Schedule and reminders

The Schedule tab brings together your timetable, to-dos, reminders and scheduled tasks. This page explains how to add and change them, and how to make sure reminders arrive on time. You can also ask the assistant in chat to create any of them, for example "Remind me to hand in my homework at 8 tomorrow morning".

The tab has two views at the top: Agenda and Timetable. Once a semester is set, the title shows the current teaching week.

AgendaCopy Anchor Link

The Agenda view shows one day.

1. Pick a day in the week strip at the top. Days with classes are marked.
2. The three buttons below, To-do, Reminder and Class, each create a new item.
3. The page lists that day's classes (Today's classes for today), your To-do list, and Reminders and scheduled tasks.

Tap any item to open its edit page. The edit page has a Delete button at the bottom.

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The Timetable view shows the whole week's classes. Use the arrows to move to the previous or next week.

Set the semesterCopy Anchor Link

Teaching weeks, odd/even-week classes and class reminders all depend on the semester. The academic calendar syncs on its own once you sign in to your campus account. You can also set it yourself.

1. Under Timetable settings below the timetable, tap Semester.
2. Fill in Name, First day of week 1 and Teaching weeks.
3. Tap Save.

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This comes from the Official timetable plugin and needs your campus sign-in.

1. Under Timetable settings, tap Sync timetable from the university.
2. Tap Sync timetable.
3. If the page says Verification needed, choose Authenticator or SMS. For SMS, tap Send SMS code first. Enter the code and tap Verify and sync. If the app is your authenticator, the code is filled in for you.

Syncing replaces the classes from the last sync. Classes you added yourself stay as they are. Tap Sync again later to update.

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1. Tap Add class under Timetable settings, or Class at the top of the Agenda view.
2. Fill in Class name, Day, Starts and Ends, and optionally Room and Teacher.
3. In Weeks, enter the weeks the class meets, for example 1-16, 1-15 odd, 2-16 even or 1,3,5. Leave it empty for every week.
4. Tap Save.

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At the bottom of the Timetable view, under Class reminders (in advance), choose Off, 5 min, 10 min, 15 min or 30 min. Every class in your timetable then reminds you that long before it starts.

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Type in the box at the bottom of the To-do list and press return to add a to-do. For more fields, tap More options next to the box, or the To-do button at the top.

The to-do edit page has these fields.

• To-do and Notes.
• Due.
• Reminder: None, When due, 15 min before or 1 h before. You need a due time to get a reminder. A to-do the assistant created may have another reminder time, shown as Custom.
• Important: flags the to-do and lists it under Today even without a due date.
• Repeat: Never, Daily or Weekly. Completing a repeating to-do creates the next one, and its reminder moves along.

To-dos are grouped as Overdue, Today, Later and No date. Check the box on the left to complete one. Completed to-dos are folded at the bottom of the list; tap Show completed to see them.

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Tap Reminder at the top of the Agenda view to create a reminder.

1. Fill in Title and, optionally, Message. The message appears in the notification.
2. Choose Once or Repeat.
3. For Once, set the date and time.
4. For Repeat, set the repeat rule (see the next section).
5. Tap Save.

Each reminder in the list has a switch. Turning it off pauses the reminder without deleting it. The list shows when each reminder fires next; one that has ended shows Ended and how many times it ran.

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A repeating reminder uses one of four units: Daily, Weekly, Hourly or Minutes.

• Interval: the number after Every, such as every 3 days or every 2 weeks.
• For Weekly, choose the days of the week.
• For Daily and Weekly, you can set several times of day; tap Add time to add one.
• For Hourly and Minutes, set the moment it starts From.

Ends has three choices.

For example, "every 3 days, 16 times" is: Daily, interval 3, Ends set to After, and 16.

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Besides reminders, the assistant can create two kinds of scheduled task in chat. They appear in the Reminders and scheduled tasks list as well.

A scheduled check looks up a value on a schedule and notifies you when a condition is met, for example "Check my balance every morning at 8 and remind me if it's under ¥100".

• A check runs at most once every 15 minutes.
• It can only use read-only tools, so it never changes anything.
• Its edit page shows the condition, Recent runs and a Check now button. The AI set up the condition; to change it, tell the assistant in chat.
• After 10 failures in a row, the check pauses itself and notifies you. Once the cause is fixed, turn its switch back on in the list.

An AI task has the assistant do a task at set times in a fresh session, for example summarizing the notices once a day.

• The assistant can only use read-only tools for it, and stays quiet when there's nothing worth telling you.
• It runs at most once an hour, and at most 10 can be on at the same time.
• Tools set to Ask first can't be used by scheduled tasks.
• Its edit page has a Run now button.

At most 50 reminders and scheduled tasks can be on at the same time.

On-time deliveryCopy Anchor Link

Reminders and scheduled checks run on your phone and are woken by the system alarm, with no server involved. To have them arrive on time, the app needs these permissions.

1. Open Settings → Reminders and alerts.
2. Notifications: tap Allow. If they are blocked, tap Settings and turn them on in Android's settings.
3. Exact alarms: tap Turn on and allow PKU harness in Android's "Alarms & reminders" setting. Without it, reminders may arrive a few minutes late.
4. Unrestricted battery: tap Turn on, then Allow in the system dialog. This lets scheduled checks run on time in the background.

The same page shows whether Background checks are available, the number of Scheduled notifications, and a Send a test reminder button. The test reminder arrives in 10 seconds; go to the home screen or lock your phone to see it.

If notifications or exact alarms are missing, the Schedule tab shows a banner at the top. Tap Turn on or Open settings to fix it.

In Android's notification settings, PKU harness has three categories: Reminders (schedule, to-do and timed reminders), Check results (alerts from background checks) and Background checks (shown briefly while a check runs).

If the phone was off or Android held the app back, so that a scheduled check or AI task would run more than 2 hours after its time, that run is recorded as Missed (too late) and sends no notification.