When you want a nudge
Capturing a thought is only half of it. Sometimes you need the thing to come back and find you at a sensible hour.
Edmund isn’t a task manager and isn’t trying to be. But a note that says “ring the dentist” is no use sitting quietly in a project until you happen to scroll past it.
A reminder on a note
Open a note, hit the ••• menu, and set a reminder: this evening, tomorrow morning, or a date and time of your own. When it comes round, your phone tells you, and tapping the notification opens that note.
It’s a nudge, not a due date. Edmund won’t chase you about it, mark the note overdue, or start colouring things red. It pokes you once, at the time you asked for.
The daily Inbox nudge
Separately, Edmund can give you one gentle prod a day if notes are stacking up unconfirmed. Turn it on in Settings and pick a time that suits, ideally one where you’d actually be willing to spend a minute clearing them.
It stays quiet when the Inbox is clear, because a notification that fires whether or not there’s anything to do is a notification you learn to ignore.
Seeing them in Apple Reminders
If you live in Apple Reminders, Edmund can copy the reminders you set onto notes into a list of its own called Edmund Nudges, so they turn up alongside everything else you’re tracking. Switch it on in Settings, which is when your device asks for Reminders access.
A few things worth knowing about it. It’s one way: Edmund is in charge, so ticking one off in Apple Reminders doesn’t change the note. Each mirrored reminder carries a link straight back to its note. It uses its own list, so it never touches your existing ones. And because the list lives in your iCloud, all your devices share the one list rather than each making their own.
Switch it back off and Edmund stops writing new ones, but anything already sitting in the list stays there until you clear it out yourself. That’s deliberate, on the grounds that deleting things out of your Reminders app without being asked is not a good look for an app you’ve just told to stop.
Ticking a note off
Completing a note clears its reminder outright. No nudge, nothing greyed out and nothing left behind, and reopening the note doesn’t resurrect the old one. If it needs chasing again, set a new one.
The same goes for the mirror: complete the note and the copy in Apple Reminders is removed, because what was mirrored was a nudge, and the nudge is cancelled.
Reminders you route out
Don’t confuse the nudge with the destination. Setting a reminder is Edmund poking you. Routing a note to Apple Reminders is you deciding the note’s home is your reminders list, at which point it stops being an Edmund note you’re tracking. They’re different jobs and a note can have both.
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