Schedules & doses
8 guides on schedules & doses with Pill Reminder.
Every day, specific days, or every few days
The four schedule types and when each one is right — including the difference between “every second day” and “Monday, Wednesday, Friday”, which are not the same thing.
Several doses a day, with different amounts
Two in the morning and one at night is two times, each with its own amount. How to set up a multi-dose medicine and how the doses appear on the day.
As-needed medicines: painkillers, inhalers, antihistamines
Medicines with no schedule still belong in the record. Log a dose when you take one, and see how often you have been reaching for it.
A course of medicine with a start and an end date
A week of antibiotics should stop reminding you after a week. Set an end date and the medicine finishes by itself, with its history intact.
Half tablets, liquids, drops, inhalers and injections
The form you pick decides how a dose is counted and worded — tablets in halves, liquid in ml, an inhaler in puffs, an injection in units.
Before food, with food, or after food
Mark how a dose relates to a meal and it is shown on the reminder and on Today — as information, never as a rule the app enforces.
Track how many pills are left and get a refill reminder
Tell the app how many you have and it counts down with every dose recorded, then warns you a few days before you run out — while there is still time to get a prescription.
Tell your pills apart: colour, shape and a photo
Give each medicine the colour and shape it really has, or a photo of the box, so the right one is obvious at a glance — to you or to whoever is helping.