Gminder Adds Offline Reminders to Google Calendar This desktop utility offers quick access and extra features for your Google Calendar

Gminder is quick to set up. You provide your Google username and password and click a Download button, and it displays a list of your calendars. You can de-select any you do not want it to pull down.

From then on, you can click the app’s icon in the system tray to see your upcoming events in a small popup window. Gminder pulls down the next 31 days’ worth of events by default, and will check every 10 minutes for new events (you can change both settings if you would like).

Gminder will by default display a pop-up alert window and play a sound 15 minutes before each event. You can hit a Snooze button to snooze an event’s reminder for a set number of minutes, which is a neat feature not otherwise available for Google Calendar, but dealing with the pop-up can be a little clunky. It displays all of your upcoming events instead of just the one about which it is reminding you--and although you can click Dismiss to clear the selected event reminder, doing so does not make the window go away. You have to also click a Hide button.

You can bring up the same reminder pop-up window by double clicking the tray icon, and then click a new button to add a new event (which shows up on your online calendar), or Open to bring up an event in your browser.

Gminder is a nifty little tool for Google Calendar users. The ability to quickly check upcoming events without going to your browser, and being able to snooze on your reminders, more than outweighs a somewhat clunky reminder window.