I was thinking along the same lines, but I'd find task-specific notification overrides even more useful. For most tasks, a couple hours of advance notification is fine, but for a large task with a specific due-date and other such preparation-intensive tasks, a day or two of advance notice would be quite useful.

I had to resort to using the help just to find the reminders; it never occurred to me it would be a system wide setting. Definately suggest task specific notifications, but list specific at a bare minimum.

We could probably have a pretty good discussion over the merits of list-based vs. task-based. I would probably lean toward saying list-based strikes the right power-to-complexity balance. Personally, I don't really want to have to manage reminders on a task-by-task basis (would rather just move a task to a reminderless list, for example). But I'd take either over a system-wide setting. :-)

Most todo/calendering systems have default settings, and allow you modify those. So you never have to manage reminders, just accept the defaults. Of course, you'd need list specific defaults and task specific control. Even more complexity! :)

I just joined and tried out RtM. This web app has great possibilities.

However, for some strange reason :-), I would like "work" task reminders sent to my work email address. I would expect to send reminders for other lists to my gmail and/or yahoo accounts, for example.

Anyway, I was disappointed to discover that reminder settings are globally set.

--Jim Service

We think that list-specific reminders are a great idea - we may look into doing something like this.

That gets my vote too. Loved everything but the lack of that feature.. One quickly starts wanting to tweak their alert preferences based on type of task/list (more important things might get an SMS and several reminders, etc). The global settings are still good, but they should be overridable per task.