Smart Reminders
When adding smart reminders there are a large number of cases it can pick up. This guide provides a breakdown on what is known to be understood by the system and an outline of the limitations that are known to not be understood.
Smart reminders are created out of sentences but need to follow a fairly defined structure.
Detector Date Time
Smart reminders support multiple reminders within the one note, thus the following note will generate two reminders.
“Phoned Paul and touched base about the progress of the payment yesterday. Need to chase up the bank about payment this tomorrow at 4pm”
Reminders created (today is 24/1/19)
- “touched base about the progress of the payment” 23/1/19 12:00 AM
- “chase up the bank about payment” 24/1/19 4:00 PM
Detectors
There are 5 detector sentence fragments that will start a reminder
- Remind me
- Follow up
- Chase up
- Check on
- Touch base
Good Date Parts
These parts are known to function correctly
Numbers
- one
- two
- three
- four
- five
- six
- seven
- eight
- nine
- ten
- eleven
- twelve
- 1 through to 999
Time intervals
- minute(s)
- hour(s)
- day(s)
- week(s)
- month(s)
- year(s)
Dates
- 5/11
- 5/11/19
- 5/11/2019
- 2019/11/5
- 5-11-19
- 5-11-2019
- 2019-11-5
- 5th of Nov
- 5th of November
Words
- Next
- Last
- Now
- Noon
- Tonight
- Today
- This morning
- This afternoon
Examples
Remind me to do something tomorrow Remind me to do something last week Remind me to do something on the 5th of Nov Remind me to do something Next Month
Bad Date Parts
These parts are known to not be understood by the system
Numbers
- thirteen
- twenty two
Time intervals
- fortnight
- on the 5th
Words
- Previous
- Upcoming
- Later
- Lunchtime
Good Time Parts
Time parts can take the following forms and be understood by the system
Times
- 2:00 PM
- 14:00
- 2pm
- At 2
Named Times
- Morning
- Noon
- Afternoon
- Evening
- Midnight
Examples
Remind me to do something at 2:00 PM Remind me to do something on the 5th of Nov at 2 Remind me to do something this Morning Remind me to do something 5/11/19 Evening
(Note : “Remind me to do something 5/11/19 in the Evening“ will not be recognized)
Bad Time Parts
These time parts will not be understood by the system
Times
- Two o’clock
- At two
Names Times
- Night
- Late
- Early