Unforgetful: Never Lose a Task

It feels like this app is just reminding you on top of the built in reminders app. So you end up with double notifications… sometimes? If I tell something to “Remind me tomorrow”, I will see the Reminders notification come up the next day, but not this one. Maybe I just don’t understand the intended interface here. Is it the Reminders notification or the Unforgetful one?

This list has already helped me complete tasks that I had just been ignoring for months, the way it works has clicked with me. Thanks Marco!

This app is, at its core, accessibility. A specific form of Reminders just for people who need a very specific kind of reminding because that’s just how their brain works. And it’s entirely behind a paywall. Accessibility, but only for people who can afford it, which isn’t me right now thanks to “market headwinds” removing my job out from under me. Marco says “not your fault but it is your problem” and withholds this from me until I get lucky enough to have another offer letter in-hand.

Developer openly admits to using generative AI online. For this reason, I cannot recommend this app. Software made with unethical tools should not be rewarded with an annual subscription fee. I recognize the difficulty in avoiding that today, but when a developer openly admits it and it’s not something I need, I’m calling it out. And I hope others learn to hold developers to similarly high standards.

I love that it draws from the Reminders data.

Developer has been very thoughtful about what kind of simple but persistent task tracking someone like me needs. I am getting things done and not feeling as brutally overwhelmed as I used to. This is not a project management app! This is about being persistently reminded to do the things that you said you would do until you do them.

I left a similar review for the iPhone app. Overall, the desktop app is a worth companion to the iPhone one. No major issues to report and here are my overall thoughts on this excellent start to a new task app. And trust me, I have tried them all as lifelong ADD/neurodivergent brain type I’m a longtime Due user because I value its simplicity and relentlessly nagging reminders. But Unforgetful takes that philosophy somewhere more thoughtful, and may become my new default. Building on Apple Reminders was incredibly smart. I can throw something into Apple’s default app using Siri or the share sheet and have it appear automatically in Unforgetful. That alone feels transformative. One important note for Due users: Turn off Due’s Reminders import feature, or it may automatically mark new Unforgetful tasks as completed. A few feature requests that would make the app nearly perfect for my ADD brain: • A focused Now or Today view that shows only overdue tasks and things requiring attention now, with the option to hide completed tasks entirely. • A separate Future view for anything scheduled later. The late, great Swipes app did this beautifully. Something due three hours from now didn’t clutter what I needed to do right now, but it was still waiting in Future and resurfaced when relevant. • A Someday option that doesn’t become a task graveyard. Someday could default to resurfacing in 30 days, with a setting that lets users define it as 7 days, 15 days, three months, etc. • Google Calendar integration similar to Todoist, where scheduled tasks appear in a separate, color-coded calendar and can be rescheduled from either Google Calendar or Unforgetful. The magic of this app is that it already seems to understand something most task apps don’t: ADD brains don’t need to see everything we’ve ever promised ourselves we’ll do. We need to see what matters now and trust that everything else will come back at the right time. Huge thanks to Marco for creating this app, sharing his own ADD experience, and designing something that works with our brains instead of against them.

At first I wasn’t sure if this was the right thing for me. I was getting overwhelmed with all the reminders I had in my Apple Reminders app. Some from years ago I totally forgot about. I was annoyed that Unforgetful reminded me of them. But then, I started doing those tasks. Just to clear the cue. It turned out this app is what I needed to get some stuff done I have been putting off literally for years. The way the system reminds me to do things is exactly what my brain needs. I hate to admit it but this thing is literally perfect. Thanks for honestly changing my life. Using this app daily. If you know who you are who needs something like this, give this app a try.

I’m a longtime Due user because I value its simplicity and relentlessly nagging reminders. But Unforgetful takes that philosophy somewhere more thoughtful, and may become my new default. Building on Apple Reminders was incredibly smart. I can throw something into Apple’s default app using Siri or the share sheet and have it appear automatically in Unforgetful. That alone feels transformative. One important note for Due users: Turn off Due’s Reminders import feature, or it may automatically mark new Unforgetful tasks as completed. A few feature requests that would make the app nearly perfect for my ADD brain: • A focused Now or Today view that shows only overdue tasks and things requiring attention now, with the option to hide completed tasks entirely. • A separate Future view for anything scheduled later. The late, great Swipes app did this beautifully. Something due three hours from now didn’t clutter what I needed to do right now, but it was still waiting in Future and resurfaced when relevant. • A Someday option that doesn’t become a task graveyard. Someday could default to resurfacing in 30 days, with a setting that lets users define it as 7 days, 15 days, three months, etc. • Google Calendar integration similar to Todoist, where scheduled tasks appear in a separate, color-coded calendar and can be rescheduled from either Google Calendar or Unforgetful. The magic of this app is that it already seems to understand something most task apps don’t: ADD brains don’t need to see everything we’ve ever promised ourselves we’ll do. We need to see what matters now and trust that everything else will come back at the right time. Huge thanks to Marco for creating this app, sharing his own ADD experience, and designing something that works with our brains instead of against them.

I've used Due for many years and my only real problem with it is that I have to either add new reminders in the app or using shortcuts. When I want to add a reminder I'm often out for a walk with only my watch or in the car, so I’m frequently (trying to) use shortcuts to do it. And since Apple doesn't fix bugs that have existed for like 10 years, creating Due reminders with shortcuts only works like 10% of the time. The other 90% of the time you get some random (and usually infuriating) outcome. What sold me on Unforgetful is that I can create reminders using the standard reminders capabilities on the watch and in CarPlay, which Apple supports comparatively well. I've moved some things over from Due and it's working well so far. My only ask is better backgrounding on the Mac so that I don't have to keep the app open all the time.