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Persistent reminders that stay until task is completed or snoozed

Features & Improvements Request

Make reminders persistent and hard to ignore on phone and desktop instead of regular Android notifications that get buried in the notification shade and are easily forgotten. The whole life is being moved into Akiflow, but the biggest problem is the reminders. The reminder should stay in the user's face until the task is manually marked as complete or snoozed, with:

  • Vibration and sound that keep going until I react

  • A notification (or even a full-screen alert) that I can't just swipe away or hide

  • The same behavior on desktop, not just on the phone

Everyone these days seems to have ADHD or some kind of attention issue; keeping track of hundreds of tasks a day is hard enough, and it is even harder when the app does not really remind that something has to be done.

TickTick is cited as a good example of how this should work, and it is the only app whose reminders actually work, which is why every new productivity app ends up connected to TickTick anyway.

Posted by Gábor ·
Status: Future3 comments

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  • Dodge

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    Oct 14

    Persistent, audible alarms in some tasks (esp over iOS) would be a huge help. It’s easy to miss a reminder, and sometimes it really matters. It will help all of us who’d like to use Akiflow as their main calendar (which helps offset the cost) make the transition!

  • An Anonymous User

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    Oct 12

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    Merged request

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    5 votes

    Alarms instead of normal notifications

    I would like to see a feature implemented to the android app that REALLY notifies me that a task has ended and/or one is starting. I don't always hear the notification on my phone to know if a task has ended or started which means I find myself easily ticking over the allocated time on a task. Maybe an in built alarm that you manually need to dismiss would help me switch tasks on the go easier.

    • [Deleted User]

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      Nov 20, 2023

      Hi Harris, do you receive the notification for the next task starting? Thank you!