Desktop Reminder is a freeware program which gives you a powerful way to manage tasks and reminders using your computer. Set up reminders for repeated tasks (e.g. birthdays) or one off events, and you can set reminders to alert you hours or months ahead of time, which is cool if you want to avoid renewing long term subscriptions etc.

There’s also a cool missed and future tasks screen which you can use to manage your reminders pre and post event, and the overall interface is very easy to understand and use. Definitely something you should check out if you’re in the need for some computerised mothering.