Set reminders that help

A reminder should arrive when you can make a useful decision, not merely repeat a task you already know exists.

Add a reminder to a task

While adding a task, open Reminder. For a task with a time set, choose its start time, 10 minutes before, one hour before, or Pick time. For a task with no time set, choose Today evening, Tomorrow morning, or Pick time. Open an existing task to change its reminder. The Reminder row shows the current reminder, or Set a reminder when none is set. Select the row to use the same choices, or use Clear reminder. Changing a reminder replaces the task’s one active reminder; it does not add another. You can also cancel a reminder in Settings › Notifications using its Cancel control, but you cannot change its time there.

In Settings › Notifications, you can send Dayprints task reminders through the in-app Today surface, your account email, and best-effort Web Push on devices you deliberately register. A repeating task can carry its reminder forward to the next occurrence. Expect delivery around the selected time, not at an exact second.

If delivery does not go through

When a task reminder exhausts its delivery retries, it stays visible in Settings › Notifications instead of disappearing. Check that the reminder's channel is enabled, then choose Retry to schedule a replacement for around one minute from now. Choose Dismiss when you no longer need it. A retry schedules another attempt; it cannot guarantee that an email or Push service will accept or display it.

Choose the moment by purpose

• At the scheduled time: begin now.
• 10 minutes before: close the current activity and prepare.
• One hour before: gather materials or travel.
• Custom time: make an earlier decision.

Write enough context in the task title for the reminder to make sense alone.

Keep the set small

Free can have up to five task reminders waiting to fire at once; Plus can have up to 100. Each task can have one active reminder. Pending, processing, and retry-scheduled deliveries use this capacity; delivered, failed, and cancelled reminders do not, so space opens as reminders leave the queue.

More reminders are not automatically better. Remove prompts you repeatedly dismiss, and keep the ones that change what you do. If you reach the free limit while creating a task, you can save the task without its reminder.