iPhone reminder to do PT exercises?

October 19, 2017 7:09 AM

I have to do a bunch of physical therapy exercises. Is there a good iPhone app to remind me to do them?

There's a variety: do this exercise once in the morning, do this one every few hours, do this one every other day. Using the alarms or Reminders app isn't ideal. I don't need examples of the exercises, just a pop up saying "stretch your back" or whatever at the appropriate intervals. Ideally I'd be able to set it to "every two hours," not "noon, 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM," in case I'm late to a set.

posted by The corpse in the library to Technology (4 answers total)

Best answer: A medication reminder app should help you with the "every x hours" bit. I had one but I don't remember what it was called. You could also set it up so that if you took a pill, it would start the x hours from there so you don't overdose (e.g. Tylenol only every 8 hours). The medication name was a free text field. Sorry I don't remember the name, but this might give you a starting point.
posted by AFABulous at 8:27 AM on October 19, 2017

Best answer: I love Due, a very smart reminder app that makes you either check things off or actively postpone them. Works particularly well with my Apple Watch, and very customizable - I have reminders set for alternate Thursdays at 10:50 AM to send out call-in information for a recurring meeting, for example, and it is nagging me every 10 minutes because I still haven't got to it. I know, I know, I'll get to it in just a bit.
posted by RedOrGreen at 9:02 AM on October 19, 2017 [5 favorites]

Best answer: Seconding Due. It's really the best for it, and you can have it nag you like crazy until you check the task off, or be more gentle. The natural language parsing is also great, so you can say "PT Exercises at 2:00 every day" and it'll know.

I think the app AFABulous is thinking of is Round Health, which I use as a pill tracker, but I could see it being used for this too. Due would probably be better, though.
posted by SansPoint at 9:48 AM on October 19, 2017

Response by poster: Due looks like just the ticket. AFABulous, I hadn't considered adapting pill reminders, and am keeping that in mind for some other stuff. Thanks!
posted by The corpse in the library at 11:01 AM on October 19, 2017