Smart reminders

A plain reminder goes off at its time whatever kind of day you are having. A smart reminder reads your day first, and only interrupts you when there is a reason to.

Let Tirzing suggest your reminders

1. On your dashboard or the Reminders page, choose Analyze my habits.
2. Tirzing reads the last two weeks (four for weigh-ins and workouts) and shows one card per kind of reminder, with what it found in plain words: “you reached your water goal on 3 of the last 14 days”, “you usually work out on Tuesday and Thursday, and missed 2 of those”.
3. Where a reminder would help, it is switched on with its times already chosen from your own day: just after you usually log lunch, just after your usual workout time. Where you are already consistent, it says so and suggests nothing.
4. Switch each one on or off, then save. Nothing changes until you do.

Run it again any time to re-tune: choose Re-analyze my habits on the Reminders page. It shows what you have now beside what it suggests, and after a month the Reminders page offers to re-tune for you. A new shot day needs no re-run: the move-earlier-after-a-shot check follows the shots you log. Reminders you set up or changed yourself stay exactly as they are unless you tick Replace.

What it checks

• Your own pace. On days you reach your protein goal you have usually had about half of it by mid-afternoon. At 3 pm a smart reminder compares today with that, and stays quiet if you are on track. You choose how far behind counts (10%, 20%, 30% or half), and a tiny shortfall never counts at all.
• The meals you actually eat. If you rarely log lunch, a lunch reminder waits until it is a habit, and the evening wrap-up leaves it out.
• The days you usually work out. A workout reminder speaks up on your usual days, not on the ones you always rest.
• Whether you have just logged something. It holds off for a while after you log, so it never lands the moment you put your phone down.
• Your shot. Appetite is lowest in the two days after a shot of your weight-loss medication, so water, protein and eating-enough checks move an hour earlier then, while there is still room in the day. Other shots, like B12, do not move anything.
• Two due together arrive as one notification: “Water and protein are both behind.”

Until there are about a week of days where you reached the goal, your pace is worked out from your waking hours instead (the end of your quiet hours to the start of them), and it switches to your own rhythm by itself as your history builds.

It learns what helps

A couple of hours after each reminder, Tirzing looks at whether it helped: did you log the thing it was about, or tap one of its buttons? Each reminder shows its record, like “helped 7 of 10”. One that goes out five times in a row without helping is eased off to every other day, and the Reminders page and your weekly report say so, with a button to turn it back up. The first time it helps again, it goes back to normal by itself.

Your weekly report also shows how many reminders went out, how many were held back because you were already on track, and how many helped.

In the Tirzing app

If you use Health Connect, the app syncs it just before showing a reminder, then checks again. So a glass of water logged in another app, or a workout your watch recorded, means the reminder never appears at all. It shows as held back on your Today strip.

Seeing its reasons

Every reminder shows what it would do right now and why: “At 30 g of 110 g so far. By 2:00 pm you usually have about 67 g, so you are behind. It would remind you.” The Today strip shows each one it held back, and the reason, so a quiet day is a day you were on track, not a day it forgot.