Help Me Remember: Why I built yet another reminder app
I got so annoyed at losing track of my own reminders that I built an app to fix it. It’s called Help Me Remember, it’s free, and it runs on the web, iOS, and Android.
Why Reminders End Up Scattered Across Five Apps
Reminders get scattered because wherever you happen to be, the easiest place to set one changes. In the kitchen, it’s Alexa. Heads-down at work, it’s Slack. Out running around, it’s my phone. Each one is the obvious choice in the moment, and that’s exactly how the reminders end up spread across five different places.
So I’d set a reminder to call someone back, and then spend the afternoon half-listening for a notification I couldn’t remember the source of. Was it going to ping my phone? Announce itself in the kitchen while I was three rooms away? It’s a dumb problem to have, and it drove me nuts.
The fix isn’t forcing yourself to use one app for everything. The fix is setting reminders in one place and letting them show up wherever each one actually belongs.
How Per-Reminder Delivery Works
Help Me Remember lets you route each reminder to email, a push notification, or Slack, one at a time. You set the reminder in a single place, and you pick how that specific reminder reaches you.
Some things I want as an email because I’ll deal with them at my desk. Some I want as a push notification because they’re time-sensitive and need to be in my pocket. If you live in Slack the way I do during the workday, Help Me Remember sends the reminder straight into Slack so it lands where your work brain already is. Email reminders, push, or Slack. Same tool, your call every time.
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How Group Reminders Let Everyone Choose Their Own Channel
Group reminders let you remind a whole team at once while each person picks how they get it. This is my favorite part of the app.
You set one reminder for the group, and everybody chooses their own delivery channel. I get mine as a push. Someone else gets theirs by email. Someone else gets a Slack message. Same reminder, everybody gets it their own way, and nobody has to change how they work to stay on the same page.
Setting Reminders From Alfred on Mac
If you’re on a Mac, you can create a reminder straight from Alfred without opening the app. I use Alfred constantly, so being able to type out a reminder without switching apps or breaking focus is exactly the kind of thing that makes me actually use a tool instead of abandoning it after a week.
What Help Me Remember Costs
Help Me Remember is free. There’s no paid tier, no upgrade nag, no trial that expires on you. I built it to scratch my own itch, and I wanted it to just work for people without a paywall in the way.
Where You Can Use It: Web, iOS, and Android
Help Me Remember works on the web, iOS, and Android. Both the App Store and Google Play just approved it, which after the back-and-forth of app review felt like a huge win. So whatever you’re on, you can set a reminder and stop worrying about where it’s going to turn up.
You can try the Help Me Remember reminder app right now, no matter which device you’re on.
