Creating and recurrence

Create one rule, then let it produce the right alerts.

A reminder keeps the title, schedule, and settings. An alert is one concrete notification DKReminder shows at a scheduled time. Changing one alert is not the same as changing the whole reminder rule.

Choose how to start

Choose + to create a reminder ?

Depending on your saved preference and Pro access, DKReminder opens either the full editor or step-by-step creation. Both save the same reminder fields.

One continuous form

Walk through the full editor

The example below creates a weekly Saturday reminder for preparing a weekend hike. Choose a step to follow the fields in the same order in which they appear in the editor.

1 · Main details 2 · Timing 3 · Alert behavior 4 · Review and save

Start from a ready-made option

The catalog is a shortcut into the same editor, not a separate reminder type. Choose a close match, then review its title, time, and schedule.

Use the Meeting or Deadline scenario · Pro

These guided scenarios collect structured context before opening the regular reminder review. Meeting keeps participants, format, place or online platform, and preparation notes. Deadline keeps the due date, reminder cadence, destination or reference, and preparation notes.

Choose how this reminder gets your attention

Alert mode controls how prominently this reminder tries to appear. The app-wide choice is in Settings. In an individual reminder, you can follow that choice or select a different mode just for this reminder.

What Android permissions change

• Notifications must be allowed. If notifications for DKReminder or its reminder channel are disabled, neither a regular notification nor the full-screen alert can be shown.
• Full-screen access affects only full-screen display. Without it, Full-screen alert and high-importance alerts in Based on importance mode fall back to a regular notification.
• Even with full-screen access, Android may show a prominent notification instead while you are actively using an unlocked phone.
• Exact-alarm access affects whether an alert can arrive at the precise scheduled time; it does not change the selected alert mode.

To review or restore Android access, open Notifications and Full-screen alerts.

Choose the recurrence type that matches the real rule

The recurrence type answers one question: how should DKReminder calculate the next scheduled time? Choose a calendar type when the weekday or date matters. Choose an interval when the fixed distance between alerts matters.

One-time reminders

Choose Once for a task that should alert at one specific date and time, such as calling a service desk tomorrow at 10:00.

1. Select Once.
2. Choose the date and time.
3. Set importance and how the reminder should appear.
4. Save and verify the scheduled time.

Every N minutes, hours, or days

These are three separate recurrence types with the same basic rule. Use them when the distance between alerts matters more than the calendar label.

1. Choose Every N minutes, Every N hours, or Every N days.
2. Enter the interval and the First trigger.
3. Optionally set an active window and an end condition.
4. Choose whether the next alert is anchored By schedule or, with Pro, From response time.

Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedules

Daily

Daily runs at one or more selected times each calendar day. It is different from Every N days: Daily follows clock times on each eligible day, while Every N days counts a fixed number of days from its first trigger.

Weekly

Weekly runs every week on one or more selected weekdays at the chosen time. Use it when the weekday itself matters, such as every Monday and Thursday.

Every N weeks

Every N weeks skips a chosen number of weeks between active weeks, then runs on the selected weekdays. The week containing the Recurrence start sets which weeks belong to the pattern.

Monthly

Monthly scheduling follows calendar months, not a fixed number of days. You can define the date in two ways.

• On a specific day of the month. Enter the day number and alert time. If a shorter month does not have that day, the alert follows the app-wide rule or the rule selected for this reminder. Review the calendar-exception settings.
• From the end of the month · Pro. Choose one of two options:
  • On the last day of the month. Enter the alert time.
  • A number of days before the end of the month. Enter 1–27 days and a time. The reminder alerts once on the calculated date. For example, with “4 days before,” a month ending on August 31 produces August 27, while a month ending on September 30 produces September 26. These are not daily alerts throughout the last four days.

Do not start before sets the earliest allowed date. For example, if “4 days before” is selected and the boundary is August 31, the calculated August 27 date is earlier than that boundary. The first alert is therefore September 26.

Extra alerts after that date appear only when repeat alerts without a response are enabled separately.

Yearly

Yearly recurrence uses a calendar month and date. If you select February 29, choose the explicit non-leap-year rule: February 28, March 1, or leap years only.

Get advance reminders before one target date · Pro

Advance notice adds earlier alerts while keeping one main reminder date. It does not create a row of separate reminder rules: the title, checklist, past occurrence record, and target date still belong to one occurrence.

Choose a cycle-safe number of days

At least one calendar day is required. DKReminder limits the advance window so it does not overlap the neighboring recurrence cycle and make two target occurrences ambiguous.

• One-time reminder: the first early alert must still be in the future.
• Every N days, by schedule: at most half the interval, rounded down. For every 4 days, the maximum is 2.
• Monthly: up to 14 days.
• Yearly: up to 182 days.

Advance notice is available for one-time reminders, fixed Every N days, monthly schedules, and yearly schedules. It is not offered where the next target cannot be known safely in advance, such as minute/hour intervals, weekly schedules, manual cycles, or schedules counted from your response.

Respond to an early alert

• Keep reminding me closes the current daily early alert and leaves the next planned alert.
• Skip remaining advance reminders stops only the rest of the current occurrence’s early series; the main alert remains.
• Got it closes a single early alert. Snooze returns that specific alert without moving the automatic schedule.
• Done completes the current occurrence. If the reminder repeats, its next target cycle remains on schedule.

By schedule or from response time

This choice is available for the Every N minutes, hours, and days interval types.

Manual daily cycle · Pro

Use a manual daily cycle when the day's start changes and you want later alerts to follow that real start. The cycle never starts automatically.

1. Choose Manual daily cycle.
2. Set the interval and inclusive active-window boundaries.
3. Optionally enable a helper reminder that asks you to start the cycle.
4. If the course is limited, set how many manual day starts it includes.
5. On each day, open the reminder and choose Start when you are ready.

Example: start at 09:30 with a two-hour interval and an active window ending at 18:00. DKReminder plans 11:30, 13:30, 15:30, and 17:30. It does not add a 19:30 alert.

Active window and calendar exceptions

The Active window limits when new scheduled alerts may be created. Its boundaries are inclusive, and it can cross midnight, such as 22:00–06:00.

• A planned point outside the window is not simply moved to the window start; DKReminder finds the next valid scheduled point.
• For minute/hour intervals and a manual cycle, an invalid first calculated alert blocks saving or starting until you change the time or window.
• An alert that already exists may be snoozed beyond the active window because snooze acts on that alert, not on the main schedule.
• Short-month and February 29 policies appear only for the calendar edge case that needs them.

End conditions, expected result, and common checks

Repeating schedules can continue until you stop them, end after a number of scheduled alerts, or stop at a date. A manual daily cycle uses a course limit instead of the generic end condition, and a one-time reminder needs none.

If the schedule looks wrong

1. Check whether you selected an interval type or a calendar type. Every 28 days is not monthly.
2. Check the meaning of the start field: First trigger, Recurrence start, or Do not start before.
3. For Every N weeks, verify the week that establishes the interval and the selected weekdays.
4. For a 29th, 30th, 31st, or February 29 schedule, review the calendar exception.
5. Check whether the active window excludes the expected point.
6. For From response time, remember that the next alert is calculated only after you respond to the current one.

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