Guides to getting reminders out of WhatsApp, and the occasional look at what people actually set them for. We only publish numbers we measured ourselves.
WhatsApp still cannot do this. What works on Android and iPhone, what each workaround costs you, and the question most people are really asking.
The deals you lose are not to a better pitch. They are to a follow-up you meant to send on Tuesday and remembered on Friday.
The problem was never finding an app. It is that capture costs too much at the exact moment you have none to spare.
Sixteen tools, sorted by the job rather than by star rating. We make one of them, and say so before the list.
Drinking water is the single biggest slice of our database: 602 reminders. Here is the setup that survives past week one.
Chasing a person is the most widespread thing anyone does with us. More people do it than set water reminders, which have eight times the volume.
The calendar alert fires ten minutes before, which is the wrong time. The useful reminder is the one telling you to prepare.
The gym app's notification stopped working for you in week two. This one arrives in the thread you actually read.
Doses, refills and appointments, arriving as texts instead of a notification you swipe away.
Every way to get a reminder out of WhatsApp, including the three workarounds that quietly don't work.
Rent, EMIs, recharges and renewals: how to set the ones that repeat so you stop paying late fees.
A yearly nudge the day before, in the same app you're going to send the wishes from.
Setting up reminders on a parent's phone when they already use WhatsApp and won't install anything else.
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