Hourly Activity Reminder 30 mins before?

[RizRiz]

Hi guys! Do you think it is possible to have the hourly actitvity reminder 30mins before the hour ends? 10mins is too short especially for people like me who do desk work and there are times that get stuck in a middle of work and will completely forget the 10mins warning 🙂

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[AlexandraFitbit]

Nice suggestion, thanks for sharing @RizRiz!. We look forward to hearing what other community members think. 

[Dvheuvel]

10 mins, 30 mins, it's all kind of arbitrary. Why not make it right at the hour so you have 60mins to complete the steps?

The issue I think you are highlighting is that you get a single alert, which if missed you don't get another alert for another hour.  Sometimes at a desk job, that's easy to do.

what would be more effective is if you haven't moved "enough" in a certain time period (say 50 mins), you get an alert. if, in some other time period (10 mins?) you haven't moved enough you get another alert, etc.  The alerts stop when it's been determined that you have moved and are continuing to move enough.  That would be more useful than stopping the alerts on the hour because "well, you missed the goal for that hour".

The gamification (i.e. meeting goals and seeing the little dots completed) is kind of arbitrary.  What is really life changing is getting people to move, and continuing to remind people to move regardless of meeting some arbitrary time limit and/or step count.

make sense?

[Dvheuvel]

to be clear, I don't think that it's the 10 mins to the hour that needs to change but rather a persistant notification needs to occur when you haven't reached the required goal.  Because the way it is now, I can continue to be sedentary until the next alarm.

[RizRiz]

well it is easy to say get the people moving but for those who work at a desk it is really difficult because i try to move as much as i can but i cannot leave my station as often as i want to 🙂 i sometimes end up jogging in place lol just to keep myself moving.  

alarm on interval would work too so i agree that more than 1 alert should be developed. say, one alarm 30mins before then another 10mins before the hour ends.

thanks for sharing 😉

[Ksavo]

Being able to choose amount/intervals for alarms would be great. If you could choose to have an alert every 10/15/30 mins until you hit your goal would be nice

[Tabby0418]

A choice on what the interval is should be in place, just like a choice on how many steps per hour we hit would be nice as well.  Maybe 250 isn't what I strive to do; maybe I want to hit 500.  So more options in this area would be awesome!

[ActuallyAmbah]

this post is nearly 3 years old. No change in the future... I miss several hours in the day because of this, I'm going to find a way around it but it would be very nice if they would implement this feature...