The Reminders page is your real-time operational dashboard for tracking scheduled reminder deliveries, reviewing past messages, inspecting recipient statuses, and troubleshooting skipped notifications.
Overview & Processing
Timelier automatically monitors your connected calendars and generates reminders based on your active Reminder Rules. Every generated notification appears on the Reminders page (accessible anytime by clicking Reminders in the side navigation).
The Reminders dashboard shows all upcoming and past calendar reminders grouped by date with delivery details.
Filter Views (Today, Week View, Past)
At the top of the Reminders dashboard, a toggle bar allows you to switch between three specialized time horizons:
- Today View: Displays upcoming reminders scheduled to go out during the remainder of the current day in your local timezone.
- Week View: Shows a comprehensive forward-looking schedule of all reminders queued for events across the next 7 to 8 days.
- Past View: Displays an audit trail of all reminders processed over the last 7 days (sorted in reverse chronological order, newest first).
- Date Grouping: Reminders are automatically grouped by date headers (e.g., Sep 17, 2026) so you can quickly scan daily agendas.
- Manual Refresh (): Click the refresh button in the top bar to query the latest server status and sync state immediately.
Anatomy of a Reminder Card
Each card on the Reminders page represents an individual scheduled or delivered notification:
Anatomy of an active reminder card showing delivery channel, event title, source calendar, rule name, scheduled timing, toggle switch, and expandable message body.
The main header of the card displays:
- Channel Icon: Identifies delivery path at a glance:
Gmail (
), Outlook (
), Timelier Email (), Twilio SMS (), or Microsoft Teams (
).
- Event Subject: The title of the calendar meeting or appointment.
- Calendar Source: Provider icon—Google Calendar (
), Microsoft Outlook (
), Apple iCloud (), or ICS Calendar ()—and connected account name.
- Rule Name: Displays which automation rule generated this reminder.
The right column shows the scheduled delivery time:
- Exact Time: Displayed in your account's configured timezone (e.g.
9:45 AM CDT). - Date: The scheduled delivery date (e.g.
Sep 17). - Lead Time: How far in advance of the event start time the notification triggers
(e.g.
1d before,2h before, or15m before).
Every upcoming future reminder (that has not yet sent or skipped) features an individual On/Off Switch:
- Cancel / Disable a Single Reminder: If a client calls to confirm their meeting early, you can toggle their reminder Off. A confirmation dialog appears asking: "Are you sure you want to disable this reminder?"
- Surgical Control: Disabling an individual reminder does not affect other scheduled reminders for that meeting, nor does it alter your primary reminder rule.
- Re-enable: You can flip the switch back On anytime before the scheduled delivery time arrives.
When viewing queued, completed, or skipped reminders, status icons replace the toggle switch:
| Status | Icon | Description & Behavior |
|---|---|---|
| Queued | ⏳ Hourglass | The reminder is queued in the system and waiting for its scheduled dispatch time. |
| Sent | ✅ Green Checkmark | Successfully handed off to your email provider (Google/Microsoft), SendGrid, Twilio, or Teams. |
| Skipped | 🚫 Red Cancel Icon | The reminder was not sent. Click the red icon to open the diagnostic dialog showing the exact cause (e.g. limit reached, missing phone number, or unsubscribed recipient). |
Below the event row is a collapsible card containing the message details:
- Subject Line & Header: Displays the rendered subject line (or "Message" for SMS/Teams) and an accordion toggle arrow.
-
Recipients (To / Bcc): Shows destination email addresses or phone numbers. If
multiple recipients are attached, a badge (e.g.
+2) lists the additional attendees upon hover. -
Inline Recipient Warnings: Timelier highlights potential delivery issues directly
on the card before sending:
- Missing Email or Phone: If an extraction rule failed to find an email or phone in the meeting notes, an info icon () appears with a direct link to the extraction syntax guide.
- Unsupported Number: Appears if a phone number cannot receive SMS messages (such as landlines or invalid international formats).
- Opted Out / Unsubscribed: A block icon
appears if the recipient previously texted
STOPto opt out of SMS or unsubscribed from reminder emails. - Bounced: An error badge flags addresses that previously bounced or failed delivery.
-
Expanded Message Preview: Click anywhere on the message header to unfold the full
formatted message text, verifying live placeholder values such as
{subject},{startTime}, and meeting URLs.
For SMS reminders, Timelier automatically calculates standard telecommunications segment sizing and flags when messages require multiple segments or Unicode encoding:
- Standard GSM-7 Messages: Standard plain-text SMS messages hold up to 160
characters in a single segment, displaying a badge:
1 SMS message. - Multi-Part SMS (153 chars/segment): When a standard message exceeds 160 characters, cellular networks split it into multiple parts and every segment drops to 153 characters. Timelier displays an amber warning badge (e.g., 185 chars; 2 messages).
- Emojis & Unicode (70 / 67 chars): Including even a single emoji (or special Unicode symbol) forces the entire message into UCS-2 encoding. This reduces capacity to 70 characters for a single message or 67 characters per segment for multi-part messages. Timelier flags this explicitly with a warning badge: 167 chars; 3 messages (Emoji/Unicode).
| Encoding | Single-Part Message | Multi-Part Message (Each Segment) |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Text (GSM-7) | Up to 160 characters | 153 characters / segment |
| Emojis / Special Characters (UCS-2) | Up to 70 characters | 67 characters / segment |
Tip: For maximum credit efficiency, avoid emojis in SMS reminder templates. A 165-character reminder with an emoji consumes 3 SMS credits, but without the emoji consumes only 2 credits (or 1 credit if trimmed to 160 characters).
Skipped Reasons Reference & Troubleshooting
If a reminder shows a red Skipped status, click the icon on the card to view the exact diagnostic message. The table below details all system reason codes and how to resolve them:
| Status Code | Dashboard Message | Explanation & Recommended Action |
|---|---|---|
skipped-disabled |
"This reminder was skipped because the rule or reminder was disabled." | The rule was turned off or the individual reminder switch was toggled off before send time. |
skipped-day-limit |
"This reminder was skipped because you reached your daily reminder limit." | Your account exceeded its daily outbound message sending threshold. You can upgrade your plan in Manage Your Subscription. |
skipped-month-limit |
"This reminder was skipped because you reached your monthly reminder limit." | Your account used all available monthly reminder credits. Upgrade your tier to resume immediate deliveries. |
skipped-unverified-limit |
"This reminder was skipped because it was sent to an unverified recipient and you reached the limit for unverified recipients..." | To prevent spam, free trial and unverified accounts are limited to 1 unverified email recipient per day (4 per month) and 2 SMS segments per day (4 per month). Upgrading to any paid tier lifts this restriction. |
skipped-no-phone |
"This reminder was skipped because 'SMS Reminder: [phone number]' was not found in event details." | The rule was set to extract mobile numbers from the event body, but no matching keyword was
found. Ensure your calendar appointment description includes
SMS Reminder: 555-123-4567.
|
skipped-no-recipient |
"This reminder was skipped because 'Email Reminder: [address]' was not found in event details." | The rule was set to extract email addresses, but no
Email Reminder: [email protected] tag was present in the meeting notes.
|
skipped-unsupported-number |
"This reminder was skipped because the phone number is invalid or unsupported." | The extracted or specified phone number is either formatted incorrectly, is a landline, or belongs to an unsupported country code. |
skipped-opted-out |
"This reminder was skipped because the recipient has opted out of SMS reminders." | The recipient previously replied STOP to an automated text. For legal compliance
(TCPA), Timelier will not send further SMS messages until the recipient texts START
or UNSTOP. |
skipped-bounced-email |
"This reminder was skipped because the email address bounced or is invalid." | The destination mail server rejected the message (e.g. mailbox does not exist, domain inactive, or spam filter rejection). |
skipped-unsubscribed-email |
"This reminder was skipped because the recipient unsubscribed or marked a previous email as spam." | The user clicked the "Unsubscribe" link included in email reminder footers. |