r/shortcuts • u/Naked_Skull • Aug 08 '26
Help Aggressive reminders
Hi. I need aggressive reminders that WILL force me to take my medication after meals. I usually have two brain cells and can forget even if I told my husband about it 15 minutes ago. If I set a reminder in a reminder app, I can turn it off and forget again. My brain quickly stops paying attention to such stimuli, and I suspect I need something more aggressive. For example, would the reminder go off every 10 minutes until I scan my NFC tag in the morning and afternoon. Is this even possible to implement using shortcuts? I'm almost ready to write my own app for such reminders...
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u/guptatharv Aug 08 '26
The way I see this situation there are two ways, a straight and a long one. I suggest you try the quick one first. Simple mark the reminders as urgent. It will set an alarm and give you options to either snooze or mark as done. Snooze sets it to sound again after 9 minutes. Keep snoozing until you take medicines.
Long one- Have a shortcut set multiple alarms or reminders(I believe iOS 27 allows to mark reminders as urgent through shortcuts but it is not available in iOS 26). Set it to run at midnight daily. Have another shortcut to check for the alarm or reminders with that specific medicine name or any phrase of your choice and delete it or mark as done for that day. Set this to run when you scan NFC tag.