the.com/reminder
Proof your brain outsourced memory to your phone and never looked back.
means Something that nudges you to remember a thing you'd otherwise forget — an alarm, a note, a sticky square of paper, a friend's well-timed text.
from From 'remind,' built from 're-' (again) plus 'mind' — literally to put back into the mind. 'Mind' itself traces to an old Germanic root tied to memory and thought, a cousin of the Latin 'mens' (as in 'mental'). The '-er' just turns the act into the thing that does it: a device, note, or person whose whole job is to make your mind do the remembering again.
- origin
- from remind, literally to mind again
- irony
- you set it, then ignore the notification anyway
- snooze button
- turns one reminder into infinite future regret
- oldest form
- a string tied around a finger