Marking as “completed” might be performed by editing of the reminder status or simply by swiping of the reminder to the right. Reminders marked as done are saved in history.

App maintains five types of reminders:

1) One-time events – a reminder about something what need to be done on a defined date and time.

2) Daily, one or couple of times per day – requiring events with repetition pattern based on days.

3) Weekly events – requiring events with repetition pattern based on weeks.

4) Monthly events – requiring events with repetition pattern based on moths.

5) Yearly events – requiring events with repetition pattern based on years.

In RemindIt app has been implemented total saving/restoration of state – it means that app might be interrupted at any time (by phone call, pressing one of device buttons, screen lock) and your data will not be lost. When app is activated next time you will have option to get your latest data back.

Starting from version 2.0 app supports iCloud data synchronization - data on all iOS devices with same iCloud account will be synchronized. You can decide what kind of data should be synchronized (saved in iCloud); rest of data is saved locally.

App behavior can be customize by modification of settings – just tap ”settings button” and adjust app parameters.

App help available in the app or on WWW contains detailed description of all app functions, services and options.

All app activities and events are recorded in the system log. Statistics about the app usage are accumulated.

App is optimized for iOS 9, iOS 8, iOS 7, and iOS 6 and supports all existing iOS devices.

Pictures in current document are taken from iOS9.x, iOS8.x and iOS7.x version of RemindIt. On devices, which are running older versions of iOS (6.x) some controls will look slightly different. Following table contains couple of examples of such differences.

iOS6.x

iOS9.x, iOS8.x, iOS7.x

Button

Picker

Stepper

Text

field

Switch

Alert

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2. Local notifications

When reminder become “due” the local notification is sent to the user:

A ring tone is played. Information about reminder is shown on top of screen.

The local notification information is shown. Notification will be also shown on your Apple Watch if it is paired with your iPhone.

The number of ”in time” or “overdue” reminders appear as an app icon badge – a small number in the upper right corner of the app icon.

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3. View orientation

All app view works in portrait and landscape orientation:

Portrait orientation

Landscape orientation

Just select orientation, which is most convenient for you. View orientation might be change at any time.

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4. App views on different iOS devices

App supports all current iOS devices:

· iPhone 4, 4s

· iPhone 5, 5s

· iPhone 6, 6s

· iPhone 6 Plus, 6s Plus

· iPad 2, Retina, Air, Air 2

· iPad Pro

App views are designed to optimally use different iOS devices capabilities. In following sections you can see couple of screen shots of one of app view on different iOS devices with different versions of iOS.

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4.1 iPhone 4, 4s

iOS6:

iOS7, iOS8, iOS9:

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4.2 iPhone 5, 5s

iOS6:

iOS7, iOS8, iOS9:

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4.3 iPhone 6, 6s

iOS7, iOS8, iOS9:

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4.4 iPhone 6 Plus, 6s Plus

iOS7, iOS8, iOS9:

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4.5 iPad 2, Retina, Air, Air 2

iOS6:

iOS7, iOS8, iOS9:

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4.6 iPad Pro

iOS9:

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5. Common information fields, controls and alerts

In this section are described all common information fields, controls and alerts used in almost all app views.

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5.1 Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders)

Terminate view without saving changes. When changes were made user will be prompted for decision what to do, by showing following alert:

User will have three possibilities:

1) Save changes, and exit, by choosing “Yes”.

2) Discard changes and exit, by selecting “No”.

3) Continue editing, by selecting “Cancel”.

Swipe to the right.

Same as tapping “Done” button.

Terminate view and save changes.

For every reminder you can select time when local notification will be sent to you. You may select time from 0 minutes to 4 weeks. Just tap on field – and picker with all possible choices will popup:

Description

Description of reminded event.

To enter description, just tap on the field, keyboard will pop-up, and you will have possibility to tape your text.

Time

Time of reminded event.

To enter time, just tap on the field, time-picker will pop-up, and you will have possibility to select time.

Time stepper:

To make adjustments and corrections of time you may use stepper:

Tapping on (-) decreases time by one minute.

Tapping on (+) increases time by one minute.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

Date, Start date

Date for reminder or start date for series of reminders – date when series of reminders starts.

To enter date, just tap on the field, date-picker will pop-up, and you will have possibility to select date.

Date, Start date stepper

To make adjustments and corrections of start date you may use stepper:

Tapping on (-) decreases date one day.

Tapping on (+) increases date one day.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

End date

End date for series of reminders – date when series of reminders ends.

To enter date, just tap on the field, date-picker will pop-up, and you will have possibility to select date

End date stepper:

To make adjustments and corrections of date you may use stepper:

Tapping on (-) decreases date one day.

Tapping on (+) increases date one day.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

End date ”clear” button

Taping on this button causes removing of end date.

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5.2 Common alerts (Reminders and Series of Reminders)

Alert is shown when you are trying to enter ‘End date’ which is earlier than current date and time.

Alert is shown when you are trying to enter ‘Reminder date’ which is earlier than current date and time.

Terminate view without saving changes. When changes were made user will be prompted for decision what to do, by following this alert.

Alert is shown when you are trying to save reminder or series of reminders without description.

Alert is shown when during editing of reminder start date is changed – moved forward, for example when you are moving start time before current time.

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6. Main view

It is view you will see when you start the app. View contains list of reminders and controls which allow you access to all app functions and options. Reminders are sorted by date and time – oldest first.

Dependent on how app was terminated when last time it was used, you will see one of the following:

First time start or after termination in Main view when selected reminder fit on the ”first page” of reminders in Main view.

Reminders, which were overdue for more than 20 minutes ago, are shown in red color.

Reminders, which are overdue for less than 20 minutes are shown in yellow color.

Remainders, which will be overdue in 20 minutes or less, are shown in green color.

All other reminders have blue color.

Start after termination when app was not in Main view or when latest selected reminder was long time in the future (did not fit on the ”first page” of reminders in Main view).

When you select ”Restore app state” you will be redirected to exactly same view as it was when you were using app last time, all not saved data will be re-entered for you.

When you choose ”Go to reminders” you will be directed to the beginning of reminders list and previously saved app state will be lost.

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

Search bar – used for searching ”filtering” of reminders. When activated Main view will show only reminders containing text entered in search bar.

Main view will change to:

Here:

Keyboard

Search button – hides keyboard. Main view will show only items, which satisfies search condition, search text stays in search bar:

Activated search bar, here:

“H”

Searched text.

Button which clears search text.

Cancel button – terminates searching, search text is cleared, keyboard is hided.

Starts Series of reminders view – view used for creation of new reminders.

Opens Details view for reminder.

Activates History view – list of completed reminders.

“Go to next overdue reminder” buttons – the next “overdue” reminder is selected. By tapping this button couple of times you will see all “overdue” reminders.

When there is no “overdue” reminders the button is disabled

Buttons do switching view between showing all reminders and showing overview of reminders.

Tapping on “Show overview” will switch to ”Show overview” mode, button text will change to “Show all”.

Tapping on “Show all” will switch to ”Show all” mode, button text will change to “Show overview”.

In ”Show all” mode all reminders from series are shown:

In ”Overview mode” only one reminder per series (”oldest”) is shown:

Activates Settings view – view used to change app parameters and options.

Double tap on reminder

Same as following actions:

1) Mark reminder.

2) Tap “Details” button.

Swipe reminder to the right

Same as following actions:

1) Mark reminder.

2) Tap details button.

3) Change status of reminder to “Completed”.

4) Save changes by tapping “Save” button.

Swipe reminder to the left

Same as following actions:

1) Mark reminder.

2) Tap details button.

3) Tap “Edit reminder” or “Single reminder” dependent on reminder is one time reminder or part of series.

4) Tap “Delete” button.

When you try to delete by swiping to the left, the confirmation alert view is shown:

1) To delete reminder answer “Yes”.

2) To keep reminder answer “No”.

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7. Reminders and Series of Reminders

Reminder is message that reminds you to do something (Reminder - according to Cambridge Dictionaries Online). Reminders can be “single” or “multiple”. Single reminder reminds you about something what is going to happen one time – for example about visiting the dentist on 10-th November. Multiple or requiring reminders remind you about something what is going to happen regularly, like every year, every month, every 4.th hour.

In RemindIt app multiple reminders are described with help of Series of reminders.

Reminders created with help of Series of reminders have exactly same properties as “single reminders” - might be edited, excluded from series or deleted without affecting of others reminders in series.

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8. Reminder details view

Remainder details view shows details about reminder and allows:

1) Adjust time when local notification about reminder will be sent, here you can select time from 0 minutes to 4 weeks.

2) Access single reminder of series.

3) Initialize editing of one time reminder.

4) Change status of reminder to “Completed”.

5) Add comment to completed reminders.

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

Use this control to change status of reminder.

When status of reminder is changed to “Completed” it will be possible to add comment to reminder.

Use this control to initialize editing of reminders, which are part of series.

The Series of reminders view with reminder data will be opened.

You will have possibility to:

1) Delete reminder.

2) Exclude reminder from series.

3) Select time when local notification will be sent.

Use this control to start editing of one time reminders

The Series of reminders view with reminder data will be opened.

Here you can change all reminder data, such as:

1) Description.

2) Time when local notification will be sent.

3) Time of reminder.

4) Date of reminder.

Use this control to start editing of series of reminders.

For details please follow link: Series of reminders view

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9. Series of reminders view

View contains five sub-views used for different types of reminders:

1) Once: one-time events –reminder about something what need to be done on a defined date and time.

2) Days: daily events, one or couple of times per day – requiring events with repetition pattern based on days.

3) Weeks: weekly events – requiring events with repetition pattern based on weeks.

4) Months: monthly events – requiring events with repetition pattern based on moths.

5) Years: yearly events – requiring events with repetition pattern based on years.

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9.1 Once

This sub-view is used for creation of one-time events –reminder about something what need to be done on a defined date and time.

To create reminder of this type you need to supply following information:

1) Time when local notification will be sent.

2) Description.

3) Reminder time.

4) Reminder date – the day when reminded event is going to happen.

Controls in this view are described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders)

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9.2 Days

This sub-view is used for creation of reminders about events which are going to happen daily, every day, every second day, every third day,…, one or couple of times per day – requiring events with repetition pattern based on days.

To create reminder of this type you need to supply following information:

1) Time when local notification will be sent.

2) Description.

3) Reminder time.

4) Repetition pattern based on days, like every day, every second day…

5) Repetition pattern based on hours:

a. How many times per day.

b. How many hours between events.

6) Start date.

7) End date.

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

Every <n> day:

To select repetition pattern based on days just tap on the field, picker will pop-up and you will have possibility to choose right number.

Every <n> day stepper:

To make adjustments and corrections of repetition pattern you may use stepper:

Tapping on (-) decreases number by one day.

Tapping on (+) increases number by one day.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

Times per day:

To select how many times per day, the reminder event should be populated just tap on field and by using of picker select required frequency.

Times per day stepper:

To make adjustments and corrections of ”Times per day” you may use stepper:

Tapping on (-) decreases number by one.

Tapping on (+) increases number by one.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

Every <n> hours:

To select time between daily repetitions of reminders, just tap on field and by using of picker select required value.

Every <n> hours stepper:

To make adjustments and corrections of time between daily repetitions of reminders you may use stepper:

Tapping on (-) selects previous value.

Tapping on (+) selects next value.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

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9.3 Weeks

This sub-view is used for creation of reminders about events which are going to happen weekly, every week, every second week, every third week,…, on certain days of week – requiring events with repetition pattern based on weeks.

To create reminder of this type you need to supply following information:

1) Time when local notification will be sent.

2) Description.

3) Reminder time.

4) Repetition pattern based on weeks, like every week, every second week…

5) Week days when event is going to happen.

6) Start date.

7) End date.

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

Every <n> week:

To select repetition pattern based on weeks just tap on the field, picker will pop-up and you will have possibility to choose right number.

Every <n> week stepper:

To make adjustments and corrections of repetition pattern you may use stepper:

Tapping on (-) decreases number by one.

Tapping on (+) increases number by one.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

Week days:

To select week days for event just tap on squares corresponding to required week days. When selected day is marked with ”X”. To deselect tap square again.

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9.4 Months

This sub-view is used for creation of reminders about events which are going to happen monthly, every second, third… month – requiring events with repetition pattern based on days.

To create reminder of this type you need to supply following information:

1) Time when local notification will be sent.

2) Description.

3) Reminder time.

4) Repetition pattern based on months, like every month, every second month…

5) Type of repetition (on defined day, every 1^st, every 2^nd, every 3^rd, every 4^th, last, every).

6) Type of day when repetition should happen (day number for ”day”, week day or group of week days for every 1^st, every 2^nd, every 3^rd, every 4^th, last, every).

By combination of (5) and (6) you can create repetitions, such as:

· 13^th day every month.

· Every 2^nd Friday of the month.

· Every Monday.

7) Start date.

8) End date.

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

Every <n> month:

To select repetition pattern based on months just tap on the field, picker will pop-up and you will have possibility to choose right number.

Every <n> month stepper:

To make adjustments and corrections of repetition pattern you may use stepper:

Tapping on (-) decreases number by one.

Tapping on (+) increases number by one.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

Type of repetition:

To select type of repetition just tap on the field, picker will pop-up and you will have possibility to choose right type of repitition.

When ”day” was selected in first step you will select day number by taping on next field, picker with possible values will pop-up.

When ”every 1^st”, ”every 2^nd”, ”every 3^rd”, every ”4^th”, ”last”, ”every” was selected in first step you have to select type of day by taping on next field. Picker with possible values will pop-up.

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9.5 Years

This sub-view is used for creation of reminders about events which are going to every year – requiring events with repetition pattern based on days.

To create reminder of this type you need to supply following information:

1) Time when local notification will be sent.

2) Description.

3) Reminder time.

4) Months of year.

5) Type of repetition (day, every 1^st, every 2^nd, every 3^rd, every 4^th, last, every).

6) Type of day when repetition should happen (day number for ”day”, type of week day for every 1^st, every 2^nd, every 3^rd, every 4^th, last, every).

By combination of (5) and (6) you can create repetitions, such as:

· 13^th day in August.

· Every 2^nd Friday in August.

· Every Monday in August.

7) Start date.

8) End date.

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

Month:

To select month just tap on the field, picker will pop-up and you will have possibility to choose right value.

Month stepper:

To make adjustments and corrections of selected month:

Tapping on (-) selects previous month.

Tapping on (+) selects next month.

Keeping stepper pressed cause continuous value changes.

Type of repetition:

To select type of repetition just tap on the field, picker will pop-up and you will have possibility to choose right value.

When ”day” was selected in first step you will select day number by taping on next field, picker with possible values will pop-up.

When ”1^st”, ”2^nd”, ”3^rd”, ”4^th”, ”last”, ”every” was selected in first step you have to select type of day by taping on next field. Picker with possible values will pop-up.

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10. History view

View contains list of completed reminders sorted by date – latest first.

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

Terminate view, go back to Main view.

Double tap on reminder

Same as following actions:

a. Mark reminder.

b. Tap ”Details” button.

Swipe reminder to the right

Same as actions:

a. Mark reminder.

b. Tap details button.

c. Tap “Restore” button.

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11. History details view

History details view contains detailed information about completed reminder:

More exactly here you will see:

1) Date/Time of reminder.

2) Time when local notification will be sent.

3) Description.

4) Date and time when reminder has changed status to ”Completed”.

5) Comment.

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

This button moves reminder from history back to ordinary reminders. Comment and date/time for completion of reminder will be lost.

Tapping of this button (when it is enabled) will redirect you to Series of reminders view, view data will be taken from historical reminder. This can be used for reviewing of series for reminders or for re-activation of already completed series of reminders. Button is enabled only for historical reminders related to series of reminders.

Editing of

comment

To change comment just tap on comment field and do all necessary changes. Later on you have to save changes by tapping on “Save” button.

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12. Settings view

This view allows you to configure some system parameters and settings. From this view you have also access to Log view, Sync settings View, Statistics view and Help view

Controls in this view – common controls described in Common information fields, controls (Reminders and Series of Reminders) and additionally:

Terminate view and save changes. Go to Log view.

Terminate view and save changes. Go to Sync settings View.

Terminate view and save changes. Go to Statistics view.

Terminate view and save changes. Go to Help view.

Determines time format in all views.

Determines date format in all views.

Determines how many requiring reminders from series will be shown in Main view. For example when this parameter is 31, Main view will contain 31 reminders of type “every day”.

Parameter affects only requiring reminders. Every series of reminders will have at least one “representative” in Main view.

When “End date” does not expire and some reminders from series are moved to history or deleted, the new “next in series” reminders will be populated.

Determines system sounds, there are two types of sounds, which can be configured:

· Click – confirmation sound for opening the view, changing orientation, etc.

· Alert – ring tone for local notification

You may select all combinations of system sounds by selecting them with picker.

Determines maximum number of entries in reminders history. When number of historical reminders excides this number the oldest reminders will be deleted.