Naggie is a brilliant application that uses the GPS in BlackBerry models that have them to let you set location based reminders. I love the idea - just think about your last trip to Lowe's when you bought everything BUT the item you went there for in the first place. That happens to me a lot.
Naggie lets you set a reminder that will fire when you get close to a certain location (like Lowe's for me). It won't let you forget to get light bulbs at Lowe's next time.
Naggie's nearing a 2.0 release and the developer dropped me a line asking for beta testers. If you're interested in beta testing the new release, leave a comment below and Andrew will be in touch. I did a review of the previous version here and I'm looking forward to putting this new release through the paces.
Want to know the specific paces I am planning to put Naggie through?
Here's a list:
editing/removing locations - you can now change location definitions and remove them.
location exports - you can email your locations to others to share them or as a backup mechanism.
naggiegrams - you (or others you deem worthy) can now send you a short email with a particular format, and setup a naggie for you. think of this as a "remote naggie" capability, or the ability to specify naggie reminders in an email (the Mrs. thinks this is a great feature - now she can send me naggies!)
better battery management - we've added some tricks to save a little battery power. this is still a major hardware issue, though, and one i hope to see solved on the 8703e.
hotkeys - hotkeys are available for few screens, such as the main reminder screen.
frequency-based auto sorting of your locations in the reminder screen.
a splash of color on the main naggie screen.
encryption - we've added encryption to the geocoded address lookups.
general reliability - we've done a lot more testing and made things generally much more stable.
1. Only works with the 7520 and 7100i (NEXTEL/TELUS).
Posted at 4:31PM on Sep 26th 2006 by Tom