Reminders that reach you, and a badge that tells you what's next

In-page reminder cards with a chime and an Open event button, plus a toolbar badge that shows your next meeting's start time — or NOW.

Gaurav Suthar4 min readCalendarioRemindersNotifications
Part 10 of 12The Calendario GuideShow all parts
  1. 1Getting started with Calendario
  2. 2Connect Google, Outlook and Zoom — and more than one of each
  3. 3Read your day on the timeline
  4. 4Tune the timeline: zoom, working hours, buffers and more
  5. 5Drag to create, move, resize and copy events
  6. 6Event details, RSVPs and quick actions
  7. 7Create events without leaving the page
  8. 8Find anything with ⌘K search
  9. 9Jump to any date and see holidays
  10. 10Reminders that reach you, and a badge that tells you what's next
  11. 11Popup, side panel or floating launcher
  12. 12Make it yours: themes, colors, languages and time format

A calendar is only useful if it gets your attention at the right moment. Calendario does that two ways: a reminder that appears on whatever page you're reading, and a badge on its toolbar icon that's always visible.

Reminder cards on the page you're on#

When an event's reminder is due, for example 10 minutes before a meeting, a card slides into the top-right corner of the page you're on, with a soft chime.

The reminder appears over whatever you're working on. No need to have the calendar open.

The card shows:

  • The event's title.
  • When it starts, for example In 10 minutes · 10:30 AM.
  • Open event, which opens Calendario on that day with the event expanded.
  • × to dismiss it.
Close-up of a reminder card: Calendario, 1:1 with Priya, In 10 minutes · 10:30 AM, Open event
Close-up of a reminder card.

A few details that make it behave well:

  • It's in every tab. The card appears in all open tabs at once, including pages you open while the reminder is still relevant.
  • Dismiss once. Closing it (or opening the event) removes it from every tab.
  • It doesn't linger. It goes away on its own a few minutes after the event starts, or sooner if you set an auto-close time.
  • It can't break the page. The card is isolated from the website's own styles, so it looks the same everywhere and never changes the page around it.

Reminder settings#

  1. 1

    Open Settings → Appearance → Notifications

    Expand the Notifications card.

  2. 2

    Turn reminders on or off

    Reminder notifications shows a popup and plays a sound when a reminder is due. Turn it off to silence all of them.

  3. 3

    Choose when cards close

    Auto-close reminders closes a card automatically after a set time, or never.

Notifications settings with the Reminder notifications switch and the Auto-close reminders dropdown set to Never
Two settings: whether reminders show at all, and how long they stay.

When a reminder fires depends on the event's own reminder: the one set in Google or Outlook, or the one you choose when creating the event.

The toolbar badge#

Pin Calendario to your toolbar and its icon becomes a tiny status display:

  • The start time of your next event today, such as 10:30, when nothing is happening right now.
  • NOW while a meeting is in progress.
  • Nothing at all once your day is done.
Toolbar with the Calendario icon showing a 10:30 badge

Next event at 10:30

Toolbar with the Calendario icon showing a NOW badge

Meeting in progress

The badge updates by itself as meetings start and end.

The badge updates at the exact moments it needs to (when a meeting starts or ends), not on a timer, and it follows your 12-hour or 24-hour setting. You can tell whether you're free without opening anything.

What's next#

You've now seen the popup in detail. Part 11 shows the other ways to open Calendario: a side panel that stays open, and a floating launcher on every page.