You probably wonder what those “🌅 Beginning of Day”, “🍛 After lunch”, and “🌃 End of Day” reminders really mean. Well, that’s up to you - you can configure these times to match your regular workday.
Open App Home, click “⚙️ Personal Settings”
You can see “Reminder times” section there. Click on the Beginning of Day’s “9:00 AM” option
Click on the option that best suits your workflow. Let’s start early and select 7:00 AM
“Save”
Next task reminder set for the Beginning of Day will be sent at 7:00 AM your local time
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Similarly configurable are the default reminders for new tasks where you’re an assignee. They work both when you create tasks for yourself, and when someone else creates tasks for you.
Open “⚙️ Personal Settings” from App Home. You can see the “Default reminders” section
Let’s remove those 2 options by clicking “×” next to them, and select “9:00 AM” as the sole default reminder
“Save”
Click “🆕 New task” to open a new task form modal
You can see the reminder, by default, was set to “9:00 AM” - as configured
If your colleagues, like erica, assign a task to you, it will also respect your default reminders. Let’s see how it looks from erica’s perspective and open a new task form modal as them
Update assignee to you - alex
The “9:00 AM” reminder has replaced the previous ones.
Default reminders are also set when using the “Do today” message shortcut.
Hover over a message, click “⋮ More actions”
Click “Do today”
The task has been created for you with your default reminder.
Checking this option will set new task’s project to message channel by default.
Check “Default project to message’s channel” and click “Save”
Trigger “Add task” message shortcut
You can see the default channel was set to #important-business-channel, where the message is
“Cancel” the form and trigger “Do today” message shortcut
The taks has been added with #important-business-channel set as a project
And the Primary Project Message was sent to channel
Go back to Personal Settings, check “Default project to message’s channel” off, and “Save”
Now when you trigger the “Add task” message shortcut…
… project will be empty - saving task in this form will create a private task, just for you.
Checking this option will add message’s author as a watcher when creating a task from a message.
Check “Default watcher to message’s author” and click “Save”
Trigger “Add task” message shortcut