Dates & reminders
Write dates the way you’d say them. Nomima turns them into live pills, tracks them across your whole vault, and can ping you when the moment arrives.
Date pills
Type a date or time in plain words and, the moment you follow it with a space, comma, period or Enter, it becomes a date pill. Recognized phrases include:
| You type | Nomima understands |
|---|---|
| tomorrow, yesterday, next Monday | Relative days |
| June 5, Jun 5 3pm | Explicit dates, with or without a time |
| in 3 days, in 2 hours, in 30 min | Relative offsets from now |
| 3pm, 14:00, at 3 p.m. | Times today |
| eod, end of day | Today at 6pm |
| after tomorrow | The day after tomorrow |
- Your words are kept. The pill shows what you wrote (“tomorrow”, “in 3 hours”) — Nomima stores the resolved moment behind it.
- Labels stay alive. Same-day pills count down (“in 15 min”) and update as time passes; day-level pills roll over at midnight (“tomorrow” becomes “today”).
- Overdue turns red. A past date on an unfinished block becomes overdue — and an inline “done?” shortcut appears so you can close it on the spot.
- Done turns grey. Once the block is complete, its dates show as done and stop nagging you.
Where dates show up
Every date pill is tracked vault-wide, automatically:
- Home — your daily agenda buckets everything into Overdue, Today, the next few days, and Later.
- Dates lens in Smart View — a full day-by-day agenda merging dated tasks and dates mentioned in prose, deduplicated, each with a completion checkbox.
- Smart Scrollbar — dated blocks get a calendar icon on the note’s minimap; overdue ones are red with a count.
- Home & Alerts — overdue and upcoming dated tasks surface on the Home sidebar item’s badges (a red count for overdue, an accent dot for upcoming) and in the Alerts lens of the Smart View switcher.
Reminders
A reminder is a block with a countdown and a desktop alert. Insert one with /reminder.
Setting one up
- Type what it’s about in the label — e.g. “call mom tomorrow 3pm”. The label is normal rich text: mentions, hashtags and date pills all work inside it.
- Make sure the label contains a date pill — that’s the due time.
- Press Enter to arm it. The countdown starts and the label locks so you can’t nudge it by accident.
Reminder states
| State | What you see |
|---|---|
| Idle | No due time yet — the label is fully editable and shows a “Remind me to…” placeholder. |
| Running | A live countdown ticking down to the due moment. |
| Overdue | Red, showing how long ago it fired (“2h overdue”). It stays visible until you act — reminders never silently complete themselves. |
| Done | The label greys out and is struck through, and the block gets a #complete pill carrying an “Incomplete?” toggle to reopen it. (Reminders are dismissed by completing or deleting them — there’s no separate cancelled state.) |
Controls
- Done — marks the reminder complete (stamping the block with #complete). To dismiss a reminder you complete it or delete the block — there’s no separate “clear”.
- Snooze — quick presets (30 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours, 1 day). Snoozing updates the date pill and the alert fires again at the new time.
- Reopen — a completed reminder goes back to editable via the “Incomplete?” toggle on its #complete pill.
Desktop notifications
Reminders fire real macOS notifications — and they work even when the note is closed. Nomima checks every 20 seconds in the background, fires each alert exactly once per due time, and clicking the notification brings the app to the front.
Where overdue items surface
Nomima has no separate notifications bell. Anything due or overdue surfaces in two places you already use — the badges on Home and the Alerts lens in Smart View.
- The Home sidebar item shows a red badge with the count of overdue reminders and tasks, or a subtle accent dot when only upcoming items exist.
- The Alerts lens in the Smart View switcher carries the same red count (or accent dot), and opening it shows everything in two sections — Overdue and Upcoming — each row with a one-click ✓ complete, a snooze (for overdue reminders) or dismiss (for upcoming ones), and a link to the source note.
Date pill vs. reminder — which one? Use a plain date pill when you want something tracked (it shows in agendas and turns red when missed). Use a reminder when you want to be interrupted at that moment with a notification.