Ive been using the GoSMS scheduled SMS - and sending texts to myself to act as a reminder with the pop-up notifications.
Works pretty well, but it is a bit of a hassle going through the process of setting up the scheduled text.
I recently discovered COL Reminder, which does do exactly as i want - but the UI isn't as stylish as i would like.
Any.DO is pretty good too, using the task list and having pop-up reminders when set.
Does anyone know of any other reminder apps which have pop-up notifications (rather than just the status bar icon notification)?
Appreciate any input.
If you don't mind having to involve a PC, Google Calendar supports SMS notification. But this is only settable from the web based interface. Too bad Google's so lax with the Android frontend--one gripe of mine is that you can't even book a bi-weekly meeting without the web-based version.
I digress...hope this helps and good luck.
- chris
Business Calendar Free is a good app to use as a to-do list and set reminders.
thanks for the replies guys,
cttttt - it is handy to know that Google Calendar can alert my by sending texts, though im afraid it is a little impractical for what i require.
muqtaliff - i have played around with business calendar in the past. but havent found away to enable pop-up notifications for reminders. how can this be done?
thanks again fellas.
In Business Calendar, go to settings, scroll down "Settings for New Events" and choose the Default Reminder Time (On Time/5 Minutes etc). Save the settings and test it out with an entry.
I use Tasks N Todos. Supports Notification Bar pop-ups, ringtone, and vibration reminders. Also syncs with Google Tasks.
Astrid Tasks is also pretty good.
but i am guessing with some addons u can give yourself location based reminders too..
Hey guys,
Im afraid i mustn't have made myself clear when describing what i am looking for... when i say "pop-up" reminder notification, i mean a notification which appears as a "pop-up" on the screen, not just an icon in the status bar.
Ive attached a couple of screen shots from Any.DO and COL Reminders to illustrate the feature.
Cheers.
Popup Notifier
Hey guys,
for anyone still interested, i have found a pretty useful app which does serve my purposes.
Let me just give you a little background as to why this is useful to me.
I have a few ways that I manage 'to do' type lists on my phone....
- I use Springpad to manage shopping lists. These are short term to-do lists which require no reminders but can be viewed and edited when the shopping is done.
- Any.Do is how i manage my long term to do list (synced with Google Tasks). I use these 'tasks' more like long-term notes. If someone recommends a band or album to me, i'll note in in Any.Do. If i have an idea for some art, i'll note in in Any.Do. These tasks/notes also do not require reminders.
Now... the one thing I had been missing (kind-of) was the ability to set short & long term reminders which gave me a pop-up notification. For things like "call mum on her birthday", "buy concert tickets when they go on sale", "put the bins out", etc. You would think that for tasks like this - it would be as easy as creating an 'appointment' in Google calendar and having a reminder set... this is only half true. Creating an appointment and setting a reminder is the easy part - sometimes actually being reminded by that reminder is not so easy. The way i see it, the little notification icon in the status bar is not sufficient as a reminder. These icons can easily queue up, and the status bar is normally pretty cluttered with other icons. So if you're anything like me - you don't pay too much attention to the status bar. The feature that is missing, is the ability to have an on-screen pop-up notification to remind us of all these 'appointments' we need to keep.
This is where Popup Notifier comes in. It is a pretty simple idea, which is very well implemented. This app will allow you to enable pop-up notifications for a variety of apps which may need them (SMS, Missed Calls, CALENDAR, etc).
So with this addon app, we can now create reminders through our calendar apps, and we will be notified of these reminders with not-so-easily-ignored pop-up windows.
Hopefully this will help a few peeps who share my reminder-related sentiments.
I look forward to hearing feedback and opinions of other peoples experiences.
cheers.
Reminder
Well, I recommend to Mr. Reminder Application for android users that can set for any reminding any event/occasion/day/date.
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I guess nobody actually uses calendar? I started using it for the first time yesterday and to my chagrin you can't dismiss an individual notification! I have to say google fails at executing terribly....really annoying...
I've been using the free Calendar Snooze for over a year. Besides having a snooze setting, each reminder pops up on its own, so you have to dismiss them individually. http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/calendar-snooze_gjro.html
I know I'm resurrecting an old topic here, but it's been a year and its very disappointing that this hasn't been implemented yet. I can't imagine it would be that difficult to be able to swipe away a single reminder from maybe reminder list. It's not a problem if I have one or two notifications, but when it groups them into one, I have to go into it, select the reminder, then dismiss, and repeat for each one. If I have 5 reminders and only need one, it's far more difficult to get rid of the four than it should be. Very surprised it's made it to jelly bean without this feature.
So I watching WWDC 2014 yesterday and really liked the Actionable Notification for SMS (dont care about other apps). IMO, its an essential part of phone and I really liked this feature. Anyways, for months now I been trying to find a popup quick reply app that lets me quick reply from lockscreen on my Nexus 5 running CM11. Some stuff I found was SMS popup which didnt work to good on handling multiple messages. I used EvolveSMS for a long time since it would unlock the screen to show you the popup sms and once you hit send it would bring you back to lock screen. However I was looking for something like ChompSMS where it did that but it gave me option to customize my popup menu, I have to option to open, close, reply, delete etc (I can customize buttons) for my popup screen. Plus I can swipe from one message to another if multiple are popping up at the same time. However I was more in line of something Apple introduced, simple and yet elegant, just sms straight from notification bar, pull down and type.
Anything like that?
Hi, I've been using Hover for a bit and am loving it. The only slight gripe I have about it is that when I get a message through Facebook messenger, it always shows me the "chat heads active" notification before the actual message. What would be really useful is if you could blacklist these hidden (permanent? Not sure what the word is, see the attached picture) notifications that come from some apps (Google Now does it too) but still allow "normal" notifications through. This would also be really useful with peek: I'm assuming that whenever I get a Google Now notification like this, saying the weather or something my device is waking up to poll sensors etc. This isn't necessary, but I don't want to blacklist the whole app as other notifications (reminders etc.) are useful and I'd like to be able to Peek at.
Sorry if this doesn't make a lot of sense, it's rather hard to describe. I know hover and peek are relatively new features and I have no idea how hard this would be to implement, but if possible it would be great
Thanks for all your great work on this ROM!
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Hi, I've been using Hover for a bit and am loving it. The only slight gripe I have about it is that when I get a message through Facebook messenger, it always shows me the "chat heads active" notification before the actual message. What would be really useful is if you could blacklist these hidden (permanent? Not sure what the word is, see the attached picture) notifications that come from some apps (Google Now does it too) but still allow "normal" notifications through. This would also be really useful with peek: I'm assuming that whenever I get a Google Now notification like this, saying the weather or something my device is waking up to poll sensors etc. This isn't necessary, but I don't want to blacklist the whole app as other notifications (reminders etc.) are useful and I'd like to be able to Peek at.
Sorry if this doesn't make a lot of sense, it's rather hard to describe. I know hover and peek are relatively new features and I have no idea how hard this would be to implement, but if possible it would be great
Thanks for all your great work on this ROM!
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Long hold notification > App Info > Blacklist > Blacklist from Hover/Blacklist from Peek
Sorry, got ahead of myself.
in fact the google now notification is not a persistent one, just it does show up very frequently, and sadly there is no option on which updates we'd like to receive
had the same problem with facebook messenger, just blacklisted the whole app because as there is a chat head hover notification would be useless
So, fresh out of ios for the last few years I really got use to Google maps having banner notifications while in a different app and navigating.
It seems this is missing on the Android app. It must be doable because I get banner notifications for my phone and music apps.
Curious if anyone has any insight on why this great feature is missing, and if there's any word on it possibly being added.
Anyone have any info at all? Even a Google request page where this is being discussed would be cool. I can't find a thing about on the Web, an it seems like a significant thing to be missing.
They don't do the banner notifications in Android because it's in the notification drawer. Just have to swipe the status bar down to see it.
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They don't do the banner notifications in Android because it's in the notification drawer. Just have to swipe the status bar down to see it.
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Hmmmm.... I will give that a shot, but they do banner notification for a couple apps. Phone comes to mind immediately.
Pulling down the drawer is a huge distraction, as is muting the navi voice when a call comes in.
I feel that a banner over my other apps would be more distracting. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
I don't see how on earth directions a person is relying on being hidden is less distracting than being visible. But ya.... Different strokes I suppose.
Given the fact it's on ios and not Googles own OS makes me wonder. I mean, ios is known for having more polished apps, and also known for having better Google Apps in some cases.
Because when I use Maps, it's connected to Bluetooth in my car, thus having no need to see directions. It also tells me where to go via voice controls. If you need to see the directions, why would you be in another app anyway? I sometimes pop into the directions to see a head of time if I'm at a stoplight or something, but just have to double click on the lockscreen notification or the notification drawer and good to go.
To add insult to injury, Google maps will flash a banner notification telling me the route is 'clear', or 'being rerouted'. So..... It seems very very possible to throw in the upcoming turn banner notifications as well.
And for those who use an ear piece, or no blue tooth at all an auto mute function would be so nice.
I just don't understand the lack of these features or the lack of people who find their absence not inconvenient at the least. *sigh *
Hi all. I've seen a few posts around this, but not asking the same questions I have. I'm new to the Mate 10 Pro but I've used a long list of other Android phones. This MIUI is really starting to bother me.
One of the issues I have not been able to overcome is around customizing sound notifications. I'm not a fan of the default Huawei Messaging app, the Mail app, or the Calendar app. I attempted to switch back to Google apps for all f these, but I immediately found issues.
When using the Huawei Calendar app, my shared calendars were not being shown and were not listed in the available calendars to show. I installed the Google Calendar app and was able to go in and select them. At that point, all my shared calendars showed in both apps. I uninstalled the Google Calendar (thinking I just couldn't find the setting in the Huawei app), but then my shared calendars disappeared from the Huawei app. I installed the Google Calendar, and had to go in and select the shared calendars again, in order to get them to show. So now I am using the Google Calendar, but I set a notification for appointment reminders, and it still defaults to the default sound. If I go into the Huawei app, I can see my custom sound, but if I go into the Google Calendar, the option to set a custom sound is not available (not greyed out, just missing). My other Oreo phone running straight Android has the option.
On the Huawei Messaging app, I found I didn't care for the look/feel, so I switched back to the Google app. However, it has the same issue as the Google Calendar app. I go in to set a custom notification sound, and the option is missing. Again, it's not just grayed out, it's not there.
I was able to use the Gmail app and set my custom notification sounds for each mail account, so I know it's possible with SOME third-party apps, just not all.
I had set my theme to use a darker color, but inside the Google apps, they still default to the white colors, so this gave a little bit of a hint. If I go into the Google Calendar app (very white interface despite my theme settings), click the hamburger bars in the top-left, go to Settings, click General, scroll down to Notifications (Notify on this device is ON), click Calendar notifications, I get sent to the Huawei Notifications Management page for the Google Calendar app (dark theme, matching the rest of my Huawei theme). I can enable the Ringtone notification, but I cannot customize it. On or off, that's it. It's the same thing in the Google Calendar app.
Am I missing something here?
I don't think so. I just noticed this myself. Huawei's implementation of Oreo seems to have dropped the ability to customize your sound choice in the notification channels each app presents. You can turn the ringtone on or off, but not change the sound. Major-league fail on their part.
I'm glad it's not just me, this was driving me crazy. I'd agree, big miss on Huawei's part. Hopefully it'll be fixed in a coming update.
I wouldn't count on it. I've seen threads about it dating back to November. I'm using a third party app (eNotify) to customise my SMS notifications.