Reminders

A reminder has a title and a due date. A task is a reminder that has no due date. You write the title and the description in Markdown. You can also add tags, references, and files.

To add, edit, or complete reminders, you need the Pro plan or the trial. On the Free plan, you can still read and delete your reminders. See Pricing.

Add a reminder

In the menu, open Reminders, then Add.
Type a title. If you want, type a description. You can use Markdown in both.
For a reminder, check the due date and the due time. The Add page starts with 30 minutes from now. For a task, clear the due date.
If you want, choose a recurrence.
If you want, open Tags and references. There you can add tags, URL references, and files to upload in File references.
Select Save reminder. Dushed opens the new reminder.

A task list in the description, such as - [ ] Call Alice, shows as a checkbox. To tick the checkbox, edit the description and change [ ] to [x].

Time zones

Dushed uses the time zone of your account for due dates, for recurrence, and to find the reminders that are due today. Dushed gets this time zone from your browser when you create your account. The Add and Edit pages show it below the due time.

Recurrence

A reminder can recur daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. A task cannot recur.

Daily: at the same time on the next day.
Weekly: on the same day of the week, at the same time.
Monthly: on the same day of the month, at the same time. If a month does not have that day, Dushed uses the last day of that month. For example, a reminder on 31 January recurs on 28 February, and then on 31 March.
Yearly: on the same day and month, at the same time. A reminder on 29 February recurs on 28 February in other years.

The dates of a recurring reminder do not change when you complete it early or late. If you complete it after more than one date has passed, Dushed moves it to its next date in the future.

Complete a reminder

Open the reminder and select Complete. If the reminder recurs, Dushed moves it to its next date. You can complete a recurring reminder on its due date or after it.

If you complete a reminder by mistake, open it and select Mark incomplete. For a recurring reminder, edit its due date.

Alerts

When a reminder is due, Dushed sends you an alert. A task gets no alert. Alerts need the Pro plan or the trial.

Email: Dushed sends an email to the address of your account. The email has the title and the due date of the reminder, and a link to it.
Browser: Dushed also shows a notification in each browser where you turn on notifications. Open Reminders, then List, and select Turn on browser notifications. When the browser asks, allow notifications. Do this in each browser that you use. To stop the notifications in a browser, select Turn off browser notifications in that browser.

On an iPhone or an iPad, a browser notification needs dushed on the Home Screen. In Safari, open dushed, select Share, then Add to Home Screen. Open dushed from the Home Screen, sign in, and turn on browser notifications there.

Dushed sends one alert for each due date. If you do not complete a recurring reminder, it gets no more alerts until you complete it. When you complete it, the next due date gets an alert. To stop the alerts of a reminder, remove its due date, or delete it.

You can snooze a reminder. This will surface the browser notification again later. Snooze only shows after Dushed has sent a browser notification for the current due date. After 30 minutes, Dushed shows the notification again in each browser where you turned on notifications. Snooze does not send another email, and it does not change the due date or the recurrence. You can snooze the same notification again.

On some browsers, Snooze button is not shown in the notification. On these browsers, snooze from the reminder page or the list. To snooze from a notification, the browser must be signed in to Dushed.

Find a reminder

In the menu, open Reminders, then List. Reminders with a due date are at the top, with the earliest due date first. Then come the reminders without a due date, with the newest first. Completed reminders are at the bottom. To open one, select Manage.

You can also search for reminders. To show only reminders, add type:reminder to the search.

Edit or delete a reminder

Open the reminder, then select Edit or Delete.

If you change the due date or the recurrence, the recurrence starts again from the new due date. A completed reminder cannot recur. To make it recur, select Mark incomplete first.

To stop a recurring reminder, edit it and choose None for recurrence, or delete it.

Import and export reminders

Dushed imports and exports reminders as iCalendar files (.ics). This is the standard file format for tasks. Thunderbird, Evolution, Nextcloud Tasks, and other task apps can read and write it.

In the menu, open Reminders, then Import / export.

To export, select Export ICS. Dushed downloads reminders.ics. You can export on every plan.
To import, choose one or more .ics files, then select Import reminders. Together, the files must not be larger than 30 MB. To import, you need the Pro plan or the trial.

When you import reminders:

Dushed uses the time zone of your account. The due date and time stay the same moment in time.
A due date without a time gets the time 9:00 AM.
A reminder that recurs daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly keeps its recurrence. A reminder with another recurrence, for example every two weeks or only five times, becomes a reminder that does not recur.
A completed reminder stays completed. A cancelled reminder is not imported.
The tags and the links of each reminder become tags and references.
If a reminder in the file has no title, or Dushed cannot read its due date, Dushed imports nothing from the files.
Dushed skips the reminders that you already have. It finds them by the UID that task apps give to each reminder. Dushed keeps your version of a reminder that it skips. A reminder in the file that has no UID is always imported.

The exported file also has an alert at the due time of each open reminder, so that other apps show the reminder when it is due.

The exported file also has a calendar event for each open reminder with a due date. Calendar apps that import only events, such as Google Calendar, import these events. Apps that import tasks and events, such as Thunderbird, show each of these reminders as a task and as an event. When you import the file into Dushed, Dushed reads only the tasks.