Your tasks can now email you: reminders, overdue alerts, and a morning digest
Give a task in your notes a due date and note2it will remind you before it's due, tell you once if it slips, and — if you opt in — send one summary at 9:00 every morning. Here is how it works, and why it's built the way it is.
Most tasks don't fail because they were hard. They fail because the note they were written in scrolled out of view, and nothing brought them back at the right moment. My Tasks solved the first half of that in July by gathering every checkbox from every page into one list. Today it gets the second half: the list can come to you.
Any task with a due date can now email you three ways — a reminder before it's due, a single alert when it goes overdue, and an optional digest each morning listing what's late, what's due today, and what's coming up. Each one is a choice you make, not a default you have to undo.
A reminder on your terms, not ours
Open a task's details panel, pick a due date, and choose when you want to hear about it: on the due date itself, or an hour, a day, two days, or a week before. That rule is stored with the task, so a deadline for a contract renewal can warn you a week out while a "send the slides" task only needs an hour. Move the due date and the reminder moves with it, re-armed and ready to fire again.
The email is short on purpose. It names the task, says when it's due in your own time zone, and links you back into note2it. Nothing to triage, nothing to archive.
One overdue alert, then silence
When a task slips past its due date, note2it tells you once. Not every hour, not every morning — once. A reminder system that nags trains you to ignore it, and an ignored reminder is worse than none. After that single alert, the task stays red at the top of My Tasks, where you'll see it the next time you're actually planning your day, and in the morning digest if you've turned it on.
The morning digest: your day in one email
The digest is opt-in, and it's the one email many people will want. Turn it on in Settings under Notifications and each morning at 9:00 — your 9:00, in the time zone your browser reported when you switched it on — you get one message with three short sections: Overdue, Due today, and Coming up. If none of them has anything in it, the email says so and gets out of your way.
It's one message a day, never more. If you were offline and the 9:00 window passed, that day's digest is skipped rather than arriving at 3 p.m. pretending it's morning.
Every switch is in your hands
There are two levels of control. In Settings, Notifications has two toggles: Deadline emails, which covers reminders and overdue alerts, and Daily digest. Below that, every task has its own Email me switches in its details panel — reminder before it's due, alert when it's overdue — so you can keep account-wide email on while muting the one task you already have under control.
Every email also carries a one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom. Clicking it turns off that stream — deadline emails or the digest — without signing in and without touching anything else. The emails come in the language you choose under Email language, independent of the language the app itself is set to.
Why email, and why these three
Email is the one channel that already works on every device you own, needs no app installed, and lands in a place you check on your own schedule. It's also the channel that respects you most: it waits. A push notification interrupts whatever you're doing; an email is there when you look.
And three is deliberate. A reminder before, an alert after, a summary each morning — that covers the moment you can still act early, the moment something has slipped, and the moment you plan the day. Everything else, from repeating nags to snooze buttons, adds noise faster than it adds value. If that changes, we'd rather add it carefully than ship it now.
What we store, and what we don't
Turning on the digest stores two things: that it's on, and your time zone, so 9:00 means 9:00 where you are rather than where our servers are. Turn it off and the stored time zone is deleted with it. Reminder preferences live on the task, next to its due date.
The task's title appears in the email sent to you, because that's the point of the email. It appears nowhere else: not in our logs, and not in the audit trail, which records only that a notification run happened and how many messages it sent. The emails are sent by note2it directly, not through a third-party marketing service.
Try it this week
Open any task in My Tasks, give it a due date and a reminder rule, and leave Email me on. Then go to Settings, Notifications and turn on the Daily digest. Tomorrow at 9:00 you'll know exactly what the day holds before you've opened a single page. Task notifications are included on every plan, starting with the free Standard plan.