it could be an overwhelming experience. 

On top of all those small little things you need to make sure you have (chargers, comfortable shoes and tons of business cards), you also need to capture everything that happens, make sure you are not missing any important event and in short – be on top of things. 

Here is how 24me  Smart Personal Assistant can help you make the most out of SXSW:

 

24me Calendar

A LOT is going on. Investors that you have been in touch for long time and that you are finally going to meet face to face, potential partners that you would like to establish connections with, media and press and other people that could help you grow your startup. Meeting with bunch of of people in different locations of the conference, in different times, could be really hard. The people you are most likely want to meet with are usually packed with meetings and other commitments, and sometimes they even decide in the very last moment about other tempting venues. So how would you make it happen and meet with them?

First, put all meeting in 24me calendar, and share it with the person that you meeting with, and in this case – the sooner is better!  That’s how you are increasing the chances that the meeting will take place. Provide in the meeting invite all the data needed, from time that you are meeting to the place that you are planned to meet. Highlighted in the subject of the meeting your name and your company so there will always be a context.

In addition, make sure you put in 24me calendar all the important events you don’t want to miss including parties and other network events. If you are invite to events, RSVP so it would appear on your schedule .There are lots of distractions around, and 24me provides you with a personalized dashboard to navigate between all different events.

 

24me Tasks

So you are meeting with lots of interesting people, and lots of action items have taken: from information that need to be sent, to follow ups for next steps.

Track all the things you need to do in 24me Task Manager. Assign due dates for tasks so it will will keep you in the context of the conference. We also suggest to create a new label called ‘SXSW’, so will be easier for you to track and manage everything. If there are tasks you need to share with your team, 24me allows you to do so by sharing tasks with a group of people, giving you and your team the option to be fully synced.

The sooner you would accomplish all tasks and action items, the better you would perform in front of the people you’ve met with. There’s nothing more impressive than someone that is on top of things who tracks and delivers on time.

 

24me Notes

If you ever visited big conferences before, you are probably familiar with this feeling post the conference where there’s small mountain on your desk full of business cards, and now a new game comes to play – who is that person? why do I have this business card and what the hell have we spoken about? People tell us that in a typical conference they get between 50 to a few hundreds of business cards. But what’s the context of each?

Using 24me smart notes is perfect for this usecase. Take a screenshot of the Business card, with a short summary of the person you have just met, and all relevant information. Define a due date for this note, as if you just created a meeting summary that is actionable. Notes with due dates will appear on your calendar (colored in yellow). 24me notes is a great solution for the things you don’t want to forget.

 

Remember, the power is not only with attending and schmoozing with people, the best performing people are the ones who use the opportunities those kind of conferences provide, track and execute everything post conference, and follow up with people to create the best results for their businesses.

 

If you have great tips and advice, please share it in the comments below.

Thanks!

 

24me Smart Personal Assistant is available on the App Store and Google Play

AppStore link

Google Play

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.” ― Oscar Wilde

Identify with this quote? This is the right place for you! Come and learn how to fight one of the biggest problems that plagues every one of us.

The art of procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference of more urgent ones. It could even be doing more pleasurable things in place of less desirable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time or, the “last minute” before the deadline.

How does it affect our lives? And why is it one of the best ways to ensure failure, or at least sabotage our level of success? Research show that procrastination makes people feel weak, useless, and helpless. In addition, 1 in 5 people procrastinate so badly that it may be jeopardizing their jobs, their credit, their relationships and even their health. According to Pies Steel, a human resources professor at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, 95% of the population procrastinates at times, with 20% being chronic offenders. As it is shown, every one of us procrastinate at some point in our lives but we have some very good news! We can help you fight it and overcome it by adopting some simple steps. First of all, be honest, admit you have a problem and REALIZE that you procrastinate. The second step is to figure out WHY you procrastinate. The third step is where we come into the picture! Ready to overcome procrastination and get things done, not tomorrow, but today? 24me has the perfect solution waiting just for you!

 

With the new year knocking on our doors, everyone is making their own New Year’s resolution. Here is a great way to keep it: 24me  is out with a New Year’s treat, “Procrastination Fighter” – a smart algorithm that fights procrastination by learning the user’s behavior, looking for open slots in the calendar, and kicking butt by sending a notification with the right time to complete overdue tasks. The new version offers another great feature for the new year:  “Personalized Calendar” –  customize your calendar with your own photos.

 

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” ― Karen Lamb

 So stop procrastinating and download 24me NOW!