Following recommendations
Remember what you were told to do.
The short version. Someone who knows more than you told you to do something regularly: take the tablet, do the exercises, change the dressing, water the plant, practise the piece. Nodding in the room is the easy part. until. keeps that routine open on your phone and comes back — sooner when you swipe it away, louder when it goes unanswered — until you tap Done. It holds the routine. It does not know what the routine should be.
Please read this first.
until. is a reminder tool, not a medical app. It does not give medical or health advice, it does not check a dose, a time or an exercise against what is right for you, and it is not responsible for the content of any recommendation or for how it turns out. What to do and when is for your doctor, physiotherapist, trainer or other specialist to say. Follow their instructions, and contact them if you have a question or if anything changes.
Advice is given once, in a calm room, by a person you trust. The routine it asks for has to be repeated at home, on an ordinary Tuesday, when nobody is watching and you are in the middle of something else. That gap is where most of it gets lost — not because you didn’t care, but because a single notification at the right minute is easy to swipe and forget.
What people use it to remember
The app does not care what the task is, only whether you closed it. These are the usual ones:
- Medication a doctor prescribed — the morning tablet, the course of something that has to be finished, the one with food.
- Exercises from a physiotherapist — the sets you promised to do every day, not only on the day before the next appointment.
- A skin-care routine from a dermatologist or cosmetologist — the evening step you skip when you are tired.
- Care routines — changing a dressing, watering a plant on its schedule, a pet’s tablet or eye drops.
- Training from a coach or trainer — the session, the stretching after it, the weigh-in you agreed to.
- Homework from a tutor — twenty minutes of practice on the days that are not lesson days.
- A nutritionist’s plan — the meal, the water, the log you were asked to keep.
You write the task in the words your specialist used. until. has no database of drugs, doses or exercises, and it never fills in the details for you.
Setting one up
- Write down what you were told, as it was said. “Tablet with breakfast, as prescribed.” “Shoulder exercises, three sets.” Add a short note or a voice memo if typing is the thing stopping you, and an emoji so you can find it at a glance.
- Choose how often it repeats. Daily, weekdays only, weekly, monthly, or every N hours between two times of day — so a thing you were told to do several times a day is one task, not four. Use the schedule your specialist gave you.
- Choose Tempo. How often it returns while you have not answered: about every two hours (Gentle), about every half hour (Steady), or every ten minutes then five (Relentless). The full intervals are on the persistent reminders page.
- Choose Intensity. How loud it may get: Quiet, Loud or Alarm. A routine can be quiet and relentless at once.
What happens on the days it goes wrong
- You swipe it away. That counts as a deferral, so the next reminder arrives sooner rather than on the same relaxed schedule.
- You are busy right now. Wait buys a real number of minutes, and the number shrinks each time you use it. On Relentless the button eventually disappears.
- You genuinely can’t today. Open the task and say so; that skips this one on purpose, with no guilt trip.
- The instructions change. Edit the task, or archive it to stop the reminders while keeping its history. If you are unsure what the new routine is, ask the person who gave it to you, not the app.
- You miss one of a repeating task. It stays in the list, still closable, and only the newest one keeps reminding you. A missed morning is recorded as a fact rather than erased.
When the specialist sets the routine
If you look after other people — a physiotherapist’s patients, a coach’s clients, a tutor’s students — the same engine can run from the other side. In a client space, the specialist keeps a list of people, assigns each one a recommendation as a task (templates cover the sentences said every week: aftercare, homework, a follow-up call), and the person receives an ordinary until. reminder on their own phone. They join as a guest for free and see only their own tasks.
The specialist sees what is open for each person and a short read on how many tasks were actually closed over the last 14 days — and says so honestly when there is not enough history yet. Inside a family, assigned tasks work the same way, a task that rings someone else’s phone while staying yours.
What it is not
- Not a medical app, and not a medical record. It does not diagnose, advise, calculate doses or check interactions.
- Not a booking system, and not a replacement for asking your specialist.
- Not a scoreboard. It tells you what is still open; it does not grade you.
- Not on the web or iOS. It is an Android app, coming to Google Play; there is no store listing yet.
If one of these things keeps slipping, it is probably the ordinary reminder that is failing, not you.