Reminders and upcoming care

A reminder is one future job for one animal, such as a recheck, a booster or a paperwork deadline. When it comes due, it shows on your Today page and in the animal's care schedule, where you can mark it done, skip it or snooze it.

For a routine with several repeating tasks, use a care plan instead.

Create a reminder

1. Open the animal's Records tab, choose Add record, then Reminder.
2. Enter a Title and a Due Date. You get a notification on that date.
3. Under Completed by logging a..., choose the record you expect to add when the job is done, such as Vaccination. When the reminder comes due, its button opens that record form. Choose Nothing to log (reminder only) if no record is needed.
4. If Prefill appears, type a detail to copy into that record, such as the vaccine name.
5. To make the reminder come back, choose a Repeat option, such as Daily, Weekly on a day, Monthly on a date or Annually on a date. Then choose when it Ends: Never, On a date or After a number of times.
6. For an extra heads-up, choose Expand extra fields and set Additional Notification Before Due Date (Days).
7. Add a Description if it helps, then choose Save Record.

For any other pattern, choose Custom… under Repeat. In Custom repeat, set Repeat every, for example 6 months. Turn on Count from the day it's completed if the next one should count from the day you actually did the job, not from the original due date.

A reminder starts private. To let other members see it, turn on Make public before you save.

Use a follow-up date instead

Already recording a vaccination, medication, examination, procedure or breeding record? Fill in its Follow-up Date. On a routine care record, such as a hoof trim, the field is Next visit. For some care, like a dog's yearly dental check, Creatures may fill it in with the usual gap. Either way, Creatures creates a linked reminder for that date. Clear the date if you don't want one. Saved a hoof trim with no Next visit? If you own the animal, Track this regularly then offers to set the next one.

Creatures keeps a linked reminder's completion and repeat settings in step with the record it came from. You can still change its title, date, description and notice.

When it comes due

On Today, the reminder shows with the animal's name. When three or more animals of one species have the same reminder, Today folds them into one row with the count. Select it to see each animal. Choose Mark done, or Complete if it opens a record form to fill in. On a computer, Mark done is the check mark button. The three-dot button next to it has Snooze 1 hour, Snooze 1 day and Skip. Skip asks you for a reason.

The reminder email has a button to answer it. Mark done opens Today and asks Yes, mark done to confirm. Log it opens the record form. Opening the link saves nothing on its own. A feeding email has Ate, Refused and Not today. For an animal only you own, Ate or Refused opens Confirm feeding for 6 hours after the email. It saves the feeding without signing you in.

The animal's Records tab shows the same reminder under Care schedule, with Mark done, Skip, Snooze and Edit reminder.

Only mark a reminder done when the work really happened. To look back at past reminders, choose Reminder history next to the record filters on the Records tab.

Related information

• Create and manage a care plan
• Your Today page: what's due and how to check it off
• Vaccinations, treatments and vet visits
• The animal records tab

Updated on: 04/11/2026