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ranbarton

This has been suggested over and over for 23 months. There are various hacks and workarounds, but it's such an obvious omission from RTM, which is for the most part so well thought out. I think it's time to fix this.

E.g., http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/264/

Posted at 1:32am on October 15, 2007

I agree, i have been using RTM for a relatively short time, and was really surprised that I wasn't able to do this.

Posted at 1:46pm on October 15, 2007

remindmenow

I can't use RTM until this is fixed for the reason I stated.

Posted at 8:20pm on October 15, 2007

MOST to-do list managers have only a general reminder for tasks. Maybe there are some calendar apps that do have reminders for individual events , but its pretty rare.
Remindmenow, I'd think a long and hard before making this the deal maker. you might be back here before you know it.

Posted at 11:56pm on October 15, 2007

remindmenow

I absolutely can't live with it the way it is carib.

Posted at 10:18am on October 20, 2007

Well.... the best I can do is to suggest a few simple workarounds. Like i said, most to do list managers do the one size fits all reminder(some don't do reminders at all), so I think you're stuck.
Workarounds
1. Use Google Calendar or another calendar app for birthdays/anniversaries, (they have individual reminders), RTM for the rest of your tasks.

2. The two reminder solution. If X's birthday is December 1, set a reminder for November 16 " Get ready for X's birthday", then set another reminder for December 1, " Go to X's Birthday" Its pretty simple to set the second reminder -you don't even have to lift your hands from the keyboard. To use a cliche, even a caveman could do it :-).
3. Set one reminder for November 16 , titled "get ready for X's birthday on December 1". When the reminder pops up on November 16, you can always just reset the reminder for December 1.

Hope this helps.

Posted at 3:04am on October 21, 2007

I'd even jump to pro for more fine-grained reminder control, e.g.
- Priority X and above goes to my cell phone, otherwise skype me
- List Y has weekday-only reminders
- Event Z has reminders by cell and skype every 6 hours

Posted at 4:18pm on November 9, 2007

There should be a default reminder which you can set in "Settings".

These reminders (email, sms, skype etc) should show up on every task. If you want the default, just leave it... or you can change it for this task. And also be able to choose not to be reminded at all...

Posted at 10:58am on December 17, 2007

fabien.meurillon

I would also get a Pro Account for this ability...

Posted at 4:42pm on December 17, 2007

fabien.meurillon

I mean, this feature should be in the free account, but then RTM would give me enough services to justify the bought.

Posted at 4:45pm on December 17, 2007

This is very very important. I used to use Outlook for task management, but switch to RTM, expecting similar features. Having a global setting for reminders is unacceptable. Some things need 2 hour reminders, some need 2 day reminders, some need 2 week reminders, etc.

Posted at 9:43pm on December 21, 2007

barchas

i also was very surprised that this ability was not in RTM. I know nothing about the backend (but i am a webapp developer), but it would seem to me that no matter how convoluted the Database is, there would be a simple way to enable this.

Give us a box to enter how much time prior we want to get a reminder, and on the backend, just dupe that task and hide it by ignoring anything that has a parent task. So obviously, a task would need a new db column of ParentTaskID.
If the parent task gets deleted, just delete any tasks with a matchin parenttaskid. Don't display tasks with parentIDs. if the parent task changes, trickle the change down to the child task.

Of course that may not be ideal, but it would work and give probably every single user of RTM a warm fuzzy.

Posted at 5:38pm on January 18, 2008

dmd1272

yeah, c'mon again guys another thread, as a pro user, I believe more options are need.

Posted at 3:54am on January 19, 2008

becky.holt

I agree. I want to be reminded a week before birthdays and twenty minutes before appointments. A global reminder doesn't help me accomplish this. Please change this.

Posted at 4:50pm on January 19, 2008

wojtunio

I hope someone is working on this feature. I am currently testing out whether RTM will be my main task manager and this is a critical feature to have.

Posted at 8:03pm on April 11, 2008

How about a "bugging" or "reminder snoozing" feature.

"Call Bob Smith at Thursday 11AM. Remind: 15 minutes before. Bug: every 5 minutes."

This way, at 10:45AM I get a reminder. And if I didn't pay attention to it, I could get a second reminder 5 minutes later and continue to get reminder every 5 minutes until the task is marked complete or the item due date/time is moved.

Posted at 5:41am on April 15, 2008

I would even be happy if I could just set reminders for all task items within a single list (or smartlist).

Then I could tag an item with something like ".alarm," and then make a smartlist that displays .alarm, and then have reminders sms'ed to me from that list.

-Warr

Posted at 6:31pm on April 15, 2008

OMG. I'm migrating from Outlook to another application (per my company's edict) and they don't have a task mgmt tool. I read up on RTM and saw that it had so much that I installed it right away.

Never in a million years did I think that it would be so feature rich yet omit such a basic task management function.

Hard for me to justify adding this tool w/o such a glaring omission. I'll use Notepad and unsubscribing.

Posted at 9:29pm on April 16, 2008

Ok guys, we REALLY need this tool BADLY

Posted at 2:55am on April 27, 2008

Yes, please add!

It's the first thing I tried to do (for example, email birthdays), but there is no way to do it. I'd even upgrade to Pro if it had it!!

Please, at least put some sort of response on the FAQ!

Posted at 11:02pm on May 5, 2008

I just created my account, was surprised that you can't set individual reminders on the tasks. Would be really great if it was implemented.

Posted at 4:05pm on May 25, 2008

I agree. This would be useful.

Consider a contract. What I want to see is the contract end date, but I also need a reminder in advance to make sure I renew or cancel.

Posted at 6:04pm on May 25, 2008

+1 for per task reminders

I'd push the button on a pro account right this minute if you could hook this up.

Posted at 9:38am on May 27, 2008

A remind date would also be useful to search on since some tasks can't be started until a certain date.

Posted at 5:49am on July 2, 2008