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Reminders and your calendar

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Writing "Thursday at 3" inside a thing is recognised as a time, and offered as a reminder.

Why you'd care

Opening a date picker is enough friction that most reminders never get set. Typing the time as part of the sentence costs nothing, because you were writing the sentence anyway.

What is understood

Plain phrasing: "tomorrow", "next Tuesday", "in 20 minutes", "Friday 9am", "the 14th", "tonight", "next month". Both typed and dictated text go through the same recognition, so speaking a date works too.

How eager it is

Three levels, and this is worth setting deliberately:

Ask is the right default because a thing that mentions a date is not always a thing that wants an alarm. "Met Sarah on Tuesday" should not schedule anything.

Keeping the words

Settings Calendar & Reminders Keep date in <i>thing</i> text decides whether the date stays in the sentence after the reminder is set. Keeping it reads naturally later. Removing it keeps lines short.

Going further

Future days get their own prompt. Writing into a day that has not happened yet can offer to set a reminder for that day. Settings Calendar & Reminders Prompt reminder for future days.

Detection is not the same as insertion. This turns words into a reminder. The dd and tt shortcuts do the opposite, inserting today's date as text. See date and time shortcuts.

Settings that change this

Tips

  • Leave it on Ask. Automatic is convenient right up until it schedules a reminder for a memory you were recording.
  • Write the time the way you would say it. Over-formal phrasing is recognised less reliably than plain speech.

If it's not working

Nothing was detected. The phrasing may be ambiguous. Adding a weekday or a time usually resolves it.

It set a reminder I did not want. Automatic mode is on. Switch it back to asking.