Set an alarm or reminder
Type a reminder in plain words, like "every weekday at 7:30 AM stand-up", and Yardmaster rings at that time with Snooze and Dismiss.
An alarm reminds you at the time you choose, once or on a repeat, with a sound and a window you can't miss. It only rings at you: it never starts an agent.
Turn alarms on#
Alarms are off on a new install. Open Settings > Notifications, choose the Alarms tab and turn on Enable Alarms. An Alarms row then appears in the sidebar.
Set an alarm#
Click Alarms in the sidebar.
In the box at the top, type the alarm in plain words, for example
every weekday at 7:30 AM stand-uportomorrow at 9am dentist.Press EnterEnterEnterEnter. The alarm appears in the list, under Today, This week or Recurring.
Click it to change the Label, Schedule, Sound or Snooze duration, then click Save alarm.
From anywhere in the app, press Shift plus Command plus A⇧⌘ACtrl plus Shift plus ACtrlShiftA (or click New alarm in the toolbar, if it is pinned) to open Quick alarm. Type the alarm under Quick add (natural language), check the fields below it, and click Create alarm.
When it rings#
A window shows the alarm with Dismiss and Snooze (for the snooze length you chose). A repeating alarm sets itself up for its next time when you dismiss it; a one-time alarm leaves the list once it has rung. Each ring also leaves a row in your Inbox, so you can see it happened.
To try an alarm without waiting, open it and click Test fire. It rings now and leaves the schedule alone.
Group alarms into folders#
Click New folder under Folders, type a name and press EnterEnterEnterEnter. Drag an alarm onto a folder to file it there, or pick the Folder in the alarm's details. Deleting a folder keeps its alarms.
Does it cost anything?#
Ringing is free. Reading what you typed is free for one-time alarms like tomorrow at 9am. A repeating alarm (anything with "every", "daily" or a weekday) and anything the free reader can't understand is read by a small Claude model, billed to your Anthropic API key, up to NLP Daily Cost Cap a day (10 cents at first). Without an API key, set the time in the alarm's fields instead.
Advanced overrides. In an alarm's details, Advanced overrides sets its own Volume override, Sound play mode (Play once or Loop until dismissed), Sound duration, Fade-in / crescendo, Speak label aloud, Snooze cap and Math gate to dismiss (solve a sum before Dismiss works). Each can stay on Use default.
Defaults for all alarms are in Settings > Notifications > Alarms, including Default Snooze and Pierce Focus Mode, which lets alarms ring even while Focus Mode is holding alerts (on at first).
Pomodoro lives in the same panel, on the Pomodoro tab: see Pomodoro.
Related
- Run a cron job on a scheduleA cron job runs a command, a recipe or an agent session at the times you choose, such as every weekday at 9am, as long as Yardmaster is open.
- See your Google Calendar in YardmasterConnect Google Calendar to see your day, add and change events, get meeting reminders and ask an AI about your schedule.
- Let auto-replies answer your agentsAuto-replies answer or tidy up a session when its agent says something you expect, so work keeps moving while you are away.