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I notice a lot of people comment on what they miss from Inbox, and I am very surprised to see that no one has mentioned the reminders. For me, this was the killer feature and the one feature I will miss from Inbox. Being able to combine my email and reminders in the same convenient interface was simply fantastic.

I've now settled on ticktick for handling my reminders, after testing the Google tasks stuff, Todoist, Any.do, and more. It works well, but does not feel nowhere near as smooth as Inbox.

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As a replacement for reminders I've been emailing myself and then using the snooze feature to hide it until later. It works but adds extra friction to creating the reminder and is very clunky.

I'd love it if someone could create a Gmail add-on which gets us closer to the ease of use of Inbox reminders.

Reminders, bundles, UI and travel features were great.

Never had my inbox so clean, before.

Reminders still exist on Google Calendar, in both the browser and Android apps. They even appear as notifications on my phone at the scheduled time.

It's the one thing I keep coming back to as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19554475

Reminders among emails just makes a lot of sense. I'm going to miss them.

Another convenient feature I use is to schedule reminders via the Google Voice Assistant (e.g. remind me to buy toilet paper tomorrow morning) and it popped up in the Inbox. Nowadays, I manage those reminders via the Google calender - all pending reminders are merged into one entry at the current day - it's not very convenient and I hope so much GMail will add this feature soon.

You can do reminders in gmail too, just click on the clock icon. You can also schedule send your email now which is pretty cool https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...

I think you're conflating snoozing with reminders. Snoozing allows you to hide emails until a later moment in time, whereas reminders allows you to add arbitrary items to your inbox (e.g. "Visit dentist") which you can then also snooze until the appropriate moment. The experience might be replicated by sending an email to yourself and snoozing that, but that involves far more friction.

What made you choose tick tick over Todoist?

I basically just want a simple app to schedule reminders at given times. I need to add recurring reminders as well.

I liked the simplicity and UI of Todoist, but I had to pay to get the reminder feature. I don't mind paying, but I had no way of testing the feature first.

The main thing that I miss from Inbox (except having everything at the same place) is for the reminders to only show up on the specified time. Ticktick, as many todo apps (all that I've tested) will show me all reminders for a given day.

I just went back to sending email to myself -- it's pathetic.

Gmail is releasing a feature in a couple weeks to let you schedule outbound emails. This seems like the perfect reminder system.

and yet, having notifications from Keep visible not only on smartphone's push, but actually in mail list, was so useful. I like Keep and unless it's going to be killed like Inbox I'm not switching back to mailing myself, or other less convenient UI of alternatives.

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