Portable reminder gadget (smartwatch?) recommendations?

Post date: 2021-06-19 17:19:11

I deal with WFH but pottering away from my laptop by setting iPhone alarms so I can arrive at, wrap up, and end my meetings (3-8 nonrecurring meetings/day, 1-4 alarms per meeting to help me facilitate others + protect my time, custom text reminding me alarm's pupose). I need something lighter than my phone + easier to setup. Is there a smartwatch (or other gadget: I only want this one feature and dislike having surveillance/text/calls/web/apps) that can do this for me?

Specific needs:
1. really easy to set up many alarms (3-20/day x for coming 5 day workweek), like either:
a. able to enter alarms for the whole coming workweek via computer and transfer to watch, OR
b. automatically creates alarms from Outlook or iPhone calendar meeting AND either allow rules to automatically create additional alarms for each meeting (5min before meeting, 5min before meetings ends, meeting end time; do not want to add these all to my calendar) OR make it easy to manually insert these custom alarms around the calendar-automated alarms

2. can use vibration rather than sound

3. as minimal as possible; don't want/need text/calls/web/apps nor their menu clutter; less worry about loss/theft than e.g. an Apple Smartwatch would be nice

4. if possible, avoid surveillance (no health/fitness or other data being shared anywhere, no camera/mic)

Non-smartwatch gadgets would be fine, too! Looked at children's, potty training, and Alzheimer-support smartwatches, but these seem limited to ~10 custom alarms no meeting topic text, with alarm setup much more difficult than current iPhone system. Thanks!

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