Alarm Clock Help

Action Bar

The Action Bar contains the main links to the Alarm Clock, with the Next Alarm message above it.  If no alarms are set the Next Alarm message will read No Alarms Set.  To it's right is the Ping Alarm message if set.  The x to the right of the ping alarm lets you delete it.  An x keypress or a Backspace will also delete the ping alarm.

Clock Display

You can set how you want the clock to display the time.  These are adjusted via the Basic Settings, accessible by clicking the Settings icon under the alarm clock time display.

Alarms Schedule

Set from none to 25 separate alarms throughtout the day, then save your setup for use each day. Each alarm time you can set the time, display color, alarm clock title, the alarm sound and the number of times to repeat sound and the volume.  These are set via the Alarms Schedule, accessible by clicking the button under the time display.

To set an alarm just enter the time and select a sound.  That is pretty much it.  The other fields allow more to be set for the alarm, but you don't have to set them.  As you set an alarm, the table grows.  You don't have to save as everything is saved for you.  If your alarms get out of order you can use the Clean Up Alarms link to fix that.  Alarm clock will run fine with the alarms out of order.  Here's what each field is for . . .

Ping Me Alarm

Quick reminder without editing your alarm schedule

A Ping Me alarm is a quick one-time reminder you create instantly without opening the alarm schedule.  Need a reminder in 20 minutes?  Type 20 and the alarm clock pings you in 20 minutes.  They are for quick reminders during your day, such as:

• Check oven in 5 minutes
• Leave for meeting in 12 minutes
• Take a break in 45 minutes
• Follow up on boss email in 90 minutes
• Check upload in 7 minutes
• Wrap up work in 2 hours

Unlike regular alarms in your alarm schedule, Ping Me alarms are temporary.  Once they ring, they are automatically removed.

How to Set a Ping Me Alarm

You can create a Ping Me alarm in several ways.  You can click the icon and then follow the directions in the Ping Me popup.  Once you understand how they work, the faster way is to just type.

The alarm clock listens to what you type.  After a short pause, it tries to understand your request and automatically creates the Ping Me alarm for you – no buttons or menus necessary.  When a ping request is understood:  A subtle tick sound confirms it was accepted and the ping time appears below the clock display.

If you type a time without am or pm, the alarm clock chooses the next future occurrence of that clock time.

Changing or Removing a Ping

Only one Ping Me alarm can exist at a time.  Creating a new ping replaces the current one.  To remove the current ping alarm . . .

• Press X or Backspace
• Click the remove icon

Ping Alarm Sound

By default, the Ping Me alarm plays the Bell sound 3 times at 80% volume.  You can customize the ping alarm sound in Advanced Settings by adjusting Ping Sound, Ping Volume, and Ping Cycles.  Advanced users can also link the ping alarm to sound files accessible on the web.

Ping Me alarms are intentionally simple – a quick "I just need a reminder now" feature.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The alarm clock has a few features that are linked to keyboard shortcuts . . .

• Stop SoundEscape
• Show SecondsKeyS
• Cancel PingBackspace KeyX

Keyboard shortcuts are just a faster way to accomplish things.  Press the Escape key and whatever alarm clock sound is playing will stop.  The Backspace or X key will remove the pending Ping Me alarm.  The S key will toggle seconds in the time display.

These shortcuts can be removed or set to other keys in Advanced Settings.  You get there by first clicking the Settings icon under the clock time display, and then clicking the Advanced Settings link in the upper right corner of the Basic Settings.  You can assign multiple keyboard keys to a shortcut.

Options

You have a couple controls over how the alarm clock is resized.  You can set these in the Basic Settings area by clicking the Settings icon under the time display.

Web Alarm Sounds

In addition to the Sounds and Tunes we make available, you can use sound files accessible on the web as your alarms, or for tunes to loop during a time period.  You would set these in the Alarms Schedule accessible by the button under the time display.

In the above example we linked the lunch alarm to sound the cuban piano piece hosted on our website's demo folder.  You set this by selecting External Audio Link as the Alarm option, and you'll be presented with a popup to enter the sound file link.  Once you click Save the sound file link will show under the alarm row.  You can click link to hear the sound or click the icon to edit or delete the link.

Here are two sound files hosted on our website that you can link to to see how this works . . .

https://timer123.com/demo/circus.mp3
https://timer123.com/demo/cuban-piano.mp3

Note: The site hosting the sound file must allow the sound to be used on other websites.  This is controlled by a setting called a 'CORS header' (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing).  If it's not enabled, the sound likely will not play in the alarm clock even though the link works in your browser.

Alarm Clock Title

Adjust the alarm clock title to your liking.  You can make these adjustments in the Basic Settings area by clicking the Settings icon under the clock time display.

Advanced Settings

You get to the Advanced Settings by first clicking the Settings icon under the time display.  Then click the Advanced Settings link in the upper right corner of the Basic Settings.  You can switch back and forth between the Basic and Advanced settings.

Click a row to edit that setting.  Edited settings are indicated by a checkmark next to the edit icon.  Advanced Settings not on available on the Basic Settings view include:

• Show Next Alarm
• Alarm Default Volume/Cycles
• Ping Sound/Volume/Cycles
• Ping Received
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Time Display Size
• Title Size
• Background Image
• Control Colors

Default Settings

You can restore your alarm clock to it's default settings by clicking the Settings icon under the clock time display.  Then clicking the Restore Default Settings link.  You will be asked to confirm this action.

To see beforehand your current alarm clock settings, click the Create Link icon under the clock time display.

Saving Alarm Clock Setup

When you change the Alarms Schedule or the title color, these are all setting changes, and are all stored locally by your browser.  If you are the only user, and you only need one alarm clock, then there is no need to save anything, as your browser is already doing this for you.

But, when you or your AI agent discovers how useful our alarm clocks are, you may then want a Lab Alarm Clock, and a Production Alarm CLock, and then saving your alarm clock setup might become important.  You can save your alarm clock configuration in a link with the alarm clock setup as part of the link.  Then you can set up different alarm clocks, save the links, and when you later click on a saved link, the alarm clock is exactly as you saved it.  Each time you click a saved alarm clock link, the alarm clock switches to that set of options.  Save the link, click the link.  That is all you have to do.

To bring this up, click on the Create Link icon under the alarm clock time display.  Easy!

Sharing Alarm Clock Setup

Once you set up the alarm clock you can share your setup with anyone you want.  See the above section on Saving Alarm Clock Setup.  Anyone who clicks on your alarm clock link will see the alarm clock in their browser, just as you configured it.  When they click your alarm clock link they will see a popup similar to this:

If they already use this Timer123 alarm clock, they can cancel and save their current alarm clock setup if they want, or they can just click Apply to start using the alarm clock you shared.

Nothing to download.  Nothing to configure.  Nothing to slow you down.

Custom Look & Feel

Our alarm clocks let you control 40+ different visual and functional aspects through the Basic and Advanced settings area.  Advanced Settings lists out all the 40+ settings you can adjust.

Once you have set up an alarm clock for your needs, you can save your configuration in a link for later use or to share with others.

Our Steampunk Alarm Clock is an example of what's possible . . .

https://timer123.com/steampunk-alarm-clock.html

Multiple Alarm Clocks

Can you have multiple alarm clocks at the same time?  Kind of, but we're not sure it makes sense to have two alarm clocks each with 25 alarms running at the same time.  Our alarm clocks store their alarms and settings in shared local browser storage.  If you have alarm clocks in two browser windows or tabs, the alarm clock that makes changes last wins.  So, not a good experience for users.  For multiple alarm clocks, we have two suggestions:

1. Use different browsers like:  Chrome, Brave, Firefox, and Edge  Since each of these browsers use local storage separate from each other, the same alarm clock will play nice in separate branded browsers, and each would have alarms separate from each other.
2. If you instead want different alarm setups, but you are only going to run one alarm setup at a time, then create different alarm clocks and save the link as a bookmark, like Monday Alarms, Tuesday Alarms, etc., then just click on the link for the alarm clock congifuration you want and the link will set the alarm clock to what you saved.