When MakeTimeFlow puts something on your calendar, it does not add a default reminder/alert. This is deliberate. Here’s how we think about it.
Tasks Are Not Meetings
A meeting with another person needs a reminder — you might miss it, and someone else is depending on you showing up.
A task block is different. It’s a visualisation of where you’ve decided your time will go. The reminder for a task block isn’t a calendar popup — it’s:
- BeginWell — your morning ritual that walks you into the day’s plan
- Focus mode — the immersive screen you enter when you start a timer
- The outliner — the source of truth for what you’re doing next
- The @next bucket — the small, curated list of what’s queued up
These already pull your attention to the right task at the right moment. A 15-minute popup on top of all that is noise, not signal.
The Math of Time-Blocking
If you only have 2–3 meetings on your calendar each day, default reminders are great — you want a nudge before each one. But heavy time-blockers schedule 8–12 task blocks a day. That’s 8–12 popups, every day, for things you already know about because you just put them there.
We’d rather your calendar stay quiet so the few alerts you do get (real meetings, deadlines, things scheduled by other people) actually mean something.
Coming Soon: Tasks vs Events
We’re working on a way to mark something you create in MakeTimeFlow as either a task (a chunk of your own time you’re committing) or an event (something with other people, or something you might genuinely forget about). When that lands:
- Tasks will continue to sync with no reminder.
- Events will pick up your calendar’s default reminder, the same way a manually-created meeting does.
For now: everything we sync is treated as a task block, and runs quiet.
If You Disagree
We made this choice to fix a noisy default. If you’d rather your task blocks behave like meetings and get default reminders, let us know — we read every reply. If enough people want it the other way, we’ll add a per-calendar toggle.