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I use google calendar and zoom for remote work, and I'm in a role with a lot of meetings. Embarrassingly, I'm showing up very late to a lot of them.

If I see a meeting coming up, I usually join early to avoid missing it. But if a meeting is running long into the next meeting, or if I forgot I had back-to-back meetings and go grab a snack or pick up a project, it can be 5-15 minutes before I notice I'm supposed to be there. I get notifications from my calendar in the top left of my screen, and sometimes coworkers remind me in slack, which also goes to a top left notification, but I'm effectively blind to these notifications when I'm working or talking to someone, so I'm looking for something that forces me to break focus.

I can't rely on audio being on or on having my phone on me. Ideally, I want a popup in the middle of my screen or a full screen takeover. Is there something I can run on my Mac that will do that for me?

What do you do to alert yourself when meetings are starting?

I have alerts in my google calendar already for 10 and 2 minutes before meetings, but in practice, I'm basically blind to alerts when I'm in meetings or in the zone.

I've asked people to ping me if I'm late, but it feels unprofessional of me, they wait longer than I'd like to reach out, and I sometimes even miss it when they do.

I join meetings as soon as I get out of the previous meeting, and that helps a lot. The failure mode then is if I have volume off and don't notice when the other parties arrive.