In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of "ordinary" people.
In the process, he examines questions of identity, fate, and circumstance: Why do we become the people that we become? How do we end up stuck in lives that we never wanted? Can we change the course of what seems inevitable?
With penetrating insight and a deep devotion to his characters, Dan Chaon explores the secret connections that irrevocably link them.
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Remind Me is available for free on the App Store.You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother's pet Doberman in 1997, another little boy disappears from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny summer morning in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home with the intention of giving her child up for adoption in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something better. That said, Remind Me is a great utility if you use Reminders and find yourself frustrated by the design of its task input system. A Today widget dedicated to fast task entry from wherever you are on your iPhone would also be a welcome addition to Remind Me. The existing presets are good ones, but depending on your personal schedule and habits, I expect being able to define custom task deadlines would be a welcome addition for many people. One thing I would like to see added to Remind Me is the ability to define the preset due dates for tasks myself. Each of these differences between Reminders and Remind Me is small by itself, but if you need to enter multiple tasks those small differences add up to much faster task entry. A fourth button lets you input a precise due date and time using the same date and time pickers that the Reminders app uses. Remind Me also includes preset due dates: one, six, and twenty-four hours in the future. To view the tasks you enter, you need to use the Reminders app. Remind Me can do this because it doesn’t display your tasks – it’s strictly for task entry. But the biggest time saver is that Remind Me includes the due date and time entry on the same screen you use to enter a reminder. Switching between task lists is as simple and quick as swiping left and right. Remind Me eliminates Reminders’ tedium in a few different ways. If you want to create a second task, you have to start the process all over again. That’s a lot of tapping to schedule one task. The info button takes you to a details screen, from which you can switch on ‘Remind me on a day’, tap on the ‘Alarm’ field, and set the date and time for your task using the date and time tumblers.
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To set up a task with a due date in Reminders, you have to pick a list by tapping on its card, tap the plus button to start a new reminder, type the task description, and then tap the little info button next to the reminder. Remind Me is a handy lightweight iPhone utility dedicated to fast Reminders task entry. Yet despite these benefits, Reminders can be tedious and frustrating when you want to enter a reminder with a due date. Reminders has some compelling features like iCloud syncing between iOS devices and with Macs, shared reminder lists, and the ability of some third-party apps like OmniFocus and 2Do to import reminders. Remind Me by Nick Leith is one of those apps borne out of frustration with a stock Apple app – in this case, Reminders.
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