Briefings and reminders

Kept sends few notifications, and every one of them is yours to turn off. There are four kinds.

The three briefings run on Cloud AI and pause when it is off. Only the morning briefing arrives as a notification, _Good morning. First: …_; the midday refocus quietly re-sorts your afternoon and the nightly reflection works overnight, and both show their results in the app. Task reminders are local notifications that need no cloud at all. Where your account has Your day, the morning notification reads _Your day_ instead.

What the morning briefing says

The briefing opens with a short greeting that names your first priority in your own words, _Good morning. First: …_, or _Good morning. Here's your day._ when nothing is queued first. The identity line under it is the one your plan carries for the day, word for word: the greeting never writes, rewrites or adds one.

A day with only Your day waits for a composed morning briefing before showing its greeting card.

Something worth noticing comes from the nightly reflection. It names a pattern only after Kept has seen it at least four times each way, such as four short nights beside four full ones, and it says only what those numbers show, never a guess at why. Anything Kept does not track is left out rather than counted as zero, and a day with no timed event on your calendar counts as unknown, not free. It quotes only the numbers and dates it measured, never ties a task to one of your goals on its own guess, and mentions at most one overdue task, so it never reads as a list of what you have not done. A task with a long title can be its subject like any other. On a night the reflection cannot write anything new, the last one it wrote stays while that night's data still supports it, and the rest of your briefing still arrives.

An area to tend appears when an area you care about has gone quiet. Activity that carries no area, such as events from a calendar that is not tied to one, can be where that area's time went, so Kept says nothing about an area whenever such activity could account for the gap. Its wording is fixed: one plain line about what Kept can see, and for an area Kept cannot see, two optional paths, never a request to log anything.

Your day

Your day is a calm summary of what changed in your notes and your plan since yesterday, and what today holds. It sits at the top of Today on iPhone and Mac, above your priorities, as a card with two lines and Read report. The report opens with Yesterday, then This morning, then today's plan, then anything waiting for you.

Every line comes from what your account recorded, never from a model's summary, and is written about your notes and your plan:

• _10 notes found their place in Product / Research._ If you moved some back, the line says so: _You moved 2 back._
• _3 priorities for today._ When you refreshed the plan yourself it says _You refreshed your plan: 3 priorities._, and a plan whose order changed says _Today's plan changed order._, never that a task's priority changed.
• A day with nothing recorded says _No changes recorded yesterday._ When part of your activity could not be loaded, it says _Some activity could not be loaded._ instead of claiming a quiet day.

Yesterday is your own calendar day in your profile time zone, including the days the clocks change. Changes made after midnight, such as notes placed overnight, appear under This morning. Task titles and folder names are looked up when you open the report, so a renamed folder shows its new name.

The report is prepared after the overnight pass and refreshed during the morning pass. Building a plan when you return does not refresh an earlier report; its Your day card directs you to Today for your priorities. It is assembled from recorded facts with no model writing it, so it still arrives on a night when cloud work fails, and on a quiet day it is a real report with nothing changed and the plan you have. If it has not arrived when you open Today, it is prepared then. If it cannot be saved, you see the last report with its date until the next one is ready.

The report never takes the place of your morning briefing. When the report is ready before the briefing, a quiet morning still writes your briefing, and until it does, Ask Kept and connected agents read that day as having no briefing yet rather than an empty one. On accounts without Your day, the morning notification waits until the briefing is ready, even if a report was prepared earlier that day.

The notification reads _Your day_ with _Ready when you are._ and names no task, note, or folder. It arrives at your briefing time, follows the Daily briefing switch and any quiet hours kept from an earlier version, and a refreshed report never sends a second notification. Opening the report on one device marks it read on all of them.

Turn them on or off

Setup does not ask about notifications. The system asks the first time you set a reminder on a task. After that, the choice belongs to your account. See Install and sign in.

Open Settings → Notifications on either device. The screen shows whether the system currently allows Kept to notify you, your working hours, then the switches for each briefing and your briefing time. Choices sync across your devices and belong to your account.

If you turn Kept off in iOS Settings or System Settings, this screen says so and offers the system page. Kept then turns its own push off for this account on this device.

The three rhythm switches (Daily briefing, Midday refocus, Nightly reflection) work in Kept whether or not push is on: your plan, the afternoon re-sort and the reflection are prepared for you in the app. While push is off, a line above the switches says so: _Push notifications are off. Your Daily rhythm choices stay as you set them, and what they prepare waits for you in Kept._ On Mac the line sits under them.

The morning notification waits until your account has a registered push device; registering later that day leaves that day's briefing eligible. Kept distinguishes an attempted send from Apple's acceptance, and acceptance alone does not prove the notification appeared on your device.

Task reminders

Set a reminder from a task's page. Your first future timed capture may also offer one, using that item's words and time. Its receipt shows first; the reminder question waits until setup, other sheets and your editor are out of the way, then opens as a sheet of its own, with Close and the choice in reach while the explanation scrolls. For a task, the action sets that local reminder, with Change time available. For an event, Allow notifications enables reminders you set and does not add an event alarm. If the offered time passes while you choose or answer the system prompt, choose a future time before a reminder is saved. Completing the starter never asks again; an untimed capture leaves the first timed offer available. The offer is shown once per account and only while Kept has never asked about notifications: the system asks for permission only when you tap it, a no leaves the todo saved with Open Settings, and Undo on the confirmation takes the reminder back. If notifications are off for Kept, the reminder is still saved, and Kept says so: _Reminder saved · notifications are off_ with Open Settings. The task's chip then shows a slashed bell in clay beside the time, so a reminder that will not ring never looks like one that will, and tapping it offers Open Settings (Open System Settings on Mac). Turn Kept back on in the system and the chip returns to the plain bell the next time you open Kept; Kept reads the answer again every time it comes forward. A reminder whose time has passed, or whose task is done, is never marked. Each of your signed-in devices schedules its own alert from the synced time, so a reminder set on the Mac fires on your iPhone too. Completing or deleting the task cancels the alert immediately, even offline; reopening restores it. Signing out clears that account's alerts from the device.

Working hours

Working hours are when Kept may suggest times. Open Settings → Notifications → Working hours on iPhone, or the Notifications card in Mac Settings, choose the days, then a From and an Until time. Until you choose, Kept uses 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM, every day, and Use default hours returns to that. At least one day stays on; tapping the last one says _Keep at least one day._

When an opened Today card offers Earlier or Later, each opening stays inside today's working hours. It never moves the priority onto an event, before now, or into another day. When no opening fits in that direction, the control is dimmed and says why.

Opening the screen changes nothing. A day you tap is saved at once, and a time is saved once you stop changing it, or when you leave the screen, so a time you pass on the way to another is never saved. Your choice syncs between iPhone and Mac, and a screen left open shows a change you made on the other device, unless you are in the middle of an edit there.

A window can run past midnight: 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM _ends the next morning_, and those early hours belong to the day it started on. On iPhone, the Working hours row names the days and the hours Kept can use on them, so a quiet window from an earlier version narrows it. With quiet from 9:00 PM to 8:00 AM, the default reads _Every day · 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM_.

Working hours never move a reminder you set on a task or a habit, and never move your briefing, which keeps the time you chose. On iPhone, the one reminder Kept times on its own, the offer on your Record to remind you to open Kept tomorrow, lands inside your working hours, and on your next working day when tomorrow is a day off.

Quiet hours

Quiet hours are no longer set in Settings. If you set them in an earlier version, they still hold briefings and Kept's nudges until they end, and a briefing that could not be sent still waits for you in the app. Working hours shows that window in one line, for example _Kept holds briefings and nudges from 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM._ Remove overnight quiet lets them through from then on, and Undo puts the window back while the screen is still open. Working hours never add a quiet window of their own, and Kept never reads them as your sleep hours.

Nightly reflection and learning

Turning off nightly reflection also stops the overnight cloud pass that reads your recent activity to prepare the next morning. Deterministic housekeeping still runs. Daily briefing and midday refocus remain separate choices.

When you are away for 72 hours

If Kept has not seen you for 72 hours, on iPhone, on the Mac or through an agent you connected, it pauses the cloud work it does on your behalf: the overnight reflection, the plan it prepares before your morning, the midday refocus, cloud note sorting and generated goal next steps. This pause does not change your Cloud AI choice. Existing pattern insights stay as they were, without being erased or relabeled as newly learned, and learning that is still waiting remains ready for a later pass. Housekeeping that needs no cloud, including metadata-only note filing, still runs, and the morning briefing still arrives; until you are back it reads _Good morning. Here's your day._ The first time you open Kept again, Today builds your plan as you open it, and the overnight pass resumes that night.

A foreground, capture, task completion, successful connected-agent write or request to prioritize your day counts as use. App opens marked background or inactive do not count; opens from older builds that sent no state still count. The activity window uses when Kept received the event, so a fast or slow device clock does not pause reflection. Device check-ins and agent calls that only read saved information do not keep reflection running.

If you delete the event while answering its notification permission prompt, Kept closes the offer without saying the event is saved.

Next: What Kept remembers.