Manual · Using tagwerk
Reminders
A notification before an appointment or a task with a time - with the C/ marker or for every line with a time, from every profile, with buttons in the notification and a sound of its own per profile on Android.
Where there are reminders
Reminders exist in the Android app - from Google Play and without Google - and in the Windows app from the Microsoft Store. The Linux app and the browser preview on the website have none. Reminders are part of tagwerk Pro.
They are switched on per device: Settings → Reminders → Remind me on this device. Switched on on the phone and on the computer, both remind you. What the section's settings do is in Settings.
Every profile reminds, not only the one that is open.
The C/ marker
A line with a time gets a reminder when it contains C/ - C for cue. After the slash you can say how long before:
19:00 Dentist C/
19:00 Dentist C/PT30M
- [ ] 14:00 Quote to @paul C/PT15M
09:00 Flight to Vienna C/PT2H| Marker | Reminds you |
|---|---|
C/ | at the time |
C/PT15M | 15 minutes before |
C/PT2H | 2 hours before |
C/PT1H30M | an hour and a half before |
C/P1D | a day before |
The length follows ISO 8601, as in recurrence: P for the length, T before hours and minutes. Upper and lower case are the same.
Without a time the marker has nothing to count back from, and an appointment that was called off reminds you of nothing. Words like C/C++, AC/DC or c/o are not a marker. In other editors C/PT30M stays plain text. The exact rule is in the format specification.
Setting it in the app
Outside the note the marker is not shown as text. The task list shows a bell beside the task, and the widget card shows the bell and the lead under its title, such as 15 min before. Widget rows and notifications leave it out.
You do not have to type the marker. The Edit time sheet - a tap on a time in the note, or Time in the toolbar - has a Reminder row, and so does the task form once the task has a time:
| Choice | Writes |
|---|---|
| None | no marker; one that was there is removed |
| At the time | C/ |
| 5 min before to 1 hour before | C/PT5M to C/PT1H |
| 1 day before | C/P1D |
A marker none of the choices says, such as C/PT45M, is shown as a choice of its own and stays as it is. With Every line with a time switched on for the line's kind, None is called As in settings: the line then reminds you with the lead time from the settings.
Under the choices the row says when this device will not remind you - Linux and the browser preview, without Pro, or with reminders switched off. The marker is written all the same; a phone the note reaches through your sync may act on it.
Every line with a time
Under Which lines you can choose Every line with a time instead of Only lines with C/. Then every line with a time reminds you, with the Lead time from the settings. A line with C/ keeps its own lead time.
Remind me of has Appointments and Tasks with a time separately. Tasks start switched off: for a task, the time usually means "from then on", not "be there on time".
Before you switch, the section shows how many reminders would be due in the next 14 days. In a notes folder with many times that is quickly a large number.
Recurring appointments remind you on every day they fall on, including days whose note does not exist yet.
What arrives (Android)
A reminder is a notification carrying the line's text. With more than one profile, the profile is named below it.
A task has three buttons, an appointment one:
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Done | Ticks the task off, in its own profile, without opening the app. |
| Later | Reminds you again in ten minutes. |
| In progress | Sets the task to [/]. |
A tap on the notification opens the same card as a tap on a row in the widget, with Later added. For an appointment the card offers Another time, This one is off and another day.
After a button the notification goes at once, and the widget shows that it is updating. Where it does not work out, the notification comes back and says why:
- The task has changed in the meantime. Tap to open it. - the line was edited after the reminder.
- Waiting for readings. Tap to enter them. - the task or a sub-task waits for a reading; the card asks for it.
- That did not work. Tap to open the task.
When you tick a task off in the app, in the widget or on another device, its notification goes by itself.
Sounds per profile (Android)
Android keeps two notification categories for every profile: Tasks and Appointments. In the app's Android settings you can give each a sound of its own or switch it off. Settings → Reminders → Choose sounds leads there. With a single profile the group is called Reminders; from the second profile on it carries the profile's name.
The categories exist as soon as reminders are switched on, so before the first reminder. When you delete a profile, its categories go with it.
What arrives (Windows)
On Windows a reminder is a Windows notification without buttons. A click opens tagwerk at the line, in the right profile. With more than one profile the notification names it.
When a reminder does not arrive
tagwerk is not an alarm clock. Settings → Reminders → Delivery says what the device does with a reminder:
- Allow notifications appears when notifications are switched off for tagwerk. Then no reminder arrives.
- Allow exact alarms appears on Android when exact alarms are not allowed. Then reminders may arrive a few minutes late.
- Battery saving and battery optimisation can delay or suppress reminders. If you rely on them, exclude tagwerk from battery optimisation in the Android settings.
- After Force stop in the Android settings, reminders only come back once you open tagwerk. After the phone restarts they come back by themselves.
- On Windows reminders only arrive while the computer is switched on and awake.
What has gone by is not made up for. A reminder up to 15 minutes late still arrives; a device that was off for longer does not announce the ones it missed.
What is stored
All the note holds is the marker. tagwerk writes nothing back into the line - no reminder shown, swiped away or put off. The schedule is worked out from the notes and recalculated after every change, a sync included. Stored on the device are only the settings and a Later until it has run out.