I’d hesitate to pin it down to any particular feature set, but the following two features have been very useful to me:
Date-based alarm scheduling—I don’t want a feature-heavy calendar application running on my phone, so this has been useful.
Custom text for alarms—Useful for gym reminders; I can plan exercises for each day in advance, rather than deciding what to do in advance. (Again, I stay away from feature-heavy applications. I like lightweight.)
Day-based alarms, and multiple alarms, while trivial features on most smartphone alarm apps, are in fact quite useful, and weren’t present in my pre-smartphone phones. I have two alarms set for waking up, for example; the first tells me to down an energy drink (Xenadrine drink mix, supposedly for dieting but my favorite energy drink, or Redline energy drinks, are both awesome for this) or extra-large cup of coffee. Thirty minutes later, when the second alarm wakes me up, I wake up easily and without grogginess. (Alternatively, you can use an alarm application that wakes you up in the ideal part of your sleep cycle. That’s a bit… feature-rich for me, however.)
I suspect that the vast majority of coffee drinkers disagree with you, and thus your advice is probably inapplicable to most people there. I could be wrong, but you’re the first person I’ve ever met who considers 8-hour-old coffee to be a good thing.
You missed that I already acknowledged other people don’t share my tastes, which was the point about liking warm beer and soda. You can substitute in your own preferences, even if it’s a coffee pot set next to your alarm clock/phone scheduled to turn on shortly before your alarm goes off; it’s unnecessary to copy the specific implementation to get utility out of the general concept.
At that point I was merely being amusing; missing the point was rather the point.
What exactly is ‘advanced alarm functionality’ and how do you recommend using it?
I’d hesitate to pin it down to any particular feature set, but the following two features have been very useful to me:
Date-based alarm scheduling—I don’t want a feature-heavy calendar application running on my phone, so this has been useful.
Custom text for alarms—Useful for gym reminders; I can plan exercises for each day in advance, rather than deciding what to do in advance. (Again, I stay away from feature-heavy applications. I like lightweight.)
Day-based alarms, and multiple alarms, while trivial features on most smartphone alarm apps, are in fact quite useful, and weren’t present in my pre-smartphone phones. I have two alarms set for waking up, for example; the first tells me to down an energy drink (Xenadrine drink mix, supposedly for dieting but my favorite energy drink, or Redline energy drinks, are both awesome for this) or extra-large cup of coffee. Thirty minutes later, when the second alarm wakes me up, I wake up easily and without grogginess. (Alternatively, you can use an alarm application that wakes you up in the ideal part of your sleep cycle. That’s a bit… feature-rich for me, however.)
How do you have a cup of coffee ready to go before you wake up? I’d think it would be cold and unpleasant...
...cold and unpleasant? You mean perfect?
Yes, I like my coffee cold. I like my soda and beer warm, too. I’m just that kind of guy.
I suspect that the vast majority of coffee drinkers disagree with you, and thus your advice is probably inapplicable to most people there. I could be wrong, but you’re the first person I’ve ever met who considers 8-hour-old coffee to be a good thing.
8 hour old coffee is insufficiently aged; it has yet to achieve peak bitterness.
You missed the point...
You missed that I already acknowledged other people don’t share my tastes, which was the point about liking warm beer and soda. You can substitute in your own preferences, even if it’s a coffee pot set next to your alarm clock/phone scheduled to turn on shortly before your alarm goes off; it’s unnecessary to copy the specific implementation to get utility out of the general concept.
At that point I was merely being amusing; missing the point was rather the point.