RemGood User Guide

This is the same guide you will find inside the app, under Settings → About → RemGood Guide. Read it start to finish, or jump to the part you need.

Categories, Not Folders

Everything in RemGood belongs to a category — Automobile, Health, Kitchen, Warranty, or any you invent. The Home tab opens on those categories rather than a running feed, so you find things the same way you filed them. Switch between Grid view for a compact visual overview and List view for more detail, drag categories in Grid view to arrange them your way, and swipe an item right to move it to a different category, or left to delete it. Tap Select to tick several items and delete them together — they go to Deleted Items, where you can restore them.

Adding an Item

Tap the Add tab and give the item a clear name — that is the only required field. Choose a category from the list you have already built, or create a new one inline without leaving the screen. Set the Item Date for when it happened or happens, and switch on an Expiry date if it has a deadline — once that date passes, RemGood marks the item for you. Everything else is optional. New items land at the end of your priority list on the Home tab, ready to be reordered. If you open Add from inside a category, that category is selected for you automatically.

Reminders That Repeat

Switch on Enable Reminder and RemGood offers a starting point a few minutes from now — set Next Reminder Date & Time to whatever you want. From then on it is yours: editing the Item Date or Expiry Date afterwards will not move it. Choose a repeat interval and recurring obligations regenerate on their own: daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, yearly, or a custom number of days. A filter you replace twice a year gets entered exactly once, and the field always shows the next occurrence still to come. Reminders arrive as local notifications scheduled on your device, so they work with no account, no login, and no internet connection.

When a Reminder Comes Due

Any item with a reminder set carries a small bell wherever it is listed — grey while it is still waiting, so you always know a reminder exists without opening the item. Once it comes due, the bell turns orange and picks up a badge, so nothing depends on catching the notification at the moment it arrives. Its category shows a bell too, so you can see which group needs attention, and the app icon carries a count of everything waiting — kept accurate automatically, even if RemGood has been closed the whole time and several reminders fire independently. Deleting an item, or clearing its reminder, removes it from that count straight away.

Open the item and tap Acknowledge in the Reminder section to clear it. Until you do, the marks stay put — miss the notification overnight and the bell is still there, orange, in the morning. Acknowledging does not alter the reminder itself: a repeating item rolls on to its next date as usual, and the bell turns grey again until that one comes due.

When an Item Expires

An expiry date works differently from a reminder: it does not notify you, it changes how the item looks. Once the date has passed, the expiry date turns red wherever the item appears, an “Expired” tag sits next to its name in your lists, and the item’s category shows a red warning icon in both Grid and List view — so a lapsed registration is visible from the Home tab without opening anything.

Nothing is deleted, hidden, or moved. Open the item and it is flagged there too. The marks clear on their own as soon as you push the expiry date out or switch it off, which is usually what you do once the thing has actually been renewed.

If Reminders Are Silent

RemGood asks for notification permission the first time you visit the Add tab, so it is ready before you set your first reminder — and never pops up over the launch screen. Settings → Reminders shows whether notifications are currently allowed. If you have not decided yet, you can turn them on right there; if you declined earlier, that same section links straight to the relevant page in iOS Settings.

If reminders are silent overnight specifically, a Focus such as Sleep or Do Not Disturb is the usual cause. RemGood marks its reminders as Time Sensitive so they can break through, but each Focus decides whether to honour that — turn on Time Sensitive Notifications for that Focus in iOS Settings.

Rich Notes

Every item has a notes field that handles more than plain text: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, bullet lists, checkboxes, and any text size you like, set with a simple − / + control. Select All and Clear (which asks before it wipes anything) cover whole-note changes. It is the right place for the model number, the steps you follow every time, or the detail that does not belong in a title. Tap the keyboard icon beside a field to lower the keyboard and keep scrolling.

Photos & Documents

Attach as many photos as an item needs, taken with the camera or picked from your library, along with documents such as receipts, manuals, and warranty cards. Copies are stored inside the app on your device, so they are not links that can break later. Optionally, photos you capture in RemGood can also be saved to your own Photos library — that setting is off by default.

Viewing & Editing an Item

Tap any item and it opens ready to edit — there is no separate edit button and no mode to switch into. Change any field directly and your changes save automatically when you go back. Tap Cancel to discard them instead, or Delete to remove the item entirely.

Search, Filter & Sort

The Search tab looks across names, notes, and categories as you type. Narrow the results to a single category, and sort by Priority, Record Date, Reminder, or Expiry depending on what you are trying to answer. Each result shows its recorded date, next reminder, and repeat interval inline, which is often enough without opening the item. Sort by Priority to see items in the exact order you arranged them on the Home tab.

The Reminders Tab

This tab answers one question: what is coming? List view shows upcoming reminders grouped by month in chronological order, while Calendar view lays them out across a month or week for anyone who thinks spatially about time. The Due picker opens on All Pending so you see everything ahead at a glance, and narrows to Today, This Week, This Month, This Quarter, or This Year.

Managing Categories

In Settings → Category you can add, rename, reorder, or delete categories. RemGood ships with a sensible starting set, but the app works best when the categories match how you actually think about your life — specific ones like Finance, Health, and Warranty beat a single catch-all.

Deleting Items & the Recycle Bin

Deleted items are not gone immediately. They move to a recycle bin, found under Settings → Deleted Items, where you can restore anything you removed by mistake or delete it permanently once you are sure. Deleting an item also clears its reminder, so a restored item comes back without one — set a new reminder if you still want it.

Cleaning Up Automatically

If you would rather not think about the recycle bin at all, open Settings → Auto-Delete Settings and pick a retention period. RemGood then quietly clears anything older, so deleted items do not accumulate indefinitely.

App Lock

Turn on Enable Passcode in Settings → Security and RemGood opens only with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. Authentication is handled entirely by iOS; the app receives nothing more than whether it succeeded. It is off by default — one switch when you want it.

Appearance & Themes

Choose an App Mode — System, Light, or Dark — and an accent App Color. Premium themes go further with curated palettes such as Navy & Gold, Charcoal, and Deep Burgundy. It is a small amount of personalization on top of an interface that otherwise stays out of your way.

Backup & Restore

Because nothing syncs to a server, your backup file is how you move data between devices. Export produces a single file containing every item and attachment, and Import restores it later or onto a new phone. The file is compressed but not encrypted or password protected, so store it somewhere you trust and delete it once you have finished restoring. Back up before you upgrade or reset a device.

Privacy by Design

RemGood has no account, no sign-in, and no server. Everything you record is stored locally on your device, the app does not connect to the internet to send or receive your data, and there are no analytics, trackers, or third-party SDKs anywhere in it. The deliberate tradeoff is that devices do not sync — your iPhone and iPad each keep their own set of items, and the backup file is the bridge between them.

What RemGood Is Best For

RemGood is built for the everyday and the non-critical: service dates, filters, renewals, warranties, the restaurant dish you want to order again. As a precaution, avoid storing highly sensitive details — driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, or financial account numbers — in the app or in a backup file. Used the way it is intended, RemGood frees your mind: if it is in RemGood, it is remembered.

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