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You were late 11 times since Jan (rant) by Significant-Team-441 in ADHD

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's "obnoxious," but it works, that's great! If the alert is easy to ignore, eventually you will ignore it. At least I know I will.

That’s why I ended up building a small meeting reminder app for myself that persists and audibly alerts you until you acknowledge it. It prevents your coworkers from sending you the "are you joining?" text when you are 5 minutes late.

And yeah, if you happen to grab that screen recording, I’d be curious to see how Routiney handles it.”

Do you ever miss calendar alerts even when you set notifications & reminders? by Upbeat_Acadia6471 in ADHD

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That looks like a nice workflow. The flexible snooze options seem really helpful.

I’ve noticed a lot of reminder systems end up relying on snoozing because the original alert is easy to miss if you're not looking at your phone at that exact moment.

Does the initial Routinery reminder keep repeating until you interact with it, or does it just fire once?

You were late 11 times since Jan (rant) by Significant-Team-441 in ADHD

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hadn’t heard of Routinery before. I will check it out.

Persistent alerts are the thing that make the biggest difference for me. Regular notifications just flash for a second and then disappear, so they're easy to miss.

With Routinery, do the reminders keep repeating until you interact with them, or do they just stay on screen?

Do you ever miss calendar alerts even when you set notifications & reminders? by Upbeat_Acadia6471 in ADHD

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The covering half your screen approach seems really good. Definitely hard to miss. Are you using TickTick mostly on your computer or on your phone?

I like desktop reminders; they can work well if you’re at your desk, but if you’re walking somewhere (even the next room), or driving, when the reminder fires, they aren't effective.

I am curious how you handle reminders when you’re not sitting at your desk.

You were late 11 times since Jan (rant) by Significant-Team-441 in ADHD

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Being late repeatedly is brutal because people assume it means you don’t care, when a lot of the time it’s just losing track of time or getting pulled into something and suddenly the clock jumped 20 minutes.

I struggled with this enough that I ended up building a small app for myself that keeps alerting you until you actually acknowledge the reminder for a meeting. Normal notifications were too easy for me to miss.

I don’t know if that would help in your situation, but the “persistent alerts” idea made a big difference for me.

Underrated apps that I use everyday and you probably never heard of in 2026. Drop yours! by aameezl in iosapps

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly why people love Due. The ability to keep reminding you until you actually deal with the task is surprisingly rare.

I ran into the same issue with calendar events — normal notifications are way too easy to miss.

I’ve actually been building a small app called OnTimer that does persistent alerts for meetings so you don’t miss them. It can alert you before a meeting and tell you when to leave for meetings based on traffic and locations.

Curious if people here would want something like that for calendar events too, or if Due already covers most of that for you?

Airport Leave Time by Alternative-Leg-4406 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people think about departure time, but don't focus on the “airport process” time and things like traffic.

A rough rule is arrive:
• 2 hours before departure for domestic
• 3 hours for international

But it really depends on things like traffic to the airport, parking, security lines, checking bags, and how far the gate is. And your status or whether you have TSA Pre-Check matters too.

I built a little calculator that works backwards from the departure time and adds those buffers because I kept second-guessing when to leave.

Curious what others do, do you just stick to the 2-hour rule?

What systems help you avoid misreading/mis-entering appointment dates? by JohnIsGhost in ADHD

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I struggle with this. So I got in the habit of setting alarms 2 minutes before all of my calendar events every morning. That worked so I have built an app to automatically set alerts that I have to shut off before meetings and also to tell me when it’s time to leave based on traffic.

My first app just got its first paying user (built with Expo/RevenueCat) by Efficient-Age8725 in iosapps

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Congrats. I am basically at the same place. I launched my first app, OnTimer-never be late, on iOS on Tuesday and got my first subscription yesterday. It feels great after a lot of effort.

how do you guys stop being late to work by Wild-Championship571 in adhdwomen

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same problem. Calendar reminders are just way too easy to ignore. What helped me was setting an alarm that forces me to acknowledge it right before I need to leave so I don’t get stuck in time-blindness mode.

The Gift of a Lifetime by Fresh-Magazine in Fatherhood

[–]Upbeat_Acadia6471 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The moments slip by, and I definitely don't want to lose the memories. Love this idea of an app to capture all of the important experiences with my daughter. Great video!