• The Barto@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    An alarm is something urgent, 3 days and 5 hours from now isn’t urgent, that’s something you need to be reminded about, which is what the reminder prompt is for.

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      1 year ago

      An alarm is something that warns or signals, by one definition. It doesn’t necessarily need to be urgent.

      However, Google is weird. At least on my phone, I can easily set a timer for 3 days and 5 hours without a problem.

      Alarms on Google typically mean wakeup alarms. That may trigger the snooze/cancel functionality when that timer expires. Odd that you can’t set one way ahead of time.

      I am not trying to be a jackass here or anything, but I have never actually thought about the distinctions between alarms, timers and reminders. I just kinda thought they were all the same. /shrug

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      1 year ago

      Or it’s used to wake you up in the morning. If I just set an early doctor’s appointment for next week, and I need to wake up early, I’m gonna set my alarm for that right now, while I’m thinking about it, so I don’t have to worry. Frankly, the assistant is just stupid.