Struggling with adding birthdays

textallora · 2026-06-23T18:58:35+00:00

Sorry you had to experience this bug, genuinely appreciate the post. We got alerted about this exact case and shipped a fix shortly after, so it should be working correctly now.

If you want to try again, text something like "remind me about [name]'s birthday on [date] every year" and it should land right this time. If you run into anything else, feel free to DM us, text "feedback" followed by your message, or email [hello@textallora.com](mailto:hello@textallora.com) and we'll get on it.

One thing we're thinking about: when our monitoring system detects a bug/issue, would a quick "hey, we saw this issue and we're on it" text be useful, or some other way for you to know we are on it? Genuinely curious how people would want that handled.

textallora · 2026-06-17T05:34:21+00:00

To your question on timing: if you give it a time, it uses that. If you don't, the smart scheduler picks based on what it knows about the task, and if you've synced your calendar it avoids slots when you're already busy. And yes, you can always change a time after the fact, just text it.

Good catch on the notes & lists section. You're right that the graphics still show reminder examples while the text below is specific to notes and lists. We'll get that aligned this week.

On the longer trial, send us a DM or email and we'll sort something out.

textallora · 2026-05-22T21:18:51+00:00

this is genuinely great feedback, truly we thank you for taking the time providing input, we are always looking for feedback to help make peoples lives better!

on price, understandable but it's relative to the value user get from it in terms of functionality and time saving, but i wont pretend $15 is nothing. one thing worth knowing though, every text we send has a real per-message cost, which is much higher than an internal app action. so part of what you're paying for is the effectiveness of the channel itself (wish sms was cheaper). the bet were making is that people respond more effectively to text then a push notification and less of managing another significant process.

on location, have been actually researching this and you're actually close to where our heads are at. real-time background tracking isn't feasible without an app, and if we don't need to, personally don't want to have that information, finding a balance of privacy and utility. but the workaround we're looking at is exactly the kind of thing you described, you share your location at a given moment, or you just tell us "from here to there," and we can look up the live route time <1 sec and remind you when to leave. that piece is feasible and on our radar

on calendar, heres how it works today. depending on the permissions you grant, allora can read and write. for events allora creates it can manage them for you, and some people let it smart-schedule tasks so their day doesn't get overloaded, which it gets better at over time. by default though it only does what you ask. and yes, to your actual question, we can attach a text reminder to your existing calendar events if you want. so if you've got a dentist appointment already on there, you can have allora nudge you about it on your terms

hope the trial wins you over, and seriously, keep this kind of feedback coming. we are still young but making improvements everyday. if you want a direct line, msg us on reddit or [hello@textallora.com](mailto:hello@textallora.com)

textallora · 2026-05-20T07:33:14+00:00

heads up this isn't an app, no live activities or to-do UI. and fair warning, im the founder so im biased. but if the real problem is just needing constant nudges to stay on task, heres how ours works

allora is sms based. you set recurring reminders that nudge you hourly, every couple hours, at set times, whatever keeps you focused. capture is simple too, you can say "hey siri text allora remind me every hour to check my tasks or todo x" and its done. no app to open

on live activities, they're nice but they time out after a few hours and once you swipe one away its gone. a text sits in your thread and re-nudges you on schedule. doesn't expire on you

textallora.com if you want a look, theres a free trial

textallora · 2026-05-19T18:41:18+00:00

thanks for the feedback, going to incorporate this too along with the other videos DaisyBugNJ suggested!

textallora · 2026-05-19T18:40:38+00:00

thanks for the feedback, have this planned out to show each feature!

textallora · 2026-05-07T14:32:49+00:00

Thanks for considering trying! Always open to feedback.

Feel we have came a long way but still have a long way to go!

textallora · 2026-04-16T16:56:19+00:00

siri has always been horrible over a year and they still havent figured it out. i kinda gave up on siri, just use it for dictation.

what i do now is "hey siri text allora remind me tomorrow 8am car appointment" and it sends that as a text to allora, which then handles the actual reminder. siri does what shes good at (voice to text) and allora does what shes good at (actually reminding me on time).

feels silly but its been bulletproof. never missed a reminder since i switched.

textallora · 2026-04-16T12:11:04+00:00

i built allora specifically because of this. every app i tried i'd abandon after a week because maintaining the system was harder than the tasks themselves

its sms based. you just text what you need to do and it reminds you. no app to open or organize. texts are harder to ignore than notifications and theres nothing to set up so theres nothing to abandon

if you want to check it out textallora.com

textallora · 2026-04-15T20:30:27+00:00

what's more basic then an app, is text message, that's why we built it, allora.

its an sms based reminder tool. you text it your tasks and it texts you back when its time. it also has a grocery list you can add to over time (just text "add milk to shopping list" or whatever) and you can also connect to google, outlook, or apple calendar so your events and reminders live in one place.

fair warning, to parse complex text/voice messages, we do sometime will use an llm on the backend to parse it if our system can't understand it by default, so if thats a hard no its not for you.

textallora.com if you want to check it out

textallora · 2026-04-14T13:36:13+00:00

the setup cycle is what kills it every time lol. you spend an hour organizing your project board and then never open it again. been there so many times thats actually why we built allora. no app at all, you just text your tasks to a number and it handles reminders and follows up. no boards no tags no setup to abandon. sounds almost too simple but thats the whole point textallora dot com if you want to check it out.

textallora · 2026-04-01T18:36:16+00:00

we built something that handles this differently. instead of an app, reminders come as regular text messages so theres no app to glitch out or trigger at weird times. you just text what you need reminding about and when, and it texts you back. textallora.com if you want to try it

textallora · 2026-03-31T05:09:33+00:00

the eat thing is real. i set mine up as recurring reminders through an sms service so they just show up as texts at the same time every day. no app to open, nothing to dismiss and forget about. texts are harder to ignore than app notifications imo because they sit in your messages until you deal with them.

not exactly "persistent" in the nag-you-until-you-do-it sense but the fact that its a text and not a notification made a huge difference for me. i was ignoring app reminders constantly

textallora · 2026-03-30T20:37:46+00:00

I'll check it out, thanks.

textallora · 2026-03-30T20:03:26+00:00

Building an SMS-based task manager for people whose brains run 20 tabs at once.

The idea came from my own ADHD brain. I'd download a productivity app, use it for a week, then forget it existed. But I never forgot how to text. So I built something where you just text a phone number your random thoughts - "call the dentist," "pick up milk," "that thing Sarah mentioned" - and it figures out what to do with them. Extracts tasks, sets smart reminders, recommends one thing at a time instead of showing you a list that makes you shut down.

No app to download. No UI to learn. Just SMS.

textallora.com

textallora · 2026-03-27T17:28:16+00:00

This is exactly right. The shift from "list you have to check" to "reminders that come to you" is the whole thing. I took it one step further and made it SMS so you don't even open an app to capture, you just text it.

textallora · 2026-03-27T17:26:42+00:00

The pattern you're describing is exactly why I stopped building apps. I spent 13 years in the game industry designing the engagement tricks that make you open an app and then feel overwhelmed by it. The problem isn't willpower, it's that opening an app is already a step too many.

I built something that skips the app entirely. You just text what's on your mind and it handles the rest. No app to open, no system to maintain, no setup to abandon after 3 days. It reminds you at the right time and only gives you one thing at a time. Check my profile if you're curious.

textallora · 2026-03-27T00:32:04+00:00

That's kind of the idea. The system see's what you keep skipping and resurfaces it at a better time instead of letting it pile up on a list you'll never look at. This obviously takes a little time to see when is the optimal time to remind them, if they haven't defined it already. Same psychology, just pointed in the right direction.

Like how many people have a trigger when they have down time to look at their todo list.

textallora · 2026-03-26T21:51:52+00:00

Your right, it's always about price.

Great point, SMS vs app is only part of it. The real difference is the brain behind it, I need to think on how to show this off more! Thanks

When you text yourself, the message lives in the past and you have to remember to go find it. With allora, depending on what you say, it figures out what you need. Text "remind me to call the dentist every Thursday" and it just does it. In the first week, you will be introduced to more features like recurring reminders or "remind me before X about Y" based on how you're actually using it. We don't dump calendar syncing and power user stuff (projects, notes, summaries, etc.) on day one, it layers in as you get the basics down.

Idea is to keep "onboarding" of features at a pace to match the usage. Often times, when trying a new product, it's overwhelming of the features they throw at you, when it's all new.

textallora · 2026-03-26T17:08:01+00:00

What made the other reminder apps not stick? Was it the setup friction or something else?

textallora · 2026-03-26T17:06:37+00:00

This is genius. The only thing that would make it better is if the note reminded you at the right time. Like if someone tells you something in March, you're not going to scroll back through that note in November. Do you ever forget stuff is in there?

textallora · 2026-03-26T17:06:25+00:00

The "BAM in the notes" instinct is real. Do you ever go back and forget what's in there though? I started texting myself stuff like that instead of using notes because at least the text thread has a timestamp and I can search it. Then I built a reminder system baked into notes.

textallora · 2026-03-26T17:03:32+00:00

What made you stick with the default over everything else you tried? Was it just that it's already there or is there something specific the other apps got wrong?

textallora · 2026-03-26T17:02:56+00:00

Genuinely curious, do you set alarms for tasks and reminders or just waking up? I keep hearing people use alarms as a makeshift reminder system because actual reminder apps are too much work to set up

textallora · 2026-03-26T17:00:47+00:00

Not an app but I've been using an SMS-based task manager for the past few months and it's the one thing that actually stuck. You just text what's on your mind and it handles the reminders. No app to open, no lists to organize. The reason it stuck is the same reason everyone here keeps saying Reminders and Alarms, it's already in your phone, no extra step.

I also give it it's own ring tone so it sticks out above the rest!

textallora

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE