Asking a fitbit to set a timer for 2 hours is dumber.
Apparently it only supports a 1h39m59s at a maximum. So responds saying it can’t set that timer. But then offers clickable suggestions for 1h50m and 2h10m … which gets you the exact same response.
I have felt this too! Reminders are usually pop up notifications that are easy to miss. I may have a temporary solution. On Android I can select the days on which the alarm should ring. It gets a bit annoying if your date is more than 7 days in the future. But still gets the job done
You know what’s even more annoying? You can set a notification or email reminder to go off prior to a calendar appointment, but can’t set an alarm to go off prior to one. I need my phone to make noise when it’s time for me to get ready, not just show a notification!
Notifications have a lower level of priority than an alarm. Notification volume is set differently than alarm volume. Alarms take over the screen whereas notifications just give you a prompt at the top. As a person with ADD, it’s a huge inconvenience and I need to use workarounds that are unreliable. I just want a ducking alarm when I need it without getting some stupid artificial limitation on why I can’t do it.
I have the same problem as the person above and for me at least, my phone is always on silent. I use a smart watch and only select priority notifications go to it, anything else, I’ll just see it when I next pick up my phone. A notification, even if it’s sent to my watch, I might miss, but an alarm will always make noise, vibration, basically will get my attention for sure. So for people like me and I’m guessing the commenter above, grue, who are trying to minimize the ways our devices distract us, notifications aren’t gonna cut it when I want an alarm for something important.
Nah. Fuck that.
If I want to wake up early on Tuesday next week what I need is an alarm that morning. A human would understand the prompt and do it correctly, a computer assistant should be able to do exactly the same.
An alarm is something urgent, 3 days and 5 hours from now isn’t urgent, that’s something you need to be reminded about, which is what the reminder prompt is for.
An alarm is something that warns or signals, by one definition. It doesn’t necessarily need to be urgent.
However, Google is weird. At least on my phone, I can easily set a timer for 3 days and 5 hours without a problem.
Alarms on Google typically mean wakeup alarms. That may trigger the snooze/cancel functionality when that timer expires. Odd that you can’t set one way ahead of time.
I am not trying to be a jackass here or anything, but I have never actually thought about the distinctions between alarms, timers and reminders. I just kinda thought they were all the same. /shrug
Or it’s used to wake you up in the morning. If I just set an early doctor’s appointment for next week, and I need to wake up early, I’m gonna set my alarm for that right now, while I’m thinking about it, so I don’t have to worry. Frankly, the assistant is just stupid.
I have to get up early for work next Thursday. Should I set a reminder for myself for next Wednesday to remind myself to set my alarm for the next morning?
It’s significantly faster to just tell it to set an alarm than it is to go into the app and do so manually, wanting it to work with all of the features isn’t asking a lot
Seriously, people in the comments seem to have drunk so much google coolaid it isn’t even funny. It’s an obvious bug that doesn’t let your “digital assistant” setup something that you personally would be able to setup.
There isn’t a rationale here, there isn’t some hidden tech, it’s just shitty design.
It was not my aim to defend Google on my first remark, only to gently mock what seems a triviality. I found this post among gloomy world news, out of its proper context. Such a contrast can make anything seem absurd.
The whole problem is that you can’t set an alarm more than 24 hours ahead of time unless you set it to repeat. The timer also gets reset if the phone restarts or if you bump the stop button on the notification screen. Workarounds work most of the time but they set you up for problems. The artificial limitation is unnecessary and just creates problems for people like myself who have ADD.
I said so elsewhere to one other, but I will reiterate that the jest came from viewing the remark outside of its proper context. I apologize for trivializing the matter.
This has probably saved lots of people from accidentally setting an alarm too far in the future when they meant to set it for the next morning. You may not agree with the choice, but I’m sure this has helped more people than it has annoyed.
Have you been watching the AI landscape of the past year? It’s moving fast, and I am hoping bard + assistant integration will take things to the next level
Which is why I don’t feel bad for verbally abusing it when I say “text [name] don’t forget to put those breadsticks away period if you don’t eat them comma I will” and the infernal machine does a google search for that instead sending a text to [name] with the message “Don’t forget to put those breadsticks away. If you don’t eat them, I will.”
Yeah assistant I wanted to see fuckin reddit threads loosely related to breadsticks and texting, I super didn’t want you to do the thing I explicitly said to do.
You absolutely can set an alarm for a specific day in google clock version 7.6 from the play store.
After you set the alarm if you click on it you can give it a name such as “laundry” and set it for a specific day such as “Sunday”
I have alarms for workdays and alarms for times to take medicine.
You can set an alarm for a early wake up for a flight time a week ahead of time if you want. The assist is super basic to protect you from doing dumb shit, but you absolutely can do it manually.
Doesn’t that just suggest that the thing doesn’t work right if they have to do this to avoid incorrect settings? I’m pretty sure 100% of people who want to set an alarm this far out but can’t are annoyed.
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