Setting Up Notifications
How to enable check-in reminders on desktop, Android, and iPhone so you never miss a window.
What a reminder is here
Three check-ins a day is exactly the kind of thing an ADHD brain does not do on its own. Not because it does not care. Because 1 pm arrives and the morning is already gone. A reminder is a small tap on the shoulder at a time you picked, and it goes quiet the moment you have already logged that window.
A reminder is a nudge, never a scold. There is no streak to protect and nothing to catch up on. If you skip three, the fourth says the same thing the first one did.
The question after your first check-in
Right after your first reading saves, the app asks whether you want a nudge tomorrow, and offers a time near the one you just used. Pick one and that is your daily reminder, once a day, at that hour. Pick "I'll come back on my own" and nothing is scheduled. Either answer can be changed later in Settings.
What is in Settings
Open Settings and tap Notifications.
- The main switch. Off means nothing arrives, full stop.
- Daily reminder. One a day at your time. Tap the time to move it.
- Use three windows instead. Morning, afternoon and evening reminders, each with its own time, if you would rather log three times a day. In this mode a quiet stretch gets one gentle line on day three, day six and day nine, then the app stops asking.
- Daily summary. A short evening close-out on days you logged. Off unless you turn it on.
- Weekly recap. One read of your week on Sunday evening: which part of the day carried it and how many readings went in. A week with no check-ins gets nothing.
Every reminder skips itself when you have already logged that window, so a busy day does not turn into a noisy one.
If nothing arrives
On iPhone the app can be set up and still be blocked by the phone. When that happens a banner on Home says reminders are not getting through and takes you to the phone's own notification settings for NeuroSpicy. Turn Allow Notifications on there and the schedule picks up on the next app open.
On Android the same setting lives under App info, Notifications, for the "Check-ins & summaries" channel.
What the reminders say
The lines change with your week. A quiet few days, a bright streak, a heavy yesterday and a peak day each get their own words, and no line repeats on two days running. None of them will tell you what you missed.
