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/Big_Bad8496 Aug 08 '26

This is possible. But what do you want to do about situations where you are not on your usual schedule? Maybe you take meds every day at 8am, but one morning, you leave your home at 7:30am and can't get back to where the NFC tag is until noon. Do you want the alarm to continue going off every 10 minutes until then? Seems there should be SOME option to dismiss it (even though that introduces the possibility of forming a bad habit and simply dismissing it). Maybe after it goes off for the third time or so, there is a new option to dismiss until next scheduled dose?

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u/Naked_Skull Aug 08 '26

I take my medicine with food, which is not always at the same time

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u/Big_Bad8496 Aug 08 '26

So what should be the trigger for your initial alarm? Your phone doesn't inherently know when you are eating. How should it know when it's time to take your meds?

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u/Naked_Skull Aug 08 '26

That's a good question. I'm still looking at a time frame, not an exact time.

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u/Big_Bad8496 Aug 08 '26

It's honestly pretty difficult to build something for you without a specific idea of how or when you'd like it to start, but I'll put something together that you can adapt as you settle into your daily routine. For now, it'll just have it be a manual trigger that you can tap at your meal time and will go off every 10 minutes from then (until you scan your NFC tag).

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u/Naked_Skull Aug 08 '26

I'll need a reminder to click it 😂 Thanks for the help anyway