I would love to have this feature. Having different reminder times for different tasks would be very helpful

I'd love that too. Most of my tasks don't need reminders, I just want to see them when I log in. Sometimes I want a reminder to make an important phone call or send a birthday card. I currently track those on Google Calendar, which allows individualized reminders for every appointment (task). RTM, can you give us reminders customizable by individual task?

In four years, I can hardly count how many times this natural, entirely reasonable suggestion has been put forward. An incomplete list follows below. While there is a great Gcal workaround (https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/6517/), it's too roundabout to imagine all new RTM users to set that up, and in the meantime the inadequate flexibility in the current reminder system is surely not helping to win any new users over.

Now that the multi-edit UI issues have been addressed here, I think that reminders may very well be the leading open issue in terms of site functionality here at RTM.

It would be great to see Bob turn his attention to this challenge. I think tags and smartlists lay a foundation for reminders that could be extremely powerful for the end user without being that hard to code.

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/68/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/264/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/270/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/358/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/495/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/1233/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/1296/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2284/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2456/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/2493/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3009/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/3042/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3560/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3788/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/4081/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/4101/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/4156/ (great suggestion here)
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/4245/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/4251/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3476/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/5974/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/6344/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/7335/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/7460/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/7538/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/7737/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/7857/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/8376/
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/8621/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/8765/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/9115/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/9168/
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/9391/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/9467/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/9503/

Me too. I would love to have a different reminder setting for each task. Thanks!

+1

I too would love a different reminder setting, especially one that could be tag-based. But only as the default - each instance could be edited.

+1. Outlook had been doing this for ages.. Rmilk has become less useful for me without features like this. It would be nice for instance if work tasks could remind me at work and home tasks remind me @ home. Or if 1 task could have a 1 hr reminder and another a 15 minute reminder

I would like to add my agreement with these comments in the hopes that this feature will be added soon. For me, it is incredibly useful to be able to set separate reminders, or even multiple types of reminders (as Google Calendar will let you do) for each task. The addition of this feature would make RTM a truly useful application for me. The lack of this features has limited its usefulness. Thanks for (hopefully) working on this one!

+1

I can't believe that this request is continually being ignored.

It also needs customisation of what sort of reminder to use. For example, every time I get a reminder, my iPhone, Gmail IM and email go off. I don't need that. In fact, it's annoying to have to acknowledge all three.

I'd much prefer to choose how to be reminded.

I would add my voice again for the inclusion of this feature as I have many times before.

Add me to this list as well. RTM is so customizable for the many ways people set up their tasks/events/to-dos, I can't see why this couldn't be implemented.

I am with you - this is great idea. I would be very grateful too, if will be possible use different types of reminder (email, jabber, sms, etc.) for different kinds of tasks, e.g. whole list of task for current day by email at morning and then reminder for task before it should be done via sms, IM.

+1

And a big +1 for this comment:

"It also needs customisation of what sort of reminder to use. For example, every time I get a reminder, my iPhone, Gmail IM and email go off. I don't need that. In fact, it's annoying to have to acknowledge all three." Totally agree. I want to be able to choose which one reminds me for a particular task.

This is definitely an important feature. Can we get an idea if this is even being considered?

This function is MUST !
Like Outlook have, Due Date, and custom Reminder !!
I go to PRO if this would be implemented !!!

Reminder can not be predefined when depends on the situation in question, the location .... it depends on when I'll put a reminder.
Please give this function!

+1

I also need this bigtime. Ill tell you why, my memory is awfull so i when i go to letctures i write my stuff down, but will forget to read them. So i need to have a reminder for each lecture to read the notes 1 day after + 1 week after + 1month after + 3months after so they are commited to my long term memory. If your planning on this then ill happily be a beta tester.

I want the same thing. I just found out I can't get the reminders the way I want them. I LOVED this program but I really need the reminders. That is the whole point of me putting info in the program so it can be my brain for me. If I have to remember anyway then it didn't help.

I just did the google work around posted above and ran into the google problem where reminders are not sent to other emails than your gmail address. SOOOO frustrated.

+1

+1

+ 1
to define different reminders for different tasks and lists is really needed!

This feature is EXTREMELY needed... it would be nice to make it similar to the reminders in google calendar, which allows you to set up to 5 (I think) custom reminders for each task and you choose the amount of time before or after the task when the reminder will be sent (via email, text, or pop-up).

+1.

I would like to have different kinds of reminders... like MSN vs. Email: MSN for tasks with "due-time"... and email for tasks due tomorrow.

Would like custom reminder time for individual tasks please.

I concur.

As a prime example: I don't need to know a day beforehand that my weekly housecleaning is coming up tomorrow. But I DO need to know at LEAST a week beforehand when I need to go get the registration on my car renewed.

And another vote for reminders that could be tailored to the task. I was used to this with Palm Desktop / Palm Treo and miss it with RTM.

This is definitely a must have feature!

Not only that, I thing the RTM-reminder-funtion in general could be improved a lot (IMO it is the one major downside to RTM)!

I would love to have the following features implemented:

- different reminders for different tasks
- different email-adresses for different tasks (e.g. work-adress for work tasks and personal adress for personal tasks)

- responding to reminders!!!
i have all my reminders filtered to a specific folder in my GMail and (as i'm working mostly out of this list during the day) it would be very nice to have the possibility to respond to a reminder with "Done" and the task would get marked as Done in RTM. another nice feature would be to reschedule tasks via reply to the remindes in a similar manner.

+1 (definitely a must have nowadays)

+1

I would find the flexibility very useful as well. I have reminders turned off in order to stop the flood of emails. However, tomorrow I need to change an appointment and would like a reminder. I guess I need to create a GCal event.

+1

+1

+1

+ 1000

Just finished updating my task list, reminders and whatnot and I noticed the lacking of this fuctionality. A quick search on google brought up several threads, some from years back.

Why has this still not been added in? Clearly it's a feature in high demand.

+1 (my first request in RTM forum)

+1 (my first request also)

me three

Hi,

I have been following the requests for flexibility of reminders for a number of years, there have been workarounds, but they don't really hit the spot and usually involve another program/service.

See www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3476/ for my best attempt with 103 requesters.

These are deleted at regular intervals due to "closed automatically due to a lack of responses in the past month" (originally 6 months). So if you really want it, you need to keep it alive folks...:-)

Current best are

www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/9503/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2064/

Suggestions for improving the flexibility of the reminders.

To set reminders

single tasks - www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/9503/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/10830/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/10183/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/68/

due items www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/11139

overdue items www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/11139/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3702/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/10537/

on each list/tag www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/10975/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/10543/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/9965/
www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/9467/

dismissing www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/android/10370/

repeat www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/android/10392/


There are various others see another long timer...

ranbarton says:
In four years, I can hardly count how many times this natural, entirely reasonable suggestion has been put forward. An incomplete list follows below. While there is a great Gcal workaround (https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/6517/), it's too roundabout to imagine all new RTM users to set that up, and in the meantime the inadequate flexibility in the current reminder system is surely not helping to win any new users over.

Now that the multi-edit UI issues have been addressed here, I think that reminders may very well be the leading open issue in terms of site functionality here at RTM.

It would be great to see Bob turn his attention to this challenge. I think tags and smartlists lay a foundation for reminders that could be extremely powerful for the end user without being that hard to code.

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/68/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/264/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/270/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/358/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/495/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/1233/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/1296/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2284/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2456/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/2493/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3009/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/3042/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3560/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3788/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/4081/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/4101/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/4156/ (great suggestion here)
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/4245/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/4251/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3476/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/5974/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/6344/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/7335/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/7460/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/7538/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/7737/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/7857/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/8376/
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/8621/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/8765/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/9115/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/9168/
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/9391/

See Ya.

G

Hi All,

I'm new to RTM and I am currently using the Android App on my Droid. I have just started the 15 day trial period right now and I was about to purchase the subscription when I noticed that I could not set up individual reminders for my tasks. This one thing alone will prevent me from purchasing the Pro upgrade. I was quite surprised that RTM doesn't allow this now. I am even MORE surprised that this feature has been requested for so long and has not been implemented!

RTM: What is the deal with implementing different reminders at the individual task level? Why has this common feature of todo list/task managers not been implemented in RTM??? I absolutely need this feature implemented in order to be able to use RTM as my task manager. Since it currently does not have this ability, and I doubt it will happen in the next 14 days when my trial is over, I will be looking for another task manager.

Pro Users: I assume you have asked RTM support about this. What have they said about this? Have they given a reason why this has not been implemented yet?

Regards,

Paul

I second this! Please have reminders specific to tasks!

This is definitely a must have feature !!!!!
( this is my first request in RTM forum)

Come on RTM people I paid my dues. Please add this it would be so useful

Agree with everybody above. I would really like it

I'd also love to see this feature.

i'd also be happy with this feature!

Id like to have email reminders off by default, but be able to set a reminder on certain, specific tasks - otherwise I'd just be spamming myself !

even reminders by lists would be helpful - I want personal reminders sent to a specific email but work reminders set to another ...

+1 ...no, +1.000.000!!!

I can't believe that this isn't a feature already!?

yep, would be a great enhancement - my workaround when i really, really need this, is creating multiple reminders with the same subject and different due times.

+1

+1

I'm a new user and will say that the lack of this feature is the one thing that will keep me going pro. More than that, the fact that all these requests have not even been addressed bodes ill.

+1

+1
Absolutely stunned that YEARS can go by without even a response on this.

I'm brand new to Remember The Milk. Just set up my second task and ran into this problem. I think it's going to be a deal breaker for me. Good-bye, I'll check back in a few months.

+1

gCal is has the best reminder system. Get with this simple request RTM.

Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Another disappointed user. It's such an intuitive feature that it never occurred to me that RTM didn't have it for individual tasks until I was setting up my first list. In fact, the "Setting reminders" section of https://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/guide/ led me to believe this feature was already in place.

My nonprofit organization currently uses Memotome.com and are looking to move to RTM, but might have to put this hold as this is a feature we use regularly.

Ideally we'd have the ability to set reminders for individual tasks. And like Memotome.com, we'd have the ability to setup a Final Reminder and Warning Reminders. Final Reminder is adjustable by minutes, hours, days and weeks from the due date (which includes date and time of day). Warning Reminder(s) come in before the Final Reminder. And you can customize how many Warning Reminder(s) you receive and how often they occur — again minutes, hours, days and weeks apart.

Please move this up on the priority list, RTM.

Thanks to Guice and Ranbarton for fighting the good fight. This topic DOES come up constantly, and never get any love from the staff. I wish they would at least tell us WHY they think this is a bad idea, why it wouldn't work or why they think it doesn't fit with their vision of RTM.

@johnmazz - Thanks for the mention. I only beat on these issues because I think they are the tiny flaws in what is a great creation. I think reminders and sorting are the two glaring issues these days, and I would so love to see RTM address them. It's an invaluable site, and I hate to see these issues lead others to cast it aside.

+1
This would be a useful feature. Almost all the other sites implemented this! RTM should catch up too.

This is the closest post I could find for this list without starting a new topic.

I moderate tasks for a small group of people. Each person has their own specific task list. On the topic of more flexibility in reminders, it would be great if I had the ability to set each person to receive e-mail reminders FOR THEIR PERSONAL TASK LIST ONLY, instead of having to see each person's task list together.

Hope to see all these reminder issues addressed or updated soon.

+1
As it currently stands, RTM effectively has no reminder system because the inflexible one in place has no practical usage scenario for the average monkey (man? me?). IMHO (the only important one of course) working to allow configurable reminders should be the only thing on the RTM staff's plate until it is completed. There, I said it: so let it be done!! Ah, imaginary podiums make me happy....done rant-writing now.
-JB

Reminders assigned to individual tasks is really a crucial feature. I have been using RTM for a few month and like it very much for the power of its search and smart lists but the lack of flexible reminders is beginning to feel like a deal breaker to me. So far I use the due date as a time to be reminded but then I don't have a way to incorporate a due date.

+1

+1

I've been test driving RTM for a few days and am actually relieved to hear that reminders specific to individual tasks is not a feature. It never occurred to me that it wasn't and I was beginning to feel hopeless ignorant in figuring out how to set a reminder

I sometimes have tasks that take 6 months or more to achieve and others that can be done very quickly. Thus, to standardise the reminders across all tasks is just rediculous.
Also, I'd like to be able to overview my taskes beyond just a weekly view. Because some take longer than a week to achieve, so in that contexts it's too late to see the task so close to the deadline!

Count me in on this as well.

I've just migrated from text files + Remind (linux tool) and I'm enjoying RTM. However, I'm really missing individual reminder alerts for tasks, as this Remind example illustrates:

rem 09 July +7 msg - Do something %b

In other words, start nagging me seven days in advance (+7) of 9th July, and print the number of days I have left (%b).

So simple it hurts.

This would really help my schedule.

+1

Absolute necessity which would just about make RTM the ulimate Task Manager.

Not having this feature has made me give up on my RTM account. I really like RTM, but custom reminders are a crucial feature for me and clearly a lot of other people. I was missing too many task deadlines with one reminder setup

I'll add my name to the list. Amazing how many people have posted here! The lack of this feature is definitely noticed!

Desperately want this feature. It would absolutely cement my love for this tool. Right now reminders serve no purpose for me.

I just discovered this website. In reading the description I thought it had this function. Then I started to set my page up and realized it didn't. I was so let down. A function like this is amazingly important in my work, and I imagine in many peoples lives. This feature would be so basic to add.

This feature would convert me to a pro user

+1

Would love this feature. Don't know why we have to wait so long for a feature like this.

Please. WANT!

So....the question is, how many people have to ask, agree and affirm that this is a good idea before it becomes reality?

+1

+1. New to RTM, shocked that this didn't exist.

Keep having to come back top this one, as I keep finding I need it...frustratingly... G

PLEASE ADD THIS!!! please

Let me add to the voice: Please separate the reminder by task, not as an overall preference. Without it, there's not too much incentive to moove over to RTM.

I would like to see reminders for individual tasks. Thanks

+1

+1.

Keep it simple and just give us a Remind checkbox in the task-edit pane (and a smart-add switch would be nice too!). Also a pref to have reminders all turned on or off by default.

As for customizing the timing of a reminder per task, that would be nice sometime down the road of programming resources allow.

I would like this feature as well.

Exactly how many requests does RTM need to receive in order to start working on it?

I would also like to see what PERCENTAGE of active users are requesting features like this instead of just a tally.

Again, to keep this request active, I add to this post my comment from my post 12543 :

It would be a nice addition to RTM if we could set a different sound to each task when it is reminded in function of its priority. Same goes for each priority, reminders should come more frequently as you approach a deadline

Bump! Pretty please! :)

I'd love to see this feature implemented. RTM is a great service with excellent design and well-thought-out functionality, but without the ability to prevent it from reminding me about specific tasks, the reminders function is significantly less useful. :(

Bump!!

Is there any progress on this? For such a advanced service like RTM, this feature is a must if you ask me.

Also i think a lot of people buy a pro account only because of the reminders. Thats another good reason why this should be done.


Thanks.

pls add this...

I agree, as a new user on of the first things I tried to do was set a specific reminder and found out that had to be set for all task - At first I thought there is no way this could be, since that is a basic function of all reminders systems

I agree, flexible reminders are just what i was looking for. I could get around it by setting the due date in advance of when the task is due, so it acts as a reminder, but psychologically it's unhelpful to have RTM screaming 'overdue' on tasks which aren't in reality and I could miss one which is actually overdue.

You could create two entries for a task with different dates: 'begin task' and 'task due' but that's clumsy.

Apart from that, RTM is a great system and supports David Allen's 'Getting Dhings Done' well. :)

Thanks

ABSOLUTELY! Not only that, but you should be able to tweak which type of reminders you want for different things (and this should carry to the Android app too).

For instance, I want to get a daily email of all tasks due today, but I don't want my phone to notify me at that time.

And for tasks with a due time, I want *those* to pop up a reminder on my phone, but I don't want to get an email.

Please, this would complete RTM! And ensure I renew my pro account :)

Custom reminders, s.v.p.

Yes please

If google can, rtm should be able too!

+1

+1, this would be a huge benefit

+1

Why hasn't this ever been implemented?

+1

+1

+1
(and reminders should not have to concur with due dates in any way. I need to be reminded well before the due date on some tasks).

+1, isn't this on developers priority list?

+1. What would satisfy most of us I think is to have 1 default reminder date. Have this apply to all reminders and lists etc at first. Then allow a custom reminder date for each task that we can set. This is crucial.

What would be useful for others is to also have a custom due date for each tag or list as well that we can set to override the default. But first and foremost we at least need reminder days for each task.

I have been struggling very much with this, to a point where I'm starting to look for other services.

i am not a pro so I'm adding +2 to this. Hope it'll count.
How long will it take to set up this Bob?

I've been finding all kinds of ways that RTM can help me organize different lists in my life...but most of them require this functionality. Is ther *any* update on the status of this feature? I agree with @macleodks - a default is fine, but the ability to customize is really key.

I'm a productivity trainer and I've been recommending RTM as an alternative to Google tasks, but I didn't realize that you can't customize reminders. That's enough to make me stop recommending RTM.

This is essential, must be added if i'm going to stay.

Realy Realy essential !

I would like to suggest Smart Filter based reminders or the ability to mark a Smart List as to generate reminders if a new item is added. Ideally, I could select to be reminded via mail or app.

I fully agree: I really miss individual reminder settings for each task.

+1

Truly astounding that this has not been added. I will decide whether to continue as a paying member based on whether there is any movement on this feature.

I'd be happy if I could just have reminders for Work tasks go to my work email address. It seems so simple, and yet...

Aw, geez. I just got Siri and was all excited about getting going with RTM, hit the reminder problem, looked for a solution, and - NONE! - so I'm going to be looking for a different productivity program.

Don't get why this hasn't been addressed after years of requests.

Brand new to RTM and this seems like a critical feature

I don't need this feature that often, but it would be really nice.

Given how well RTM generally syncs with Outlook, I find it quite disappointing that the reminder functionality is relatively so lacking.

I don't really need to be able to customize the reminders, but would really value being able to get separate reminders for each task (vs. the daily digest). I know I can get separate reminders if I set different times associated with each task, but that is a giant pain - is there a simpler solution?

+1

Would love to see this

This is something that will tip the bucket between me getting RTM pro or settling for a different application.

Just started with RTM a couple of days ago. It's a great tool, but I was surprised at the lack of a per-task reminder setting.

+1, come on!

+1, Now I use another Program for the stuff of which I need to be reminded... This feature would be awesome!

I really want this, what's the problem?

I'm so disappointed that this feature don't allow you to set different reminders on different tasks!! That's the ONLY reason I just paid for pro today! SO DISAPPOINTED!!!

There is a huge difference in reminders for a presentation in school and a "buy milk"!

For me, this is the only missing feature to perfection for rememberthemilk!

This would make RTM so much better! Right now I have reminders on, but I tend to ignore them because a lot of the reminders are for things that don't really need one. If I only got a reminder for certain things, I wouldn't get habituated to them and they'd be a lot more effective.

If I'm not mistaken, reminders seem to be an all or nothing selection. I have set up RTM for bill payments, most of which would benefit from a reminder. However, direct debits simply need to be seen in the Tasks screen without a reminder.
The ability to set individual reminders would be a great enhancement.

+1 please

I can setup individual reminders in Outlook.com, but the task management tool they provide is lacking. It would be great to find a tool that does individual reminders along with task management. I'll give this tool a year as I just upgraded to Pro, but after that year if there is no individual reminders, I'm off to another evaluation.

+1

+1

+1

+1

This would be extremely, extremely useful.

+100

I use this feature all the time in Outlook, it's something of a deal breaker not to have it in RTM, which otherwise does everything I want.

Hello, much as I love RTM, I've been waiting and waiting for this. A due date PLUS a reminder date/time. Thanks.

RTM is the best. I've been using it since I can't remember when, but it's crippling to have reminders set globally instead of per task. I use Outlook at work and rely on this feature; I would love to have it for my personal tasks. I don't want a reminder for most of my tasks, but the ones that need one are generally the most important. I currently have to leave RTM to create a separate calendar event if I want a reminder, which is annoying and redundant.

Per task reminders should:

1. Be able to be set to any arbitrary date and time.
2. Be able to toggle on or off each type of reminder, and each service for types that can use more than one service. For example, I should be able to send an SMS reminder and an email reminder to my work email, but not a desktop reminder and not an email to my personal email.

Thanks for considering this idea!

How can it be that after 5 years this hasn't been implemented??!! I am considering leaving RTM.

I need this feature! I don't need reminders for all my tasks, but for the tasks that do need prompting, I need to be able to set different just as many other posters have indicated.

I just stumbled on this thread again while looking for something about the Daily Digest. So let me say thank you for adding per-task reminder settings to the new app! It's been extremely helpful, everything I was hoping for.