Alarm is a simple AppleScript application which can provide alerts after a specified amount of time has passed, or at a specific time. Its useful if you need to work on the computer but have to go and do something soon.

If you’re like me, its possible that you’ll get engrossed in what you’re doing and forget to go and check the soup or whatever. So, if you are like me, this is for you.

Alarm will put a text file on your desktop with the alarm time, just in case you forget what time you set it to go off.

When it does go off, the text file is automatically trashed, the reminder message stays on screen for 20 seconds, and Alarm quits itself straight away.