Naming/Labeling Alarms

[armen]

Hello,

Wouldn't it be nice if you allow us to name the silent alarms? For example: an alarm to wake up, one to drink water, food, one to remind me of something such as an important meeting, etc...

Your feedback is highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Moderator Edit: Added Labels/Title for Clarity

[Dfalireas]

Me and I think many of us as well, need to be able to create custom Alarms/Reminders on the Android/iPhone app that would vibrate on the Fitbit watch. This reminders can be to take a food supplement, to take drugs (medical drugs 🙂 ), to drink water, or any other related fitness reminder. The reminder should allow you to write your custom message that will appear on the watch at the times that you request. The reminders should be able to be recurring, (choose every how many hours, choose days of the week, and choose silent times). For example, Every Monday to Friday, every 4 hours, with silent between 11.00pm and 6.pm. A very good, simple and "compact" reminder application that you can see how it works, is Col Reminder app for Android.  I would love this feature, that while extremely useful it does not interfere with the core watch functions.

[littlehobbit13]

I, too, would love to see a reminders feature added in. If I have bluetooth on and I'm near enough to my phone calendar reminders will get pushed to my Charge2, but I'd love to see this get added as a separate feature on the Fitbit itself.

If I'm not near my phone (which often I can't be for work), I won't get the notification of calendar events. Even if I do, I still have to acknowledge the event later on my phone calendar despite having seen it come through the Fitbit. Even despite the interactive elements, you don't necessarily want a bunch of different reminders for simple things cluttering up your calendar. Imagine if you had to put "Reminder to Move" every hour on your calendar to get the notification? I think it would be really handy to have a built in reminders feature on my Fitbit.

I don't think it should be complicated. Currently I can set an alarm to perform virtually the same function, but I think a Reminders feature should be more understated. I don't want something that buzzes continuously at me, or that will snooze if I don't deliberately click the button to dismiss it. I would like something that goes off just like a "reminder to move" notification: a quick, short buzz to request my attention and automatic dismissal once the message has been displayed. You could even limit the reminder count so people don't put too much strain on the Fitbit's memory resources, maybe limit the number of reminders to 5 tasks or something (developers would be better able to know if a higher number is possible, of course). It would give those of us who are forgetful a helping hand. "Take Meds" or "Take Vitamins" or "Pick up kids" or other things that have consistent timing during waking hours.

Please consider a Task Reminders feature!

[Dfalireas]

eg, one reminder can be to weigh yourself every wednesday morning. Or even to watch a game that you don't want to miss on TV, or to purchase something for your fitness. The possibilities are endless. The custom reminder enriches both the fitness part and the watch part of the Fitbit.

[Aandpmama]

Yes! I was really surprised to realize the Blaze doesn't already have this feature. The silent alarms would be SO much more useful if a little text could be personalized for each one. 

[Aandpmama]

Please add this feature. 

[Chrian]

I concur. Having an alarm with reminder would be a terrific feature and replace yet another app taking up space on my phone. I like that FitBit has some great partnerships, but having one app to serve all my purposes would be the most effective and efficient solution for me.

[greybeh]

Yes!!! 

I really need an alarm to remind me to log my breakfast, lunch, dinner. 

It'd be great to be able to attach labels to alarms so that I can customize them. I'm so desperate for this! 

[Jappeloup]

Yes that would be AMAZING. I was thinking just simple sentences like drink water, walk, time to exercise ...

[Mahesh_Shah]

i think this is simple however very useful feature. I work as a firmware designer and developer and i don't think this should take more than a week time to implement and test 🙂

- Reminder with custom text message (can be limited to 100 char ??')

- Set for specific time

- Set for daily

- weekly or specific day of a week or bi-weekly

- monthly, yearly

[BessieMay]

I use my Fitbit Blaze alarms to remind me to take various medications, it would be great to be able to select a name option from a list.  It would be wonderful to be able to customise them even further so that I could put the name of the meds on the alarm.

[shinzon]

Voted for this as well. This would be really nice so you could have custom reminders to drink water, eat a snack, count kicks for a pregnant woman, or any number of options!

[Denno136]

Needed to remind me to take my meds 

[Denno136]

Reminders to get or do something like take a medication or start treatment.

[Thellior]

I also like this feature. +1

[fc3shightower]

I would absolutely love to see this on the Alta HR

[-Zo-]

Would be great to get drink water notifications on my Surge, and also being able to name my alarms would be super handy 🙂 is waterproofing in the works at all?

[AlexR18]

Pretty simple, just give alarms names that you can see on certain watches such as charge 2

[LLB123]

I was just about to suggest this. Glad you guys are already all over it. Somebody said that this is already available in the app. But I'm not seeing it. I'm guessing it's for something other than the Charge 2 (?).

[catterflyworx]

This is a great idea, I would love to see it implemented on the Alta HR as well. 

[GuitarCraig]

This should be a priority, with 10 alarms and busy schedules, one less thing to think about.....thanks

[Philwoodphoto]

I really want this feature please! Pretty please!

I use the alarms to remind me to take my medication and naming them would be a brilliant feature.

[GuitarCraig]

This should have been already done :white_heavy_check_mark:. Who can remember 10 random nudges???

Call/Text

[martyairman]

I agree.  It would be a great feature to be able to add text or notes to each alarm. 

[Annapannakotte]

This is an upgrade necessary for fitbit blaze to become no 1 in helping people make positive lifestyle changes. The difference of having the reminders on the fitbit instead of the phone is that I immediately see the reminders when they show on my wrist. I use the alarms to remind me of daily routines that I want to implement. I usually miss that time passes so fast so the silent alarms helps a lot. But my over worked brain doesn't always remember what I intended with the alarm. 

[GuitarCraig]

In meantime, since Fitbit is slow to put this "all important" basic function into effect.

Simply:

IPHONE: set a reminder on Mac, Ipad or iphone, have your FITBIT enabled for Reminders.

Don't know how on Android but probably the same.