Nudge: Calendar Alerts

Nudge is a calendar that sets your reminders for you. You already know how far ahead you need to be warned. A week to plan for it. A day to prepare. An hour to wrap up what you are doing. Fifteen minutes to actually go. No calendar will do all four for you, so you add them by hand, one event at a time, until you stop bothering and start missing things. Tell Nudge your set once. It adds all of them to every new event from then on, automatically, wherever you created that event. WHY THIS WORKS EVERYWHERE Nudge builds on the calendar already on your iPhone, so it sees every calendar you have added in Settings, whichever service they come from. The alerts it adds are set on the events themselves, so they sync back to wherever the event lives, appear in the Calendar app, fire on your Mac and Watch, and keep working even if you delete Nudge. A FULL CALENDAR, NOT JUST A REMINDER TOOL - Month, week, day and list views - Type "lunch with Sam Thursday at 1" and get an event - Home and lock screen widgets showing what is next, and its alert count - Leave by alerts that account for traffic at the time - A daily summary that flags anything with no alerts on it AND BOARDS, FOR THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT EVENTS Not everything you have to do happens at a time. Nudge has boards for the rest: columns of task cards you drag between, each card holding steps, a due date and the same reminder set your events get. Every board has a notes area, and any line of a note becomes a task with one tap. Tasks with a due date show up on the calendar next to your events, so one screen answers what is happening and what is owed. A Due Soon widget puts the next ones on your Home Screen, and a task that matters can keep reminding you after its deadline until you acknowledge it. SAY IT AND FORGET IT "Hey Siri, add a Nudge" captures a task without unlocking anything, and it arrives carrying your whole reminder set rather than the single alarm a spoken reminder normally gets. Say a day and Nudge reads it off the sentence. Name a board out loud, ask what is due today, or mark something done. It is all in Spotlight and Shortcuts from the moment you install it. Boards mirror into Apple Reminders, and that is the delivery mechanism rather than a nicety: a reminder's alarm is fired by the system, is not rationed the way an app's own are, syncs to your Mac and Watch, and keeps working even if you delete Nudge. Nudge can also adopt a list you already keep and turn it into a board. HONEST ABOUT ITS LIMITS Some events cannot take every alert, and Nudge tells you instead of failing quietly. An event that repeats daily cannot carry a reminder set a week ahead, so Nudge fits what it can and says what it dropped. Some accounts cap how many alerts an event may have, so it sends your most important ones first. Read-only calendars, like the birthdays list iOS builds from your contacts, cannot be edited by any app, and Nudge says so. A screen called "Is Nudge working?" shows every event it has touched and every one it could not, with the reason. And one button removes every alert Nudge added, leaving anything you set yourself exactly as it was. FREE, AND WHAT PLUS ADDS The whole promise is free: one set of up to four reminders, added automatically to every new event on every calendar you have. Free also includes the widgets, and a board with unlimited tasks, steps, due dates and a reminder on every task. That is a working task manager, not a demo. Nudge Plus is one purchase, forever. It adds a different alert set per calendar (work gets everything, personal gets an hour), rules for events needing special treatment, more than four reminders per set, leave by alerts and extra themes. On boards: unlimited boards, the whole alert set on a task, tasks on the calendar, and keep reminding me on four tasks at once instead of one. PRIVACY Your calendar never leaves your device. Nudge has no account, no server and no analytics. It talks to nothing.