The thoughts worth keeping tend to come when your hands are full: driving, holding a child, on the move. Opening the app, finding the chat and typing is too much then. Here are the shortest ways in.
Quick settings is the panel that slides down when you swipe from the top of the screen; its tiles are buttons like the torch or Bluetooth. Android won't add the “Remind me” tile by itself — add it once. Easiest: in the app, Settings → “Quick settings tile “Remind me”” → Add (Android 13 and newer asks once). Or by hand: pull the quick settings down twice, tap ✏️ and drag “Remind me” up.
From then on it is one tap: a small card appears over any screen and starts listening. Say “tomorrow at 9 call mum” — the card shows what it heard and the assistant's answer, and goes away by itself once the reminder is saved. If the assistant asks a follow-up question (“What time?”), the card stays open — tap “Speak again” and answer. A long press on the tile opens the app.
What you say goes into the same chat as in the app, on the website and in Telegram — it is in the history, and can be corrected there.
The New reminder form has a 🎤 in the text field. Say it all in one sentence — “on weekdays at 7:30 pack Stepan's school bag” — and the form sets the time, day and repeat itself, leaving “Pack Stepan's school bag” as the text. For typed text there is a Fill in from the text button.
Here the phone only takes dictation, and simple rules place the time and day — no assistant, so none of your monthly requests are used. The rules will not understand the harder things (“when I get home”, the weather) — then choose the fields yourself or say it in the chat.
A reminder at a set time has a menu (⋮ or a long press) → Second reminder. Before: 1, 5 or 10 minutes, an hour or a day ahead. After: once more 1, 5 or 10 minutes, an hour or a day later — unless you pressed Done; if you did, the second one does not come. By voice too: “meeting at 9, warn me 10 minutes before”.
A reminder came while the screen was off and is still in the notification shade — you neither opened nor swiped it? It sounds once more as soon as the screen comes on. Once. Swiped it away or cleared all notifications — no repeat. The phone does this itself; nothing goes to the server. Switch it off in the settings: “Repeat a missed one when the screen comes on”.
Still, do not trust something important to one notification: a reminder is not an alarm clock. To wake up, set an alarm in the phone's Clock app.
No sound reaches us: your phone's speech recognition service (Google on most Android phones) turns it into text. Only that text goes to our server and to the language model (Claude by Anthropic, USA) — just like text typed into the chat — to work out what to remind and when. The microphone is on only after you tap the tile or the 🎤, and goes off after a pause. Details are in the privacy policy.