Years ago I used a terrific little calendar utility called ”Remember?”. Remember? began life in 1988 (not a typo) as a “Desk Accessory” way back when there were such things. It has been regularly updated by its author, Dave Warker, and recently made it to Lion.

[Remember?] reminds you about important events in your life when you start up your Mac and while you work. Features flexible specification for repeating events, extensive control over appearance and minimal memory requirements.

In yet another fit of nostalgia I installed Remember? and started entering events. Now I can’t stop. Remember? thinks like I do. When that happens I can ignore a great many shortcomings, such as…

• Aging interface. Some will scoff at Remember?’s basic and aging UI. I like to think of it as retro.
• No sync. It would terrific if Remember? could sync easily with iCal, if only to get alerts on my iPhone. There is a script that comes with Remember? that will export events to iCal, but it’s one-way and repeated imports cause too much duplicate event trouble.

I have a profound dislike of iCal and Google Calendars, so none of these cause me too much grief.

With tools like Fantastical available, there may not seem to be a need for something like Remember?, but Remember?’s unique way of dealing with recording and displaying events make it worth a look. I kind of love it.