Reminders and notifications
Reminders you or the assistant create, and how a background run reports back to you
The desktop app can reach you while its window is hidden. Two things use that: reminders, and progress reports from runs in Code and Cowork.
Reminders
A reminder is a title, a time and optionally a repetition. It reaches you as a system notification and starts nothing: it does not run the assistant, it does not open a conversation, it just tells you.
Open the list through Reminders in the sidebar. It is there in every mode, Chat, Code and Cowork, and it is one shared list.
Creating one
Either way works, and both end up in the same list:
- Ask the assistant. "Remind me about this tomorrow at nine" works in Chat, in Code and in Cowork. The assistant can also list your reminders and cancel one.
- Create it yourself in the reminders dialog, with a title, an optional longer text, a time and a repetition.
Repetition
| Option | Fires |
|---|---|
| Once | At the chosen time |
| Hourly | Every hour |
| Daily | Every day at that time |
| Weekdays | Monday to Friday at that time |
| Weekly | Once a week at that time |
A reminder can be at most a year in the future.
While the app is not running
A reminder is delivered by the app, not by the server. While the app runs, and the tray counts as running, it arrives on time. If the app was fully quit, a due reminder arrives once at the next start and is marked as overdue.
That is also why closing the window with Cmd/Ctrl+W only hides it. The app stays in the tray, so it is practically always on. Quit in the tray menu is what actually ends it.
A one-off reminder stays in the list for a week after it fired, so you can see the next day that it did come.
Notifications from a run
A run in Code or Cowork reports back when it finishes in the background, when it is waiting for an approval, and when it fails. Scheduled Cowork tasks report the same way.
That is what makes it reasonable to start a long job and switch away: you do not have to keep the window in view to notice that it stopped and is waiting for you.
The assistant can also reach out on its own during a run, for example when it needs a decision it cannot make for you.
Switching it on
Everything above goes through System notifications in Settings, Notifications. That switch is also where your operating system asks for permission, on purpose: asked at startup, that prompt gets dismissed reflexively and is then denied for good.
Which occasions actually reach you is decided per occasion in the same place. Notification settings lists them, and it holds the test notification that tells you whether they arrive at all.
Both macOS and Windows discard a notification silently if DeutschlandGPT is switched off in their own notification settings. The app is never told. If you expect a reminder and get nothing, send the test notification first.