# An app for people who struggle to remember tasks

DevFeed: [An app for people who struggle to remember tasks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/unforgetful-38596.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://marco.org/2026/08/14/unforgetful>)

Author: Marco Arment

Published: 2026-08-14T12:31:43Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Marco.org](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/marco-org.md>)

Topics: [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/notifications.md>)

## AI overview

The author describes how ADHD and severe forgetfulness affect daily life, explains how computers, calendar alarms, voice capture, Siri, and notifications help, and discusses why Apple's Reminders app does not fit their needs. The supplied text ends before describing the author's app in detail.

## Source excerpt

I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, "just" needed to try harder, and wasn't living up to my potential. I'll be working on the resulting shame and anxiety for the rest of my life.2 If someone tells me, "Remember to pick up the dry cleaning tomorrow," I definitely won't remember. If someone tells me, "Remember to put the laundry in the dryer in ten minutes," I probably won't even remember that. If you're thinking, "It's just ten minutes! Nobody can possibly forget that," I have made an app that's probably not for you. * * * Computers saved me. Despite constantly being told that I'd never get a good job, computers provided a lucrative career path filled with even worse academic performers who couldn't care less about my grades. What a stroke of luck! I'd be mediocre to terrible at most jobs, but I turned out to be very good at using computers to turn coffee and Phish into money. But computers also save me in smaller, everyday ways. They help me remember. * * * Sorry, I just had to go put the laundry in the dryer, which I had forgotten. Really. It's that bad. * * * Calendar alarms changed my life. Events without alarms don't happen. (If you're thinking, "Why doesn't he just check his calendar?" I have made an app that's probably not for you.) I had less success with reminders until we had ubiquitous voice capture. If I think of something at inconvenient times, like while driving or exercising, I need to capture it immediately or I'll forget. It cannot wait until I get to my phone or computer. It has to be recorded right then or it's gone. Siri, for all of its faults, has always been very good at creating tasks in Apple's Reminders app -- and Siri is everywhere. Computer. Phone. Car. Watch. I can almost always ask Siri to add something to Reminders. So Reminders' integration and ubiquity are invaluable to me. The Reminders app, though, do