When MakeTimeFlow puts something on your calendar, it does **not** add a default reminder/alert. This is deliberate. Here's how we think about it. ## Tasks Are Not Meetings A **meeting** with another person needs a reminder — you might miss it, and someone else is depending on you showing up. A **task block** is different. It's a visualisation of where you've decided your time will go. The reminder for a task block isn't a calendar popup — it's: - **BeginWell** — your morning ritual that walks you into the day's plan - **Focus mode** — the immersive screen you enter when you start a timer - **The outliner** — the source of truth for what you're doing next - **The @next bucket** — the small, curated list of what's queued up These already pull your attention to the right task at the right moment. A 15-minute popup on top of all that is noise, not signal. ## The Math of Time-Blocking If you only have 2–3 meetings on your calendar each day, default reminders are great — you want a nudge before each one. But heavy time-blockers schedule 8–12 task blocks a day. That's 8–12 popups, every day, for things you already know about because *you just put them there*. We'd rather your calendar stay quiet so the few alerts you do get (real meetings, deadlines, things scheduled by other people) actually mean something. ## Coming Soon: Tasks vs Events We're working on a way to mark something you create in MakeTimeFlow as either a **task** (a chunk of your own time you're committing) or an **event** (something with other people, or something you might genuinely forget about). When that lands: - Tasks will continue to sync with no reminder. - Events will pick up your calendar's default reminder, the same way a manually-created meeting does. For now: everything we sync is treated as a task block, and runs quiet. ## If You Disagree We made this choice to fix a noisy default. If you'd rather your task blocks behave like meetings and get default reminders, let us know — we read every reply. If enough people want it the other way, we'll add a per-calendar toggle.