You're online all day. Why not use the browser to remind you of things?

https://www.bestreminderapp.com

by siegers • 3 years ago

51 40 3 years ago

input_sh2• 3 years ago

Because every OS I can think of comes with a native app that does the same, while also integrating with whichever calendar I choose to throw its way? Because I need them on my phone as well?

jjbinx007• 3 years ago

My worry is if I install this extension and it looks ok now, who's to say it won't be compromised later on by some nefarious person who wants to put something nasty in it?

TechBro8615• 3 years ago

Thanks for the depressing reminder.

bemmu• 3 years ago

I love the domain name. Naming your side project “best <something>” must help SEO.

redder232• 3 years ago

This shit should be illegal. Fucking hate search results with "best" in it. They are the WORST, all just suckers who try to sell you shit. Nowadays probably AI generated "best 10 x for x" lists. Disgusting, you really need to avoid "best" and have some search term that gets content from people actually honestly reviewing and testing things.

laurent123456• 3 years ago

I wonder how well this kind of app sells. It seems so useless to me (plenty of other calendar apps are free and with more features) but I guess there's someone out there who may be interested in it.

mandark316• 3 years ago

Why would I ditch my Google/Outlook calendar for this reminder app?

giantandroids• 3 years ago

I honestly don't see the point of this (especially paid), when a browser based calendar with notifications enabled gets you all of this for free. I guess privacy is one consideration, but I already have a system there, I just use shortened words or prompts that only make sense to me.

forgotpwd16• 3 years ago

I've Remindoro installed which is exactly same thing, open source (https://github.com/palerdot/remindoro), and supports Firefox.

redder232• 3 years ago

Sorry there are a million apps that do this, I do not see the point of having it inside the browser and I for sure do not think tying to cache in on a "premium version" for a browser extension is appealing. Its rather appalling, so no thanks.

I never even heard of a "premium version" of a browser extension ever - well OK i have heard of commercial subscriptions that tie into extensions like Bitwarden but I do not need that, its more for organisations.

coffeedan2• 3 years ago

Tangential Counterpoint: I have no connection to this thing and also question its value, but…

At least on iOS, I think calendar reminders (both native and gcal) are fundamentally broken. Their notifications easily get lost in a sea of other notifications and are easily missed.

giancarlostoro• 3 years ago

The Outlook ones always get my attention, I think they make the phone vibrate, and they show up on my Apple Watch. But sometimes I do miss some pings, mainly if people join the call too early.

orev• 3 years ago

I would argue that it’s the “sea of other notifications” that’s the problem, and that can be easily fixed by going through the notifications settings and disabling them for anything less important than calendar reminders. Do you really need to be interrupted every time someone likes an Instagram post?

BeFlatXIII• 3 years ago

That takes too much effort. Defaults matter.

CharlesW• 3 years ago

Their notifications easily get lost in a sea of other notifications and are easily missed.

Time-sensitive notifications (iOS 15+) fixed this for me. They’re always delivered immediately and stay on the Lock Screen for an hour.

I can’t recall if Apple retroactively changed the default for Calendar and Reminders, or whether that’s something I had to change.

coffeedan2• 3 years ago

Yeah, but (I think?) be default they make the same notification sound as everything else and don’t vibrate. I need something else to distinguish them other than appearing differently on the Lock Screen. My phone is usually in my pocket.

It would also be nice if you could snooze them.

At this point if I really want to be alerted (leave now or you miss the train, etc) I set an alarm. But you can’t really do that any sooner than the day you want to be alerted because alarms don’t have dates (technically you can sort of do it with alarms on specific days of the week).

nativeit• 3 years ago

I have found the only way I can reliably get any notifications on iOS is to set them as “persistent” (ie-they remain on the screen until manually dismissed). Otherwise, they vanish into a pull-down screen that I have never become accustomed to routinely checking and is trivially easy to ignore as there are no status bar nags like on Android.

sdf4j• 3 years ago

as a recent iOS user with years of android muscle memory. it infuriates me that scrolling from the top opens the useless siri suggestions instead of the notifications screen. I can’t take it.

nicbou• 3 years ago

Calendar Alarm for Android fixed that for me.

lethologica• 3 years ago

The best reminder app I have ever used is a sticky note on my bathroom mirror.

penjelly• 3 years ago

fridge door is peak

somedude895• 3 years ago

Great name and domain. Someone said "branding is overrated, let's go all in on SEO."

fbhabbed• 3 years ago

- Because the browser may not always be open, although my computer definitely is

- Because I want the browser to browse, not to be an "everything" app

- Because I'd use Google or Outlook Calendars if I had to

MiddleEndian• 3 years ago

On the other hand, one of the big improvements Windows 10 offered me over Windows 7, is that I could disable all notifications, instead of just most balloon alerts.

socrates137• 3 years ago

If you’re a fan of Chrome-based browsers, you could also just use Vivaldi. They have a built-in email and calendar client. There you go, email and calendar integration into your web-browsing experience. If you’re going to do it, go all the way.

tennisflyi• 3 years ago

I think Todoist (and others) have Chrome extensions?

smcleod• 3 years ago

Ugh… why not not use my browser for apps. I don’t want to install extensions for all the things. I want to keep my browser to reading and downloading content as much as possible.

olig15• 3 years ago

I really don’t understand the point of this. If you’re in a browser all day, then you’re also in your browser all day so just use a free app (or even the built in calendar that most OS’s have.

There’s absolutely no way I’m ever going to enable notifications on my browser with how many garbage websites try to send notifications.

And on top of that, there’s a subscription for one of the most basic bits of software there is. The FAQ even says none of the data leaves your device, so there’s no ongoing server costs to cover.

I don’t get it.

c_o_n_v_e_x• 3 years ago

How about the browser notice that i'm rabbit holing into off-topic* websites? Off-topic being any websites don't seem to be related to my daily to do list.

foul• 3 years ago

I'm on Telegram all day and I use that to remind me of things, thank you.

You're online all day. Why not use the browser to remind you of things?

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