The Gift Journal
← User Guide

The Gift Journal · User Guide

Reminders and widgets

Version 1.4 notifications are discreet by default, with richer Person/occasion detail available only through an explicit device-local opt-in.

Reminder Centre on iPhone/iPad

  1. Open Today.
  2. Tap the bell Reminders control.
  3. Review the active reminder items.
  4. Open an item to go to the relevant journal context.
  5. Mark/review reminder stages as appropriate.
  6. Use Undo when offered after a reversible reminder action.

Notification permission

  1. Open Settings → Reminders.
  2. If notifications are not allowed, use the permission/settings action.
  3. Review your default reminder timing.
  4. Use Refresh reminder schedule when you need to rebuild the local schedule.

Version 1.4 makes occasion and fulfilment notifications discreet by default. The visible notification copy is generic and time-useful rather than requiring Person names, occasion titles, Gift titles, notes, URLs, order details or hiding places.

Show more detail in notifications

In Settings → Reminders, Show more detail in notifications is OFF by default, including for existing installations that have never changed the preference.

  • Leave it off for the most discreet app-generated wording.
  • Turn it on to allow richer Person/occasion wording and the existing fulfilment return-date wording.
  • Even when enabled, Gift titles, Stored at, notes, URLs, order/reference values and source details are not added to notification content.
  • Apple’s system notification-preview settings remain authoritative and can hide previews independently.

Per-Occasion reminders

When editing an Occasion, choose whether it uses the global defaults, a custom reminder timing or no reminders. Changing an individual Occasion does not have to change the global default.

Apple Watch notification routing

The Watch does not run a separate duplicate Gift Journal reminder scheduler in the current release. Notifications are routed through Apple’s system behaviour. See Apple Watch.

Widgets

The Gift Journal provides privacy-safe read-only widget surfaces such as:

  • Next Occasion;
  • Coming Up;
  • Event Readiness.

Widget snapshots are intentionally sanitised. They do not publish private Idea titles, Hint text, URLs, notes, prices or photos by default.

Tap a widget to deep-link into the matching app context when the platform supports the route.

Mac widgets

Native Mac widgets use a separate privacy-safe snapshot and can follow the Mac theme. macOS may also show iPhone widgets through Continuity; those belong to the iPhone installation and should not be confused with the native Mac widget provider.