Tip of the Week: Task Reminder

A human mind is not so powerful to remember every instance of his/her life and of course forgetfulness is inevitable part of our souls. So we depend on various tools like friend/colleague/diary/machine to be our reminders.

And that's why we implemented "Task Reminders", in Zoho Projects, in the month of July 2011 with three options - Daily, One day before the due date and On Due. Now, this feature has been enhanced to a level where the reminder can be set 30 days prior to the task's due date.

"How does this enhancement helps?" might be the question arising in everyone's mind.

The answer is "An ability to receive the reminder notification multiple times for the same task". i.e If a task runs for a duration of 21 days, the task owner can receive the reminder notification 15 days prior, 10 days prior, 5 days prior and one day before the due date; however, by updating the reminder option each time after receiving the notification.

This way, the task owner can reshuffle the other activities - personal or official - and ensure that the task is completed on-time.

Few points to remember about this option are:

Supported in the Premium and Enterprise editions only
Accessible by all the project users (Portal Owner/Admin/Manager/Employee/Contractor)
Task's due date should not be elapsed when compared to the current date

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