Oh gosh. App of the Day in most of Europe and South America. Such a lovely surprise.

finally published this visual article on dithering (part 1)! I had so much fun and learned a lot while making this. not only about dithering, but also about @threejs.org shaders. as usual, animated with @animejs.com enjoy! 🔗 visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...

To use the new ‘Urgent’ alarms in 26.2 with Remind Me Faster, tap on the ‘Added’ confirmation to go to that reminder, and you can toggle it on from there.

Smoother list swiping, and faster app startup (again). Remind Me Faster 6.2 is available now. apps.apple.com/gb/app/remin...

Remind Me Faster is 10 years old today. 🍰 Thank you so much to those who’ve reached out with kind words over the years. The feedback has motivated me to no end, and is partly why I’ve kept my focus on it. There are many more updates still to come.

Remind Me Faster 6.1 is available now. This is a quiet release. There are no new features. I’ve re-written the startup sequence (long overdue) which should reduce the occasional loading spinners. And there are various little areas of UI that have been polished. apps.apple.com/gb/app/remin...

Remind Me Faster is now available on macOS (Sequoia & Tahoe), with various layout optimisations for Mac and keyboard-first updates for key features. It’s a catalyst app, and a big step up from running the iOS version on Mac. I’m also aiming to make it feel more Mac-native over time.

Remind Me Faster 6.0 is out now on iOS. Details in 🧵→ (The macOS version is stuck in review - I’ll post again when it’s available) apps.apple.com/gb/app/remin...

Remind Me Faster 6.0 will be released tomorrow, Monday 15th Sep. It will bring liquid glass, two long-requested features, and a dedicated mac app.

This’ll be the first iOS redesign that Remind Me Faster has been around for. 1.0 was released in late 2015, well into the iOS 7 era. RMF has evolved significantly since, but this has been the culmination of many small steps, not linked to broader iOS visuals. Curious to see how this goes.

@pixeldetective.bsky.social Hey Khamosh👋. I make the iOS app Remind Me Faster, which you’ve previously written about on Lifehacker (thanks so much!). Are you interested in checking out a testflight for an iOS 26 update? No worries if not :)

I wonder to what extent the blue dot on updated apps inflates the monthly usage KPIs that many companies track. I know I sometimes open an app briefly just to clear the dot.

I have routine reminders I often set. They’re not repeat reminders, but I’ll often set a bunch in quick succession. The auto-complete in Remind Me Faster lets you add these really quickly, with no setup - it’ll search for reminders you create frequently and suggest them as you type.

Remind Me Faster 5.8 is available now, bringing Auto-Complete & Duplicate Detection. This one’s for all those reminders we enter again and again.

So there’s a hidden trick in Remind Me Faster: If you forget to add an alert, if you’re quick you can actually tap the ‘✔️ Added’ toast and it’ll take you to the reminder you just created, inside Apple Reminders. Should make it a little quicker to amend, when needed.

Small details in the next release — updated live activity designs, also optimised for watchOS ⌚️

Natural language input in RMF can be set to auto-select any date you type. No confirmation necessary. It can also distinguish between dates & time alerts automatically.

Did you know you can use smart playlists in Apple Music on iOS? You just need to create them on macOS first, then they’ll sync across. For 10 years I’ve had a ‘Rediscover’ smart playlist, which is the 100 loved tracks I’ve least recently played. Regularly unearths gems. Would recommend.

Remind Me Faster tip: Swipe left or right to quick-switch lists. Swipe down for a thumb-reachable list picker.

Remind Me Faster tip: If you overshoot a date slightly, long press a +h button to subtract, instead of add. This works with the new +5/10/15 min buttons too :)

The foundational premise of Remind Me Faster has always been that the *speed* of setting a reminder time is usually more important than the *accuracy* of the reminder time. If it takes too long to enter, life will distract you. Or worse, you may not even bother trying.

In 2021 I added location presets, which you can add to a reminder in 2 taps. I still find the interaction pretty satisying. I like to imagine the icon is unwinding and retracting the list of locations, as if they’re tied to a string on a spool.

I’m often distracted from setting a reminder. Mid-entry someone’ll ask me something, or a stray notification pulls me in. Once I’ve switched task I’ll often forget all about the reminder (the irony 🙃).

Remind Me Faster 5.7 is out now, with new options for customising time controls: • Increment buttons are customisable (+5m / 10m / 15m / 1h / 6h / 24h) • 4 time presets, up from 3. • 4 increment buttons, up from 3. • Slightly updated design.

Remind Me Faster 5.6 is rolling out now, bringing full localisation for French and German, and further improvements for Natural Language Input.

Very cool to see workarounds for adding tags to reminders while still using Remind Me Faster. If you've been missing tags, this could be an approach to consider. Coincidentally, a similar approach I heard recently was to search reminders for specific text (tags) and add actual tags to those.

‘I once imposed tariffs on an island only populated by penguins’

Remind Me Faster 5.5 is rolling out now, bringing significant Natural Language Input improvements: Lists, locations, priority, and smarter date detection. apps.apple.com/gb/app/remin...
 
🧵with details…

I’ve used Weathergraph for 2 years now and I love it more every month. Overlaying measurements is efficient but it can also show relationships, like cloud cover & temperature. ‘Feels like’ is also really pleasing (the vibrant lines descending from temp line). apps.apple.com/gb/app/weath...

This to me is the most striking finding on the depth of UK support for Ukraine. We know there is strong support for Ukraine in general but the fact that it even persists traded off against maintaining relations with for the US is a testament to how deep that support is.

A small detail in the next release: the dynamic island icon now uses the new RMF glyph, and dynamically reflects the colour of the current list. Rather liking how this looks.

I find it uplifting to know that, in this reactive, tasteless, AI-all-the-things tech landscape, there are still teams exploring delightful directions. I legitimately laughed out loud a couple of times here. Much appreciation to the team working on this. machinelearning.apple.com/research/ele...

The lunatic oligarch taking over the US certainly diminishes my drive to post about small things. But I’m gonna try to anyways.

Working on multiple things right now. May be a while before I post about some them, but excited nonetheless.

why is this so real rn

Be wary of anyone promising simple solutions to big problems.

I’m really quite thankful for Starmer’s govt right now. They’ve certainly made mistakes, but I think it’s clear they’re genuinely trying to do right by the country, and that feels increasingly rare today.

I typically don’t regard myself as a patriotic person. But nothing has made me more patriotic than the world’s richest dickhead attempting to overthrow democracy in my country.

Remind Me Faster 5.4 should be rolling out now. With the 5.X releases I’ve been rebuilding and polishing each corner of the app. I want every interaction to feel fluid and satisfying, while never getting in your way. Version 5.4 focuses on the core flow: time controls and list gestures. 🧵…

🇪🇺 Hey EU followers 👋 Remind Me Faster is now also on Setapp Mobile, an app marketplace in the European Union. It’s kinda like a netflix-for-indie-apps. One monthly sub for full access to 50+ apps, and the fee goes to the apps you use each month.

Runner-up best app update 🥹 Gosh, that’s lovely. Thank you! Brilliant set of apps all-round here. 👏

An app I’ve been really enjoying lately is the new(ish) habit tracker ‘Checker’ by @mykolaharmash.bsky.social. I look forward to tapping these widgets every day, which recently gained some lovely background colour tinting.

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

Remind Me Faster 5.3 should be rolling out now. A smaller release, but it brings: • A configurable Lock Screen shortcut. • A new default glyph for the Lock Screen and Control Center shortcuts. You can change this if you prefer. • Full date picker improvements. • Various other fixes.