Repeat reminder: another cue for the same commitment

Choose the level of timing you need

“Compare lamps” might belong to next Monday without needing an exact hour. “Call the repair service” may need Monday at 10:00. Date-only, time-only, and date-plus-time schedules are supported for Tasks, Lists, Projects, and Areas; choose the information that matches the commitment.

Dates and times are independent of priority and GTD status. Selecting Scheduled in GTD does not fill the date for you. A date on a Project also does not mean that every Task inside it has received its own reminder.

Habits have their own reminder times, start date, schedule, and goal settings. Use the Habit editor when the reminder belongs to a tracked behavior rather than assuming a container’s schedule will configure the Habit.

Give one commitment more than one useful reminder

For “Submit the application”, select the intended day and turn on Time. Open the time controls, set 09:00, then choose Add time and set 15:00. You have one Task with two reminder times. Tasks, Lists, Projects, and Areas support up to five times per record.

Change each time in its picker. When several times are present, use the remove control beside a time to delete it. To remove time-based reminders altogether, turn off Time; keep the date if the work still belongs to that day. Check the schedule summary before saving.

You can also apply date and time suggestions from a title, then adjust the resulting fields. Reopen the editor to inspect the saved values. When the work is finished, complete the Task. Create another Task if the later time represents a different action.

Habits also support up to five reminder times, configured in their own editor. These are reminders to return to the same Habit; they do not create separate Habits or record progress. The Habit setup guide explains how to combine them with a schedule and goal.

Decide whether a reminder should be time-sensitive

Time-sensitive notification is an additional Pro option on iPhone, iPad, and Mac Catalyst. If you selected a date without a time, enabling this option adds a suggested reminder time. Check and change that time before saving so the alert matches your plan.

The option can allow delivery during a system Focus when your system settings permit time-sensitive notifications. Silent mode still applies. It is separate from Apple Critical Alerts. The native visionOS and Apple TV editors do not offer this delivery option.

If a reminder fails to arrive, inspect the saved schedule, Mement’s notification permission, the current system Focus, and its time-sensitive settings. The troubleshooting guide walks through those checks in order.

Choose what an alert reveals

Security notification hides details in alert previews. Ordinary editors show it after a date or time is set; Habit editors always show it in “Schedule”. “Biometric Lock” protects opening the record and is available without a schedule. Notifications still require a configured time or an enabled location reminder.

Removing date and time from an ordinary record hides notification options while retaining their settings. Habits keep all four circles visible in “Schedule”, with preferences independent of custom times and location. Review the settings before saving.

Respond when the notification arrives

Depending on its category, a delivered notification can offer completion or a later reminder, such as in an hour, in the morning, or tomorrow. Snooze changes the reminder without opening the details or marking the Task done. Tapping the later notification opens the record.

If the calendar action is enabled and calendar access is available, a currently running, named, non-all-day event can also offer a reminder after it ends. Mement uses that event’s end as context for the delay; this does not export the Task as a Calendar event.

Translate a routine into a rule

For a weekly report, create a Task, choose its first scheduled day and useful reminder time, then select a weekly rule. Presets also cover daily, weekdays, weekends, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly, every six months, and yearly repetition. Use Custom when the pattern needs more detail.

Tasks, Lists, Projects, and Areas support calendar repetition. A repeating List can group checks you perform again; a repeating Project or Area retains its contained structure. Choose the type that reflects what you will repeat, then inspect its children before applying a container-wide action.

You can also receive a recurrence suggestion from a Task’s title when no rule is selected. Applying it sets the proposed recurrence and a scheduling baseline. Review those values just as you would after entering the rule manually.

Use custom intervals and positions

Custom calendar rules support intervals in hours, days, weeks, months, and years. If the hourly choice is unavailable, check whether several reminder times are selected. For example, choose an interval of two weeks and select specific days, such as Monday and Thursday, or repeat a payment monthly on its intended day.

You can also choose a position within a larger calendar period and count from its beginning or end. For example, repeat on the last day of each month or on chosen days in a particular week of that month. The second week of a month and the second Monday of a month can fall on different dates; read the rule summary to check which one you selected.

In the Gregorian calendar, a rule for the 31st has no occurrence in a month without a 31st; the next valid month supplies the next matching date. The website’s recurrence example illustrates simple date patterns; the app’s custom editor also offers the richer rules described here.

An end date limits how far the repeated plan continues. For a temporary course or project, set that finish rather than leaving the series indefinite. Reopen the saved record to verify the interval, days of the week or day of the month, and ending condition.

Check the Solar or Lunar calendar mode before choosing the date. Solar is Gregorian and Lunar is Hebrew; their months and boundaries differ. The calendar guide explains the selector and Habit period rules in more detail.

Custom repeat hides the unit selector when there is only one choice. Direction is hidden for hours and Solar months; Lunar months retain From start/From end.

Let another Task’s event cue the reminder

Task editors also offer By item in custom recurrence. Choose whether another Task’s creation or completion should trigger the rule. You can narrow the event by text, date, tags, place name, priority, or, for completion, a particular source Task. All or Any controls how the active conditions combine.

For example, configure “Check for a reply” to respond when you complete the selected “Send the quote” Task. A matching event schedules a reminder for the existing active target Task. It does not create another Task or complete the follow-up for you. Use a calendar rule when the reminder should follow dates rather than another Task’s event.

Distinguish this occurrence from the series

A recurring Task appears as repeated work while remaining governed by its recurrence rule. Mark the work you have finished done, and read the recurrence-specific actions before deleting anything. Delete only occurrence and Delete all occurrences affect different amounts of work.

If one meeting is cancelled but future meetings remain, use the action for that occurrence instead of deleting the series. If the routine itself has ended, inspect the rule or choose the series-wide action that matches your intention. In a repeated container, also review its contained records because normal hierarchy actions can cascade.

Choose a Habit when you want to measure behavior

A repeated Task works for a deliverable such as “Send the weekly report”. A Habit works for behavior with a tracking goal and history, such as reading a target number of pages in a week or limiting daily caffeine.

Habits have their own schedule, goal period, entries, and reminders. You can use repeated Tasks and Habits together; a Task’s recurrence rule does not configure a Habit’s rhythm. After travelling, review important timed reminders and the relevant calendar instead of assuming every kind of schedule shifts identically.

The Habit editor also has recurrence presets and custom calendar rules, including selected days of the week and positions counted from the start or end of a period. Set these alongside the Habit’s goal period and up to five reminder times. Its setup guide walks through the controls and examples; the By item mode described above belongs to Task editors.