Reminders

Reminders are custom, recurring nudges you create for the habits around your training — hydrating, strength work, wind-down, foam rolling, and anything else you want to do consistently. Each reminder has a name, an optional description, an emoji, and a schedule, and NexRex delivers it as a push notification, on your Home screen, or both. Reminders are separate from the AI-generated Daily reminder that summarises your plan. Those AI toggles are covered in Choose which AI insights & reminders you receive.

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Open your reminders

1. Open the NexRex app.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Tap Reminders.

The screen groups your reminders into Active and Paused sections with counts, and a header line tells you when your next nudge is due. If you have no reminders yet, you’ll see the template gallery so you can start from a curated runner habit. Completed one-time reminders and todos move to a Finished section at the bottom of the list. Finished items can’t be paused or resumed. Swipe to delete them when you no longer need them.

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Create a reminder

Tap Add reminder to open the template gallery, then either pick a template or tap Create custom reminder to start from scratch.

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Start from a template

The gallery ships 11 curated runner-habit templates grouped into Training, Fuel, Recovery, and Habits — for example Easy run, Strength session, Hydrate, Post-run refuel, Photo your meals, Wind-down, Mobility, Soreness check-in, Foam roll & massage, Morning weigh-in, and Weekly check-in. Each template card carries a one-line hook. Tapping it opens a detail sheet with a Why it matters explanation and two paths:

• Add to my reminders — saves the template as-is with its suggested schedule.
• Customize schedule — opens the editor pre-filled with the template so you can adjust the time, days, or wording first.

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Build your own

The editor starts with an identity card:

• Emoji — a single emoji that represents the habit. It leads the reminder everywhere it appears, including push notifications.
• Name — what the nudge says, for example Fill the bottle.
• Description — optional supporting text.

Then set the schedule:

• Repeats — choose Once, Daily, Weekly, or Todo. A todo has no date or time. It stays on your list until you complete it, and it never sends a push notification.
• Date — one-time reminders need the date they fire.
• On these days — weekly reminders need at least one weekday. Tap the circular day tokens to toggle days on and off. The Save button stays disabled until at least one day is selected.
• Time — the local time of day the reminder is due, shown with its timezone. Todos don’t have a time.

Schedules are timezone-aware. NexRex stores the IANA timezone with the schedule (detected from your device), so a 07:00 reminder stays at 07:00 local time when you travel.

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Edit, pause, or delete a reminder

From the list screen:

• Tap a reminder to open the editor and change any field. Existing reminders also gain a destructive Delete row at the bottom of the editor.
• Pause or resume a reminder with its toggle. Paused reminders move to the Paused section and stop being delivered until you re-enable them.
• Swipe a reminder to delete it. A confirmation dialog appears before anything is removed.
• Discuss with Rex — the editor for an existing reminder has a Discuss with Rex action. It opens a chat with a draft message that starts About followed by the reminder name so you can ask Rex to reschedule, reword, or talk through the habit.

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Ask Rex to manage todos and reminders

You can create and manage todos and follow-up reminders by chatting with Rex. For example:

• Remind me to book a sports massage on Friday at 6pm.
• Add a todo to buy new trail shoes.
• Move my massage reminder to Saturday morning.
• I booked the massage, mark it done.
• Cancel the shoe reminder.

Rex can create, reschedule, complete, or cancel reminders. If you give a date or time, Rex creates a one-time reminder. If you don’t, Rex adds an undated todo. If the timing is ambiguous, Rex asks you a short question first. Rex only completes one-time reminders and todos. Complete recurring reminders from Home or the digest instead. After each change, Rex shows a confirmation card in the chat, such as Added to your reminders, Reminder rescheduled, Marked complete, or Reminder cancelled. Each card shows the reminder text and its schedule (or No date set for a todo). Tap Manage reminders on the card to open that reminder in the editor. Rex only shows the card after NexRex has saved the change. Reminders Rex creates are the same reminders you see in the app and on the web console.

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Delivery preferences

Delivery preferences are account-wide and apply to all of your reminders. Open them from the Delivery preferences action on the Reminders screen. The two channels are independent toggles:

• Push notification — NexRex sends a push when the reminder is due. Delivery follows your reminder settings and quiet hours, so it isn’t an exact-time alarm.
• Home planner — due reminders appear in a Reminders section on your Home screen.

Each channel has a Preview action so you can see exactly what you’d receive before committing:

• The push preview shows a notification-style banner in the app, labelled PREVIEW, and dismisses itself automatically.
• The Home planner preview shows a static mock of how the reminder card appears on your home screen.

Previews never change your settings — the toggles only save when you tap Save. The Push notification toggle is your saved preference in NexRex. It’s separate from your phone’s notification permission. If notifications for NexRex are turned off on your device, the delivery sheet shows Device notifications are off. Your reminders still appear on Home. Tap Open device settings to turn them back on. The message disappears when you return to the app with permission granted.

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Open a reminder from a notification

Tapping a reminder push notification opens the Reminders screen with that reminder’s editor already open. If the reminder no longer exists, NexRex opens the Reminders list instead.

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Due reminders on Home

When Home planner delivery is on, today’s due reminders appear in a Reminders section on the Home screen. Open todos appear here too, labelled No date set. Each entry has two actions:

• Complete — marks today’s occurrence done.
• Skip — dismisses today’s occurrence without completing it.

Completing or skipping a recurring reminder only affects that day’s occurrence. The reminder keeps its schedule and fires again at the next occurrence. Completing a todo or one-time reminder moves it to the Finished section of the Reminders screen. Once per day, when you land on Home with pending nudges, NexRex also shows a digest — One nudge for today or N nudges for today — listing what’s due or coming up. You can complete items directly in the digest, tap Manage reminders to jump to the Reminders screen, or tap Got it to dismiss it until tomorrow.

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Reminders on the web console

The web console has the same reminders under Settings → Reminders. The Runner reminders page shows your Push notifications and Home planner delivery toggles plus your Active and Paused reminders, each with enable/pause, edit, and delete controls. Creating or editing a reminder opens a form with the same template gallery and fields as the app: name, emoji, description, Repeats (Daily, Weekly, One time), time, weekday picker, and date for one-time reminders. Changes sync both ways — a reminder created on the web fires on your phone, and pauses made in the app show up on the web.

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Troubleshooting