Talk into your phone. KeptMind listens, sorts your thoughts into clear next steps, and nudges you only when it matters.
KeptMind escalates push → SMS → phone call only when you flag must-do work. Most reminders never escalate beyond push. The point is not to spam — it is the opposite. Because escalation exists, push stays meaningful for the items where you allowed it.
Notification blindness is neurological, not moral failure. The average smartphone user receives 60 to 120 notifications a day. The brain has trained itself to treat most as background noise. For ADHD users, this effect is amplified — by Wednesday afternoon a person may have dismissed dozens of pushes that morning, and the relevant one has become indistinguishable from the noise.
Louder channels on rare critical tasks beat a hundred ignored gentle pings. SMS reaches the lock screen with a different visual treatment, often a different sound, and crosses the filter built up against app pushes. Calls cross every filter.
You choose per task — escalation never applies globally. Grocery reminders stay quiet. Tax deadlines can break through. The system trusts the user to decide which moments deserve loudness.
Step 1: push. Most reminders end here. Sent at the scheduled time, dismissable in one swipe. If you dismiss, that is the entire interaction.
Step 2: SMS. Triggers if push was not interacted with after a configured silence interval (default 25 minutes, adjustable). Goes to the phone number you registered. Not every push escalates — only items you flagged for SMS escalation.
Step 3: call. The smallest, rarest tier. Triggers only on critical-flagged tasks where SMS was also ignored. Plays a calm pre-recorded message naming the task; press 1 to dismiss. No live agent.
Free tier uses push nudges only. Plus unlocks SMS escalation for items you flag. AI+ adds the call escalation tier — the smallest, most invasive, most reserved layer.
Configure which steps fire and when in Settings → Nudges. The defaults are conservative — most users do not change them after initial setup. The point of the configurability is the rare case, not the daily one.
Pair with nag mode for gentle repeats on non-critical routines. Different problems, different signals, separate mental load — the two systems do not share notification budget.
For grocery lists, idea capture, or hopeful tasks. Escalation is for must-do, time-sensitive items. If everything is critical, nothing is — and the brain re-trains itself to ignore the louder channels too.
For tasks where missing has no real cost. Escalation is a privilege you grant to the small set of obligations that matter. Granting it broadly destroys the signal value.
For tasks during travel days or events where calls would be disruptive. Use scheduled quiet windows; the system respects them by default.
For users early in their KeptMind setup. Escalation works best after you have tuned which tasks deserve criticality flags. In the first month, lean on push only — escalation in week one tends to over-fire because the user has not yet built their personal taxonomy of what matters.
For collaborative or assigned tasks where the deadline is owned by someone else. Escalation is a self-management tool, not a team tool. If the deadline depends on another person's response, escalation against your own clock is misdirected pressure.