gregklanderman wrote: > >>>>> On October 3, 2012 azinck3 <azinck3.5jviuo (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > >> I love my boom as an alarm clock, only big issue is the assumption > in > >> the alarm UI design that there are never days which are exceptions > to > >> my normal schedule, but in fact there are often multiple per week. > > > I'm curious what you mean by this. Can you elaborate? > > Certainly I love being able to have alarms for different days of the > week, etc. But if for example tomorrow I need to wake extra early > because I have an early meeting, how do you do that? I can edit the > existing alarm that is scheduled for tomorrow, but then I have to > remember to revert that change tomorrow night. I'd really like an > "Override alarm for tomorrow" in the menu so I can change the alarm > time for just the following day and which does not mess with my > regularly scheduled alarms. Ideally, when entering that menu, it > would default to the override if already set, and otherwise the > regularly scheduled alarm time. > > In the same vein, but lower impact, it would be nice to have a > vacation mode where you can say "I'm going away for N days", so you > don't have to remember to turn your alarms back on when you finally > arrive home after midnight from countless airline delays. > > Greg
Thanks for the details. Yeah, I've had some of the same thoughts myself but haven't totally sorted through in my mind what the best interface might be. I can imagine some very powerful functionality, but have a hard time imagining a simple enough interface to actually use it. FWIW, I usually don't edit any of my "regular" alarms, but rather just have an "extra" alarm sitting around that I edit for these purposes. So my current procedure to do an "override" of the next day's alarms is: Disable my regular alarm Edit the "extra" alarm's time to match my desired wake-up time for the next day Enable the "extra" alarm (which is set to not repeat, so it will only apply for one day) Then, the next night before I go to bed I only have to re-enable my regular alarm for everything to be back to normal. Could be better but it's not too bad. Another quick comment: you know you can hit the snooze button to see the time of the next scheduled alarm? I always hit this before going to bed as a quick sanity check. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96606 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
