Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze

Unforgetful：一款专为“贪睡族”打造的全新提醒应用

Marco Arment, the indie developer who created popular apps like Overcast and Instapaper, and who previously served as Tumblr’s chief technology officer, is out today with his latest creation — an alternative to Apple’s Reminders designed for procrastinators, called Unforgetful. 曾开发过 Overcast 和 Instapaper 等热门应用、并曾担任 Tumblr 首席技术官的独立开发者 Marco Arment，今日发布了他的最新作品——一款名为 Unforgetful 的提醒应用。它是苹果原生“提醒事项”（Reminders）的替代品，专为拖延症患者设计。

The new iOS and Mac app works with your current Reminders database, but it’s designed for people who find Apple’s system doesn’t work for them. As Arment explains in his announcement on Friday, “Siri, for all of its faults, has always been very good at creating tasks in Apple’s Reminders app… The Reminders app, though, doesn’t fit me at all. I don’t like how it looks, how it works, or how it’s organized. Hell, I don’t even like its icon. There’s nothing about it I like. So I never open it.” 这款适用于 iOS 和 Mac 的新应用可以与你现有的“提醒事项”数据库同步，但它专为那些觉得苹果原生系统不顺手的人群打造。正如 Arment 在周五的公告中所解释的那样：“Siri 虽然有不少缺点，但在苹果的‘提醒事项’应用中创建任务时一直表现得很好……然而，‘提醒事项’应用完全不适合我。我不喜欢它的外观、工作方式或组织逻辑。见鬼，我甚至连它的图标都不喜欢。它的一切我都看不顺眼，所以我从不打开它。”

The developer pointed to specific issues where he felt Reminders fell short, like how its snooze feature worked, or those times when he accidentally dismissed a reminder instead of snoozing it, losing the reminder altogether. Arment also noted that if he forgot to include a time when setting a reminder, he’d miss getting a notification, so the task never got done. 这位开发者指出了他认为“提醒事项”做得不足的具体问题，例如它的“稍后提醒”（snooze）功能，或者有时他不小心误点了“完成”而非“稍后提醒”，导致提醒直接消失。Arment 还提到，如果他在设置提醒时忘记添加时间，就会收不到通知，导致任务最终被遗忘。

Unforgetful is meant to address these issues and make it impossible to lose your tasks. For some, the solution could be overkill, but for those who are addicted to snoozing reminders or need more regular nudges, it could help keep them on track. For starters, notifications will always repeat — even if you miss them or dismiss them — until the task is actually done and deleted. This makes it harder to lose reminders, especially if you’re guilty of dismissing them before completing the task. Unforgetful 旨在解决这些问题，确保你不会遗漏任何任务。对于某些人来说，这个方案可能有些“用力过猛”，但对于那些习惯于不断推迟提醒或需要更频繁督促的人来说，它能帮助他们保持进度。首先，通知会不断重复——即使你错过了或关闭了它们——直到任务真正完成并被删除为止。这让你更难遗漏提醒，特别是如果你经常在未完成任务前就误关了通知。

Snoozing has also been revamped so that the intervals scale as you continue to snooze your tasks. However, it won’t overwhelm you with multiple tasks at the same time, which could lead you to freeze and do nothing at all. The app keeps things fairly simple, too, as there are no tags, different views or modes, or other organization tools to learn. (For more advanced features like this, Apple’s Reminders app would still be a better choice.) “稍后提醒”功能也经过了重新设计，提醒间隔会随着你不断推迟任务而自动调整。不过，它不会让你同时被多个任务淹没，从而避免让你感到不知所措而选择“摆烂”。该应用保持了相当的简洁性，没有标签、复杂的视图模式或其他需要学习的组织工具。（如果需要这些高级功能，苹果的“提醒事项”仍然是更好的选择。）

In short, Unforgetful becomes the tool that makes sure you stay on top of your reminders, no matter whether you prefer to enter them by hand or tell Siri, and no matter whether they have a deadline or not. Because the app works with your existing Apple Reminders, you can continue using reminders as you always have — you just turn off the Apple Reminders notifications and replace them with Unforgetful notifications instead. 简而言之，Unforgetful 是一款确保你不会错过任何提醒的工具，无论你是喜欢手动输入还是通过 Siri 添加，也无论任务是否有截止日期。由于该应用与你现有的苹果“提醒事项”联动，你可以像往常一样使用它——只需关闭苹果原生的通知，改用 Unforgetful 的通知即可。

While there are other well-designed, third-party reminders apps on the market, the best thing about Unforgetful’s setup is this Reminders integration. This means you don’t have to explicitly tell Siri to use Unforgetful when you’re adding reminders. And if you find you don’t like the app, you won’t need to export your reminders back to Apple’s database. (Because they’re already there!) 虽然市场上还有其他设计精良的第三方提醒应用，但 Unforgetful 最棒的地方在于它与苹果“提醒事项”的深度集成。这意味着你在添加提醒时，无需特意告诉 Siri 使用 Unforgetful。而且如果你发现自己不喜欢这款应用，也不需要将提醒导出回苹果数据库。（因为它们本来就在那里！）

Unforgetful also ships with its own in-app microphone for voice reminders and a full suite of widgets for the Lock Screen and Control Center. The app is $19.99 per year and works across both Mac and iOS. Unforgetful 还内置了用于语音提醒的麦克风，并提供了一套完整的锁屏和控制中心小组件。该应用定价为每年 19.99 美元，支持 Mac 和 iOS 设备。