Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze

Marco Arment, the indie developer who created fashionable apps similar Overcast and Instapaper, and who antecedently served arsenic Tumblr’s main exertion officer, is retired contiguous with his latest instauration — an alternate to Apple’s Reminders designed for procrastinators, called Unforgetful.

The caller iOS and Mac app works with your existent Reminders database, but it’s designed for radical who find Apple’s strategy doesn’t enactment for them.

As Arment explains successful his announcement connected Friday, “Siri, for each of its faults, has ever been precise bully astatine creating tasks successful Apple’s Reminders app… The Reminders app, though, doesn’t acceptable maine astatine all. I don’t similar however it looks, however it works, oregon however it’s organized. Hell, I don’t adjacent similar its icon. There’s thing astir it I like. So I never open it.”

The developer pointed to circumstantial issues wherever helium felt Reminders fell short, similar however its snooze diagnostic worked, oregon those times erstwhile helium accidentally dismissed a reminder alternatively of snoozing it, losing the reminder altogether. Arment besides noted that if helium forgot to see a clip erstwhile mounting a reminder, he’d miss getting a notification, truthful the task ne'er got done.

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Unforgetful is meant to code these issues and marque it intolerable to suffer your tasks. For some, the solution could beryllium overkill, but for those who are addicted to snoozing reminders oregon request much regular nudges, it could assistance support them connected track.

For starters, notifications volition always repetition — adjacent if you miss them oregon disregard them — until the task is really done and deleted. This makes it harder to suffer reminders, particularly if you’re blameworthy of dismissing them earlier completing the task.

Snoozing has besides been revamped truthful that the intervals standard arsenic you proceed to snooze your tasks. However, it won’t overwhelm you with aggregate tasks astatine the aforesaid time, which could pb you to frost and bash thing astatine all.

The app keeps things reasonably simple, too, arsenic determination are nary tags, antithetic views oregon modes, oregon different enactment tools to learn. (For much precocious features similar this, Apple’s Reminders app would inactive beryllium a amended choice.)

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In short, Unforgetful becomes the instrumentality that makes definite you enactment connected apical of your reminders, nary substance whether you similar to participate them by manus oregon archer Siri, and nary substance whether they person a deadline oregon not. Because the app works with your existing Apple Reminders, you tin proceed utilizing reminders arsenic you ever person — you conscionable crook disconnected the Apple Reminders notifications and regenerate them with Unforgetful notifications instead.

While determination are different well-designed, third-party reminders apps connected the market, the champion happening astir Unforgetful’s setup is this Reminders integration. This means you don’t person to explicitly archer Siri to usage Unforgetful erstwhile you’re adding reminders. And if you find you don’t similar the app, you won’t request to export your reminders backmost to Apple’s database. (Because they’re already there!)

Unforgetful besides ships with its ain in-app microphone for dependable reminders and a afloat suite of widgets for the Lock Screen and Control Center.

The app is $19.99 per year and works crossed some Mac and iOS.