Talk into your phone. KeptMind listens, sorts your thoughts into clear next steps, and nudges you only when it matters.
Nag mode sends calm repeats on a schedule you choose — separate from critical work escalation — so ADHD brains get cues without feeling punished for missing one ping. Default volume is gentle, intervals are configurable, and stopping is one tap.
Escalating nudges intensify push → SMS → call for must-do deadlines. Nag mode stays at a steady gentle tone for routines you want repeated, not amplified.
Split channels reduce notification fatigue. Work panic and self-care pings no longer fight for the same mental bucket. The brain that learns "every KeptMind ping is critical" stops listening; the brain that learns "nag is gentle, escalation is rare" keeps both signals meaningful.
You can run both on the same task in special cases — gentle nag throughout the day, escalation if it is still open by evening. The configuration is per task, not global.
Medication windows are the canonical case. ADHD medication is often time-sensitive, missing a dose creates downstream cascades, and a calm reminder every 30 minutes during the window beats one notification you will forget.
Hydration, standing breaks during hyperfocus, leaving for appointment prep, post-lunch refocus prompts. Anything that benefits from gentle repetition rather than escalation.
Pair with energy match: nag items hide on overwhelm days if you need silence, and return tomorrow without manual reset. The system respects bad days without losing the routine. Many ADHD users report that this is the difference between a nag setup that survives a flu week and one that gets uninstalled because it shouted through illness.
Default interval is 30 minutes within the active window. Configurable per task between 5 minutes and 4 hours. Stop conditions: explicit dismiss, completion of the linked task, or hitting end-of-window. Intervals adapt to context — shorter during work hours, longer at night, longer on bad-energy days.
Time windows respect quiet hours and calendar busy state by default. Override only for items you have explicitly flagged as urgent enough to break through — same logic as escalation. The override is per task, never global, so a single critical morning medication can break quiet hours without retraining the rest of your nag setup to ignore them.
Active hours can also follow calendar context. If a task is "before tennis practice", and tennis is on Tue/Thu evenings on your calendar, the nag fires only on those days. This is the bridge between captured intent ("remind me before practice") and the structured calendar — without making you set up a recurring rule manually.
For one-off tasks. A single push at the right moment beats six gentle repeats. Use nag for genuinely repetitive cues, not as a fallback for distrust of the first ping. If you find yourself adding nag to single tasks routinely, the underlying issue is push reliability or visibility, not need for repetition.
For tasks where missing has a hard consequence. A medical appointment, a flight, a tax deadline — these belong in escalating nudges with critical flag, not in nag mode. Escalation chooses the right channel for the moment; nag stays quiet on purpose.
For days when you want silence. Use the global pause toggle or set energy to "bad" — the system shrinks accordingly. There is no virtue in pushing through a bad day to "not break the streak"; nag mode does not have streaks.