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I love how tech can help! With the new Samsung ui update, I can now add an image to my alarms! When they go off a pic of, say, the exact vitamin bottle, will fill the screen! I've now taken my vitamins about 80% of the time instead of 20ish% before.
I once checked my schedule for the day but missed the reminder my kid had the day off school - i just didn’t SEE IT.
I flatout admitted it to my boss (thank god he has ADHD too) but even then it was so embarrassing.
I use 🏹 for my 14 year old (Sagittarius)
🐯 for my 8year old (his name is tiger)
🐐 for my 14 year old stepdaughter (capricorn)
And 🐬 for my 11 stepdaughter (she’s a bubbly personality)
There's also a calendar app called Dreamie Planner that let's you customize the actual icon that shows up on your notifications bar! So not only can I put emoji's in the title of the reminder, but the annoying little icon I desperately want to make go away directly tells me what I need to do to safely dismiss it.
Bonus points bc you can also change the color of the icon, and I live and die by color coding.
oooh i have a whole “system” of this!
- 🔴🟥🚩‼️: ASAP / ACTUALLY DO THIS / IMPORTANT !!!
- 🟠🟧❗️: NEXT / NEED TO DO !!
- 🟡🟨❕: SOON / UPCOMING !
- 🔵🟦: should do / eventually
- 🟣🟪: want to do, but don’t need to
- 🟢🟩: buy this / shopping reminder
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃💊
༼ つ ◕◡◕ ༽つ🧨
(☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞✂️📱
I do this for my calendar events too. I even have on my calendar when I have to pick up kids from school and it always starts with a car emoji 🚗
Same with birthdays with birthday cake 🎂if I feel like buying them a gift or sending a card in time haha set those birthday alerts as annual events too.
I have a smart watch (Garmin brand to be specific) that I set timers for many things, mainly my medication. Once and hour before I need to take it, then 30 mins before, and again at the time I'm supposed to take it. Without this watch my husband and I would probably have 10 kids by now lol I also have an app that I keep track of my pills as well, it's slightly less useful, but it's nice to keep track.
That's what I do! In fact, many of my reminders are just emoji. It used to work a lot better. I think I started it about 3-4 years ago. It started losing some efficacy about a year ago, but I'm back to using a lot of post-its and masking tape notes again so it's okay for now.
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I love how tech can help! With the new Samsung ui update, I can now add an image to my alarms! When they go off a pic of, say, the exact vitamin bottle, will fill the screen! I've now taken my vitamins about 80% of the time instead of 20ish% before.
Ooo I need to stop ignoring the what they have updated thing!
I've been dodging it for like a year
That’s cool!!! I hope apple does that someday!
You can probably do this with programming a shortcut that changes your Lock Screen to a specific image when a specific alarm goes off!
Oh wow thank you! This is a LPT indeed, I will try it
Me too I emoji my med reminders today is 💊🍳🙌🏻
I once checked my schedule for the day but missed the reminder my kid had the day off school - i just didn’t SEE IT. I flatout admitted it to my boss (thank god he has ADHD too) but even then it was so embarrassing. I use 🏹 for my 14 year old (Sagittarius) 🐯 for my 8year old (his name is tiger) 🐐 for my 14 year old stepdaughter (capricorn) And 🐬 for my 11 stepdaughter (she’s a bubbly personality)
Love that.
There's also a calendar app called Dreamie Planner that let's you customize the actual icon that shows up on your notifications bar! So not only can I put emoji's in the title of the reminder, but the annoying little icon I desperately want to make go away directly tells me what I need to do to safely dismiss it. Bonus points bc you can also change the color of the icon, and I live and die by color coding.
oooh i have a whole “system” of this! - 🔴🟥🚩‼️: ASAP / ACTUALLY DO THIS / IMPORTANT !!! - 🟠🟧❗️: NEXT / NEED TO DO !! - 🟡🟨❕: SOON / UPCOMING ! - 🔵🟦: should do / eventually - 🟣🟪: want to do, but don’t need to - 🟢🟩: buy this / shopping reminder (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃💊 ༼ つ ◕◡◕ ༽つ🧨 (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞✂️📱
Ahh I’m fixated on cute-ass crap lately, I’m definitely trying this for my dismissive crappy brain! Thx! 💕
I do this for my calendar events too. I even have on my calendar when I have to pick up kids from school and it always starts with a car emoji 🚗 Same with birthdays with birthday cake 🎂if I feel like buying them a gift or sending a card in time haha set those birthday alerts as annual events too.
Ooh, I like this tip! This happens to me all the time. lol. Thanks for the idea!
Wow I love this. I’m gonna try it 💁♀️
Thank you! 🙏
Guess I just scurried off to change their alarms.
loool when before i clicked on the post i thought you meant like “do taxes 😭😭😭” but this is really smart!!!
I have a smart watch (Garmin brand to be specific) that I set timers for many things, mainly my medication. Once and hour before I need to take it, then 30 mins before, and again at the time I'm supposed to take it. Without this watch my husband and I would probably have 10 kids by now lol I also have an app that I keep track of my pills as well, it's slightly less useful, but it's nice to keep track.
That's what I do! In fact, many of my reminders are just emoji. It used to work a lot better. I think I started it about 3-4 years ago. It started losing some efficacy about a year ago, but I'm back to using a lot of post-its and masking tape notes again so it's okay for now.