Reminders and notifications
Pellet can nudge you about tasks with dates, using your operating system’s own notifications.
When they arrive
Section titled “When they arrive”| Task has | You get told |
|---|---|
| A due time | 10 minutes before, and again at the time |
| A due date with no time | At 9:00 that morning |
The ten-minute warning is the useful one. A notification at the exact moment something is due is a notification about something you’ve already failed to start.
Where they come from
Section titled “Where they come from”Your OS, not a browser tab or a service. On iPhone and iPad they’re scheduled with the system, so they arrive whether or not Pellet is running.
Calendar reminders are separate
Section titled “Calendar reminders are separate”If you’ve connected a calendar, there are reminder lists in Settings → Calendar sync — a lead time for timed events, and a time-of-day for all-day ones.
Those are a different thing from the notifications above. They’re attached to the calendar events Pellet creates when it pushes your tasks across to Google or iCloud, and they’re delivered by that calendar, not by Pellet. You can set them up without pushing anything, but they have no effect until you turn task push on. If you never push tasks to a calendar, the reminders above are the only ones you get.
Turning them off
Section titled “Turning them off”There’s no switch inside Pellet. Task notifications go out for every task with a date, and you silence them the same way you’d silence any other app:
- macOS — System Settings → Notifications → Pellet.
- Windows — Settings → System → Notifications → Pellet.
- iPhone and iPad — Settings → Notifications → Pellet.
- Android — long-press the app icon → App info → Notifications.
- Linux — wherever your desktop environment keeps its notification settings; it varies.
The other way to stop one is to take the date off the task. No date, no reminder.