Adding a due date
A date picker is one click away on every item. Set the deadline alongside tags, summaries, and links. The item shows the date inline in the library, so you see what's due without opening anything.
Reminders
Add a due date and a reminder time to any item in Mindly. macOS notifications fire on your schedule, not on a generic morning blast. Free for every user, on every plan.
Free for all users · Native macOS notifications · Works offline
How it works
Four moments make up the entire flow. Each one is one click.
Open any note, task, file, or voice memo and click the date field. Pick the deadline. Mindly stores it alongside tags, summaries, and the rest of the item's metadata. The due date is independent from the reminder, so you can have either or both.
Choose when you actually want to be pinged. Mid-morning if that's when you act. The night before. Two hours ahead. Mindly does not impose a default time on you. You pick the moment that fits your working rhythm.
When the reminder fires, you see a standard macOS notification in your Notification Center. Click to jump straight to the item in Mindly. Dismiss with one keystroke. Snooze with the standard system menu.
Missed it? Need to push it? Open the item, change the date or time, done. The reminder updates immediately. No need to delete and recreate, no syncing across separate apps.
In the app
The reminder lives on the item it concerns. Not in a separate task list. Not in another app.
A date picker is one click away on every item. Set the deadline alongside tags, summaries, and links. The item shows the date inline in the library, so you see what's due without opening anything.
After the due date is set, choose exactly when the notification should fire. 9 AM the morning before. 2 hours before deadline. 8 PM Sunday for the Monday task. The reminder time is yours.
Native macOS notification, branded with Mindly's icon. Click to open the item directly. Dismiss with the standard keystroke. The notification works whether Mindly is open, closed, or backgrounded.
When this matters
Same engine, four very different rhythms.
Assignments, project deliverables, payment due dates, tax filings. Set the reminder for when you actually need to act, not when the deadline has already passed.
Action items from meetings, email replies you owe, calls you said you'd make. The reminder fires when context is fresh and you can do something about it.
Articles to read before a meeting, notes to review for a 1-on-1, materials you need at hand on a specific day. Reminder fires when prep matters.
When working memory is unreliable, the only safe bet is a system that pings you at the exact moment you said. Mindly lets you set that moment yourself.
Why Mindly
Most note apps treat reminders as an afterthought. Mindly built them as a first-class part of the library.
Not in-app popups that only appear if Mindly is open. Real macOS push that arrives in your Notification Center, with the standard system actions: click, snooze, dismiss. Mindly registers reminders with the OS so they fire whether the app is running or not.
The reminder belongs to the note, file, or voice memo it concerns. No app-switching to Apple Reminders. No orphaned tasks in a parallel system. When the notification fires, the relevant context is one click away.
Most reminder apps pick the time for you (9 AM, 1 hour before, etc.) and call it a feature. Mindly lets you set the exact moment. Parents of young children, night-owl thinkers, and ADHD users all benefit from setting their own rhythm.
No paywall on reminders. The Free tier gets the same notification engine as Pro. Adding due dates and reminder times does not consume your 25-item limit either: the reminder lives on the item, not as a separate save.
FAQ
Open the note, click the date field, pick a due date. Then choose the reminder time. Both are independent: you can have a due date with no reminder, or a reminder without a strict due date. The whole flow takes under five seconds.
Yes. Mindly registers the notification with macOS, so the system handles the scheduling. The reminder fires whether the app is open, closed, or running in the background. You do not need to keep Mindly running for reminders to work.
Yes. Standard macOS notification actions apply: click to open the item in Mindly, dismiss to clear it, or use the system snooze options to defer it.
Reminders are stored locally on your Mac. They fire whether or not your machine is connected to the internet. No cloud dependency for the notification engine.
Single-fire reminders are available now: pick a date and time, get one notification. Recurrence (daily, weekly, monthly patterns) is on the Mindly roadmap.
No. Reminders are part of the Free tier and available to every Mindly user. Pro plans get unlimited items, better AI summaries, voice transcription, and other features, but the reminder engine itself is the same across tiers.
Apple Reminders is a separate app that holds its own task list, disconnected from your notes, files, and saved content. Mindly's reminders live inside your library, attached to the actual item they concern. One app, one library, one source of truth. The reminder fires next to the context, not in a parallel app you have to switch into.
Mindly currently ships on macOS only. When iOS arrives, reminders will sync alongside the rest of your library through your Mindly account.
Yes. Reminders work on any item type in Mindly: notes, links, files, voice memos, screenshots, PDFs. If you can save it, you can put a due date and a reminder on it.
Pricing
Free
Native macOS notifications, due dates on any item, custom reminder times. Up to 25 items total in your library.
Pro
Same reminder engine plus unlimited items, better AI summaries, voice transcription, themes, and smarter suggestions.
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Get started
Add a due date and a reminder to the next task you save. macOS pings you exactly when you said it should.