Ships with the mobile app
These reminders are scheduled by your phone's operating system, so they come with the Pheidi mobile app, which isn't in the app stores yet. On the web, the equivalent is the 5 AM morning email. The settings card described here only appears in the app.
What it is
A notification on the days you have a workout, telling you what's on the plan. The important word is local: the reminder is handed to your phone's own alarm scheduler in advance, so it fires whether or not you have signal, whether or not Pheidi is running, and without any email being sent.
Nothing about these reminders is stored on Pheidi's servers. The switch, the time, and the mutes live on the device, next to the email toggles in Settings so "remind me" has one meaning across the app.
What you control
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Remind me on workout days | The master switch. Off by default, and off means nothing is scheduled at all. |
| Reminder time | The wall-clock time the reminder fires, in your device's time zone. Defaults to 6:00 AM. |
| Remind me for | Five groups: easy and recovery runs, long and medium-long runs, quality workouts, cross-training and strength, and rest days. Everything is on except rest days, which are muted out of the box. Anything you never mute keeps notifying, including workout types added to Pheidi later. |
| Quiet hours | Off by default. Switch it on and a reminder falling inside the window (9 PM to 7 AM unless you change it) is skipped rather than delayed. The window can wrap past midnight. |
If you've turned notifications off for Pheidi at the OS level, the settings card says so and points you at your device settings, rather than silently pretending to schedule reminders that can never appear.
What the reminder says
The title is Today's run for a run and Today's workout for anything else, and the body is the same one-line description of the workout the app shows you, in your plan's own unit.
How far ahead they're scheduled
Pheidi hands your phone reminders for the next 14 days at a time, one per day that has a workout you haven't muted, plus today if today's reminder time hasn't passed yet. Because those sit in the operating system's own scheduler, the whole window keeps firing even if you never open the app and never come back online. It is topped back up every time you save settings or return to the app.
A reminder whose time has already passed today is skipped rather than fired late, and so is any reminder that would land inside your quiet hours.
How this differs from a push notification
These reminders are the things your phone can work out for itself from the plan it already has. Anything that needs the server to know something first, whether you logged today's run, what the weather did to your target, where you are in your training block, arrives as a push notification instead. Both use the same single OS notification permission, and turning this switch off also retires your device from push.
The web app is live today, sign in to build a plan and turn on reminder emails.
See also
- How Push Notifications Work The four server-sent notifications, and why they can't be scheduled on the device.
- How Workout Reminder Emails Work The 5 AM email that does the same job on the web.
- Mobile App Roadmap Where the native app is going, and how to install Pheidi as a web app today.