Reminder To Call

Question

I often find myhself at the end of the day, or on the week end, thinking: I need to call X and make a appointment, but I can't now it is outside of office hours. Then I'll forget about it during the day, or I won't be able to find the phone number easily and I'll put it off.

What I would like is some kind of reminder system that has the ability to store a phone number and then I can just press a button to call them. Often this number won't be in my contacts as I won't expect to deal with them more than once.

Ideally there would be away to do this will Google Now.

Answer 1

Not exactly that way, but you might wish to take a look at Business Tasks:

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As the screenshot shows, you can put a contact as task, and then simply hit the phone symbol to place a call (calls up the dialer). Unfortunately, this seems to require the contact being in your contacts list. I've just tried to place a note with a phone number inside; wasn't "clickable". Though that might be worth a ping to the devs, which are quite responsive and might be adding that feature in some way.

Alternatively, you might wish to take a look at Number Saver. According to this answer it automatically suggests to call a number if the clipboard contains it. Until the Business Tasks devs put it in an update, a combination might do.

Cheap work-around might also be to put a contact shortcut on your homescreen. But again, this would require the person to be in your contacts list.

Finally, there's Clipboard Dialer:

This little tool enables you to extract all phone numbers from what ever text is in your clipboard. It will present a list of all numbers it finds giving you an easy way to call, SMS or create a new contact.

Answer 2

With Google Now just say, "google remind me to call 555-1234 at 2 pm"