Reminders, tasks and notes — shared with exactly the people you choose, and with nobody else.
What it does, how to install it on a phone or a computer, and the two settings that decide whether your nudges actually arrive. Five minutes, start to finish.
Tap + Nudge at the bottom of the screen. Everything you make is one of these.
A time, an optional repeat (daily, weekly or monthly), and an optional place. You get a notification when it's due — or when you arrive.
Tick them off from the list without opening them. Assign one to someone and it's shared with them automatically.
A wifi password, a packing list, a half-formed idea. No due date needed.
There's no App Store download — you install it straight from the website, and it behaves like any other app.
Go to nudgemelater.com. It has to be Safari — Chrome on iPhone can't install it.
The share button is the square with the arrow at the bottom. Scroll the menu to find Add to Home Screen, then tap Add.
From now on, always launch it from that icon, not from Safari. Sign in once and it stays signed in.
Inside the app: You → Notifications → Turn on notifications. Say yes when iPhone asks, then tap Send a test nudge.
Apple only allows notifications for a web app that's been added to the Home Screen. If you just bookmark the site in Safari, reminders will never notify you. Delete the icon later and notifications stop with it.
Same idea as iPhone — the website installs itself as a real app, with its own icon in your app drawer.
Go to nudgemelater.com and sign in.
Tap the three dots, then Install app (on some phones it says Add to Home screen). Confirm with Install.
Launch it from the icon from now on, not from a Chrome tab — that's what gives you the full-screen app and its own notifications.
Inside the app: You → Notifications → Turn on notifications. Allow it when Android asks, then tap Send a test nudge.
On Android the app arrives set to "Optimized", and that quietly blocks notifications whenever the app isn't open. The test nudge still works, so everything looks fine. It isn't.
Handy for typing up longer notes. It gets its own window, its own icon, and desktop notifications — and the steps are the same on all three.
Go to nudgemelater.com and sign in. On a Mac, Safari works too — see the note below.
It's the small screen-with-an-arrow at the right-hand end of the address bar. No icon? Use the three-dot menu: Edge has Apps → Install this site as an app, Chrome has Cast, save and share → Install page as app.
Windows: right-click the icon and choose Pin to taskbar. Mac: keep it in the Dock. Linux: it lands in your app launcher with everything else.
Inside the app: You → Notifications → Turn on notifications, allow it when the browser asks, and send a test nudge.
Do these once, on the device you'll actually be carrying.
Press and hold the app icon → App info → Battery → choose Unrestricted.
On Samsung, also check Settings → Battery → Background usage limits and make sure neither Nudge Me Later nor Chrome is in Sleeping or Deep sleeping apps.
Left on "Optimized", notifications only appear while the app is open on screen — and nothing warns you.
🍎 iPhone
Settings → Notifications → Nudge Me Later — allow them, and turn on Lock Screen and Banners so you actually see them.
Keep the Home Screen icon. Removing it removes notifications.
Check it isn't caught by a Focus mode during the hours you need nudging.
📍 Location nudges, on any phone
Allow location when the app asks — While Using the App is enough.
Be realistic about these: a location nudge fires when the app is open or recently used, not when it's been closed for hours. Use a time for anything you can't afford to miss.
The test button works even when background delivery is broken, because the app is open when you press it.
The real test: set a reminder two minutes out, close the app completely, and put the phone down. If that arrives, you're done.
Six things, in order.
Anything that doesn't make sense, just ask Rob.