Guides

Get more out of Remindly

Short, step-by-step guides for iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web, including how to use your notes in Claude and ChatGPT. Each one takes a few minutes and shows exactly where to tap.

Capture a thought

5 guides

New Note on your Lock Screen

Put a New Note button in a corner of your Lock Screen. Press and hold it, and Remindly opens to a blank note.

iPhone

Quick Capture on your Mac

Press Control-Option-N in any app on your Mac, type the thought and press Command-Return. You never leave what you were doing.

Mac

Siri, Shortcuts and the Action button

Say "Add a note in Remindly" to save a note hands-free, build Shortcuts with ten Remindly actions, or put a note on the Action button.

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Save web pages and links

Save articles and links from Safari with the share sheet on iPhone, iPad and Mac, or from Chrome and Firefox with the Remindly Web Clipper.

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Scan paper into searchable notes

Scan receipts, letters and handouts with your iPhone camera. Remindly reads the text on every page, so search finds the scan later.

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Remember it later

1 guide

Set reminders on your notes

Give any note a reminder, get a notification when it's due, and mark it done or snooze it right from the notification. A morning email is optional.

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Listen to your notes

1 guide

Listen with Read Aloud

Have Remindly read a note or saved article to you, follow the highlighted sentence, and choose a natural voice in Remindly's own Voice menu.

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Bring your notes in and out

2 guides

Move your notes from Evernote

Export your notebooks from Evernote as .enex files and import them into Remindly for Mac, with dates, tags, checklists, attachments and reminders.

Mac

Export your notes as Markdown

Save every note as a Markdown file, one folder per notebook, with your attachments, ready for Obsidian or any text editor. Or share one note as Markdown.

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Ask your notes

1 guide

Use your notes in Claude and ChatGPT

Add Remindly as a connector so Claude or ChatGPT can search your notes, read them, add to them and set reminders. You sign in once, and you can disconnect from Settings.

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Keep it private

2 guides

Keep your notes private

Keep your notes private: lock Remindly with Face ID or Touch ID, and share one note by a link you can limit to invited people or a password.

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Lock a note or notebook

Lock a note, or every note in a notebook, with one passphrase. Remindly stores only the locked text and files, and a forgotten passphrase can't be recovered.

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Set up your computer

1 guide

Install Remindly on Windows

Install the Remindly web app from Edge or Chrome. It opens in its own window, with a place in the Start menu and on the taskbar. It needs a connection.

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