What a notification shows
A notification carries the page title and the site it came from, with two snooze buttons you choose. The page reopens whether or not you click it; what you do with the notification is recorded, and the three outcomes are not the same.
What is on it
- The page title — whatever the page called itself when you saved it, or the title you typed over it
- The site, and the time
- Your note, if you wrote one
- Two buttons, both snooze lengths, chosen by you in Settings → Notifications
Two buttons because Chrome allows exactly two. That is a platform limit rather than a choice, which is why the choice you get is which two — see snooze and early warning.
When it arrived late
If the reminder came due while your browser was closed or your machine was asleep, the notification says so in the message. A 10am reminder appearing at 3pm with no explanation reads as a bug; the same notification saying it is late reads as the product telling you the truth.
Several late reminders at once are gathered into a single digest notification rather than a stack, and the popup keeps a banner naming the ones you have not dealt with yet — it clears itself as you answer them. What happens when Chrome closes covers the whole path.
Click, dismiss, ignore
Latr records which of these happened, and they mean genuinely different things.
| You | What happens | Recorded as |
|---|---|---|
| Click the notification | The tab it already opened is brought to the front, rather than opened twice | Clicked |
| Press a snooze button | It comes back later; any escalation stops | Answered |
| Close it yourself | The reminder is done arriving — the tab it opened stays where it is | Dismissed |
| Let it fade | Nothing further happens; the tab is already open | Timed out — nobody was there |
The last two look alike and are not. Closing a notification is a person deciding this does not need them. A notification the OS retired because you were away was never seen at all. Merging them would make the history screen unable to answer the one question it exists for.
None of this leaves your machine. It is what lets the popup show you Recent activity and what a CSV export can include as a history column.
Changing the wording
Settings → Notifications lets you write your own title and message using four tokens:
{title}— the reminder's title{note}— your note, if any{site}— the domain{time}— when it was due
A token Latr does not recognise is left standing rather than blanked, so a typo shows up
as {titel} in the notification where you can see it, instead of a
silently missing word.
Early warnings look different
An early warning says the reminder is coming rather than that it is due. Answering one acknowledges nothing about the reminder itself — clicking "this starts in an hour" tells Latr nothing about the hour — so the real notification still arrives on time.
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