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Event vs. task vs. alarm
One question separates them: is a specific time fixed, and does that time consume you?
- Event — A fixed time you cannot spend on anything else — a meeting, an appointment. It belongs in a calendar and may be shared with other people.
- Task — Something to do, but you choose when. A deadline may exist without binding you to a specific hour.
- Alarm — A moment that has to interrupt you — waking up, taking medication, leaving the house. You are not spending that time, only receiving a signal.
The most common mistake is filing every task as an event. Once your calendar fills with plans you do not keep, the real appointments lose credibility too.
Choosing between them
Two questions settle most cases. First: could someone else claim this time from me? If not, it is not an event. Second: is it fine if I miss the notification at that moment? If not, it is an alarm.
"Finish the report this week" is a task. "Team review Friday at 3" is an event. "Take medication Thursday at 8pm" is an alarm. Mixing the three blurs what each signal means.
In Noti you can pull any of the three out of a single note, so you do not have to decide while writing. Decide when you extract.
Alarms in Noti
Alarms come in three shapes.
- Once — Fires at the next occurrence of that time — today if it has not passed, otherwise tomorrow.
- A specific date — Pinned to a calendar date. Once it passes, it does not ring again.
- Weekly repeat — Pick the weekdays — weekdays only, weekends, Tuesdays and Thursdays. This is what shift schedules and class timetables use.
Quiet hours and notification fatigue
Notifications usually start getting ignored at night. One alert during sleep teaches you to dismiss the important one the next morning. Noti treats 10pm to 7am as quiet hours by default: notifications still appear, but without sound or vibration.
The second lever is fewer alarms with sharper times. "Call them in the afternoon" is worse than "call them at 3:20." A vague time cannot be acted on at that time, so it gets snoozed, and snoozed alarms erode trust in all of them.
Third, do not stack an alarm and an event reminder on the same thing. Two alerts for one moment make both meaningless.
Creating alarms from notes
Write something like "alarm 7am tomorrow" and it is recognized as an alarm rather than an event, because the sentence names an alarm.
An alarm created from a note remembers its parent. Open it later and you can see why you set it — which cuts down on the "7am alarm, no idea what for" problem.
Notifications require granting permission once on the device or browser. Without it, you only see alarms when the app is open.
Frequently asked questions
Can tasks have notifications?
Create an alarm from the task. For deadline-bound work, pairing the two is the reliable option.
Do alarms fire when the app is closed?
Yes, once notification permission is granted. If notifications are blocked at the OS level, they will not arrive.
Can I turn quiet hours off?
Yes, or change the window in settings. The default is 10pm to 7am.
Do alarms sync to Google Calendar?
No. Alarms live in Noti and travel between your devices through your account.