ACIM Alerts with Workbook
The app is simple to use. To begin, you select the lesson you are currently working on and either choose the time interval suggested in A Course in Miracles for the reminders, or a time interval that is most convenient to you. You can then choose to go to the Full Text of the ACIM Workbook lesson or you can go to the Reminder Text where you can review the affirmation provided within the lesson to be remembered during the day. If you wish, you can customize the wording of the reminder text. You select your beginning text only once. The app remembers which lesson you are currently working on and each time you return you will be presented with the same lesson. This allows you to review the current lesson, or move on to your next daily lesson. The complete Workbook section of A Course in Miracles, including Introductions and Reviews, can be accessed from the app. During the day, the shortened reminder text (the affirmation within the ACIM Workbook lesson to be used as the reminder that day) is presented when the reminder alert is sounded. You can choose what sound you’d like to hear for reminder, the time of day you wish the reminders to start, and the time of day you wish them to end.
About A Course in Miracles:
A Course in Miracles teaching is based on the practice of forgiveness as the key to inner peace and the remembrance of God. While the app contains the text of the complete "Workbook for Students" section from A Course in Miracles, it represents only part of the Course, a unique self-study metaphysical thought system. Published in one volume, "A Course in Miracles" consists of three separate sections: "Text," "Workbook for Students" and the "Manual for Teachers." The "Text" section of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) sets forth the theoretical concepts of the A Course in Miracles (ACIM) thought system and thus provides the necessary framework to clarify the meaning of the ACIM Workbook exercises. It is therefore important to undertake the lessons in this app in conjunction with the writings within A Course in Miracles.
A Course in Miracles was received in its entirety over a period of seven years by psychologist Dr. Helen Schucman through an inspired process she described as scribing. In 1975 the Foundation for Inner Peace, co-publisher of this app, was chosen by Dr. Schucman to be the publisher of the only original edition of A Course in Miracles.
The "Workbook for Students" section of A Course in Miracles contained in this app, includes 365 lessons which are designed to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. As stated in the Introduction to the Workbook section of A Course in Miracles: “The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation.” You are asked only to not undertake to do more than one exercise a day. You might however choose to remain with a particularly appealing lesson for more than one day.
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Reviews (28)
I love and appreciate being able to access each lesson easily and having both the full text and the reminder text. I've had this app for many years but it doesn't seem to have any updates. My reminder notifications only work some of the time. Today is set to every 30 minutes but it doesn't chime every 30. However I've had this app at least 7 years and I still use it anyway. What a blessing.
Been using this app for years and when it became pay, I had no problem coughing up the money. I do love the app, easy to use get to text or reminder, set the reminders for the day, see when the reminders will go off... It's a good app and used to work perfectly. I was no longer getting the full text. It was spotty once I upgraded to pay version, but then text stopped loading. I had to uninstall and reinstall and now it seems to be working Worth the money for me
This app is pretty much everything I need for studying the lessons of the course. Each morning I choose the next lesson. It is nice that this feature is manual, because I have been known to miss a daily lesson on occasion :). The reminders are also nice. I have picked the "ding" notification. It is the most unobtrusive yet easy to hear. Thanks for such a well designed app.
This app is alright but is NOT worth $6. It has some serious issues with the reminder alerts. They often don't work at all or only alert you when you open the app, but other days they work fine. It's very random. The reminder alerts are the main reason I bought this app so their lack of dependability is really disappointing. It's also disappointing that the reminder just says "ACIM Alerts: Click here for notification reminder" instead of the actual reminder text. Try a free version first!
Utterly pointless unfortunately. I don't like having sound alerts on my phone and I always keep it on battery saver. So trying to use this app under those circumstances doesn't achieve anything because 1. It won't work at all on battery saver 2. I have to turn on notifications with sounds to reminded otherwise there's not screen flash up or anything for me to see visually. I may as well just put a recurring alarm on my phone and access the lesson through shortcut. Sorry!
It works great for me. Loving it. I did notice that there is a problem with the order of the hours in the settings. To be specific setting the time from 9am to 12md is not possible as midday is set to military time 00:00 hours and so the alarms run till midnight. and if you try to set it from 9 to 12, that doesn't work either as 12 is set before nine in the list and so the system can't set the timers either. They come out blank or better said, empty. That is the only comment. Despite that, I love it. use it daily. Love the countdown feature. Great idea! Keep it up!!!!
Extremely handy and useful. No glitches. There are timers for the practice periods that correspond to the individual lessons. You can read the text of the day in full or just the short reminders. Worth investing in if you're serious about progressing further with the Course.
I have been using this app for about 10 days now and am finding it so useful and helpful. It is helping me practice the Course lessons more fully than I ever have before. I have done the lessons a full 3 times and have also started several times and not continued right to the end. I have always wished that something like this existed. I think it will help me complete the lessons, complete them more fully than ever before, and get more from them than I ever have before. Very grateful, thank you.
Integrating any practice into life is The Problem. The clarity that comes after sitting meditation gets lost without vigilance for the practice. This software, ACIM Alerts, provides those reminders and has been very useful, actually about perfect as I can't think of anything to suggest to make it better. I contacted support once and the tech was helpful, hanging with me until the phone was configured correctly; absolutely no snark from the tech. If you are ACIM student buy or at least try app
Its been great with helping me remember my practice throughout the day and the reminder text and count down make it streamlined. If I modify the alerts, I have to cancel and reset them or they will not work. But that's a minor issue, usually I have no problem.
Good outline of the lessons and I've never noticed a typo. I don't understand the alerts but really just use it for the text and that works well for me. 😀👍👌🙏🙋♂️ I'm Grateful for a tool to use as a experience the peace the words of the Course have brought me. This is a great portable version of the paper book.
amazing. so very helpful in keeping the practice. exactly what I needed. the only suggestion is that the countdown only goes for 2 minutes and often the practice periods are longer than that, perhaps if there was an option to set the timer to a custom length each time, that could be really helpful. Thank you!
When I bring up the lesson for the day, it come up in an editable form and the keyboard appears. Why? I don't want to exit the lesson text. Having to close the keyboard each time and ensure I don't accidentally add or delete text to a lesson is tedious. please correct. or give an option to view the lesson in a non-editable form UPDATE: I think i understand now why the lesson is editable. It's so i can add some personalization to the lesson if i desire. Love the App!
I am loving the reminders to practise the daily workbook lessons. I've tried setting timers on my mobile before but I would inevitably forget, and then finding the book would take time .... So much easier to have it all in one place. ❤
The only issue I have is the fact that when I set the alarm it doesn't always chime when it's supposed to. It seems to work when i open the app it will then chime from the last time it was supposed to chime.
The full text for each daily lesson is accessible. I read the lesson in the morning and then use the app to set a reminder for every hour or whatever to review the lesson again throughout the day. The app provides default text for each day's reminder which i can edit.
It's a very good and useful app, but wish that you were able to set more than one reminder in one day. In some lessons there are longer sessions and shorter sessions within the same day, and with this app you have to choose one or the other.
I had trouble at first, MAKE SURE YOUR PHONE SETTING HAVE NO BATTERY SAVER MODE ON, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUR REMINDER. I love this app, I am lazy with out it. Not only does it give me the reminder, it lets you set " a count down" for the amout of time you want to practice for. When I had trouble I emailed them and they got right back to me w help.
Content cannot be faulted obviously. Text and reminders are clear. I find it a great help and easy and simple to use. Don't seem to get the reminders on the hour but that maybe because I miss them.
This app is very useful as a reminder for the workbook excercises. As well, we can customize the text to suit our specific needs and we can reset it back to its original version.
A wonderful way for daily practice of the ACIM Workbook lessons. The alerts are a definite benefit as reminders for the early frequent practice periods. The app has been improved over the years so it is accurate and very functional.
Generally helpful. Timer settings more complex than they need to be. For example one has to cancel and reset timers for them to go into effect.
I love the app for its reminder capability, its containing the Lesson text, and, the reminder text itself can be customized. It meets all my needs!
Great reminder app! It's too bad the text that I add gets deleted once I leave that lesson. Otherwise, it's wonderful! I got over my first comment, this app has been my life line to practicing the Workbook lessons! Thank you!!
I like the concept, but I never got it to alert me. As recommended by the app, I do not have battery saver on. Never received an hourly reminder no matter how many settings I changed.
It needs alot of work. The alarm would be great as a reminder but doesn't work! I'm grateful that it exists but for a paid app it really is a very very poor experince.
I find the app essential to remembering my practice throughout the day. I had an iPad, this app had a feature where I could record my voice and play it back. I would like this app to have that feature for my Android.
I've been using this app for just a few weeks and I'm still getting clear on where some options are. Perhaps I should have read directions more fully. A friend is having difficulty figuring out how to set notifications up as well. I'm not certain I'm always hearing the alerts I set up. Still working it out and I absolutely love the way it is set up with full text, reminder text, and the options for the duration of my practice periods, and more. So grateful a friend recommended this to me.