2mo ago

Why tf are these reminder options so random? Is there no way to pick a few that are always the same?

I hate this.

Every time i add an event to my calendar i have to read the whole list of freshly randomized, non-fitting reminder-time-options just to set a custom one anyway.

And as my memory is completely unreliable i set like 10 different reminders a day for everything.

This is on Pixel 6a.

Is there an obvious fix i'm not seeing?

Thx! 🙂

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You know it's time to sleep when Lemmy goes German
- that's another issue, lol.
  i have my phone set to english but occasionally some apps use the 2nd system language for no reason.
  it's a known bug. the recommended fix?: reboot 🫩
  
  Sometimes mine becomes Japanese. I have no idea why. It's not set like that anywhere.
  
  That's really weird. I have it set up the same way, English (US) as the first language and German as the second and I've never had that problem. But maybe I could download one of the apps where that happens for you and see if it's the same on my device.
Maybe it changes based on previous settings? Mine doesn't look like that at all
A different calendar app might have something better
If you have a common pattern, you could create a custom calendar with that pattern. For example, if you always want 3 reminders for this schedule:
10 minutes before
1 hour before
12 hours before
You can make a calendar with that preset, and then for any events that need that pattern, you set it to that calendar
Maybe try a different calendar app. Fossify calendar is pretty good.
- Does that synchronize with Google Calendar?
  
  It should. As far as I understand it all calendars on Android use Android's calendar system in the background and are basically just frontends.
  
  It does :)
  
  It synchronizes with CalDAV, you need DAVx⁵ though.
- Its fine, except it shunts "all day" events to the previous day.
  The amount of times I went to roll my trash cans out Wednesday night... Trash is picked up early Friday morning, so I have an all day "event" on Thursday that reminds me periodically to bring them out Thursday night. For whatever reason, Fossify calendar shows those kinds of events a day early and it drove me absolutely insane, because there's no way to fix it.
  
  You should report that as a bug. It doesn't do that for me. I use it exactly the same way. Maybe it's a time zone thing.
I knkw that I can change it somewhere. I believe it was the settings panel in the calendar.
Good open source alternative: Fossify calendar or Etar with Davx5
I feel like it's been a decade already... I paid for this app called CalenGoo. It's kind of clunky and reminiscent of older office software, but it is such a powerhouse under the hood.
It is insanely customizable, and it did the thing that I needed the most, which was to remind me in a way that I define!!!
(Edit the whole reason I purchased it at the time was because there simply was no option available where you could get an Android app to continually remind you. Back then it was one reminder and then fuck you if you miss it or didn't hear it go off. CalenGoo was life-changing in this way and I've come to love all the other features)
Plus when it does have a reminder go off, I can set any kind of quick snooze or even a very customized snooze like remind me in 172 minutes. If I dismiss a reminder I can undo it, and I can go into the specific event at any time and I can change the snooze, it's just... I don't even know how to describe how good this thing is.
When I set an event I can link it to map coordinates, Contact Cards, attach objects, have it synced to multiple calendars. It integrates with other apps which can then add in reminders (eg a line music event on FB). Linked events will update in real time and you'll get notifications for example if the venue changes.

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