Caring more by caring less

I am a firm believer in automating things in my life. Why try to remember things when you have machines to take care of them today. De-clutter your mind so that you can start focussing on new things daily.

I took a shortcut
I recently came across this problem where my wife was forgetting to take her medicines on days when there was too much office work on her head. The simplest way would have been to set an alarm on her phone that would remind her to do so. But we all know how many of us attend to alarms.

The thing is it needed a personal touch. And the best way was, if she heard it from her husband. Hence the need of the hour was for me to remind her to have medicines twice a day. But given that both of us are in the same profession, I was pretty sure I won’t be able to meet that promise for long.

And that is when I used iOS shortcuts and WhatsApp to solve our dilemma. iOS Shortcuts is the most powerful software ever made that automates things on your behalf without you requiring to give it permissions every time.

I made a shortcut that sends a WhatsApp message to wifey twice a day. Here is what it looks like.

The best part is she feels her husband takes such good care of her (which I do, mind you) by reminding her on time every day without missing. Now she takes her medicines on time, replies to me saying she has taken them, and loves me even more.