Four ways to save a reminder

Four gestures, and three of them open nothing at all. Which one you should use depends on whether you already know the time — not on which is newest.

1 · The toolbar icon

Click the Latr icon and the composer opens with the page title already filled in and a sensible time already chosen, so changing the time is usually the only thing left to do.

This is the one to use when you want to see what you are saving: set a repeat, add a note, pick a tag, choose a folder. Everything beyond the time sits behind a More disclosure, because most saves do not need it.

If the icon is not in your toolbar, it is in the puzzle-piece menu — install and pin covers pinning it.

2 · The keyboard shortcut

Alt+Shift+Y saves the page you are on at your default offset and shows a confirmation toast. No window opens, nothing is typed, and you carry on reading.

That default is yours to set — Settings → New reminder defaults. Out of the box it is an hour out; people who mostly defer things to the next morning change it once and never think about it again. See default reminder settings.

3 · Right-click selected text

Highlight a date or time anywhere on a page — next Friday at 9am, in two weeks, tomorrow morning — then right-click and choose Remind me about this. Latr reads the time out of the words you selected and saves the reminder at it.

This is the gesture the product was built around. An announcement page tells you when something happens; every other tool makes you read that, translate it into a date, and type it somewhere else. Here the words on the page are the input.

Right-clicking with nothing selected still works: you get a short list of one-tap offers instead — see right-click date text for both halves and what happens when the selection has no time in it.

4 · The address bar

Type rem in the address bar, press Tab or Space, then write when you want the current page back:

rem next tuesday 5pm

Enter saves it. Nothing opens. This is the fastest route if your hands are already on the keyboard and you know the time — no mouse, no popup, no picker.

It accepts the same plain language the composer does, so anything on writing plain-language dates works here too. Leading words like remind are ignored, since that is what people type by reflex.

Which to use when

Situation Use

The page tells you the date Highlight it and right-click. Do not retype what is on screen.

"Later, whenever" — you just want it out of the way Alt+Shift+Y. One key, done.

You know the time and are already typing The address bar keyword.

It needs a repeat, a tag, a note or a folder The toolbar icon, where you can see all of it.

Situation	Use
The page tells you the date	Highlight it and right-click. Do not retype what is on screen.
"Later, whenever" — you just want it out of the way	`Alt+Shift+Y`. One key, done.
You know the time and are already typing	The address bar keyword.
It needs a repeat, a tag, a note or a folder	The toolbar icon, where you can see all of it.

What they all have in common

All four produce exactly the same kind of reminder. There is no lesser reminder created by the fast routes — a shortcut save repeats, snoozes, syncs, exports and reopens the page identically to one made in the composer.

All four also take a page thumbnail and, if Where you were is on, remember your reading position on the page. Both are per-gesture switches in Settings → Appearance, so you can have the toolbar icon capture a thumbnail while the address bar does not.

Something unclear, or something Latr does that this page does not cover? Tell us — the page is easier to fix than the confusion it causes.