Medicine & Health Reminders

For each medicine you add, you set the reminder time — HealthAYF sends a push notification to your phone at exactly that time.

• Set multiple reminder times per day for medicines taken twice or three times daily (morning, afternoon, night)
• Reminders are per family member — your father's 8:00 AM Metformin notification is separate from your own reminders
• The notification arrives on your phone even when the app is closed
• Tap the notification to open the medicine page and mark the dose taken or skipped
• Multiple doses for the same medicine appear as a single grouped card — clear and easy to manage

Most medicine reminder apps only support daily reminders. HealthAYF supports the full range of schedules that Indian doctors actually prescribe:

Building a consistent medicine-taking habit is as important as the reminder itself. HealthAYF tracks your daily adherence streak — the number of consecutive days where all scheduled medicines were taken or intentionally skipped.

• Streak counter on dashboard: Your current streak shows prominently on the dashboard with a 🔥 icon — visible every time you open the app
• Streak on Medicines page: A streak badge appears above your Today tab dose list — a daily motivational reminder
• Milestone toasts: Special celebration notifications fire at 7, 14, 30, 60, and 100 days — milestones are remembered so the toast only fires once per milestone
• The streak is calculated correctly for complex schedules — a weekly medicine or alternate-day medicine counts only on its scheduled days
• Grace day: If yesterday was not yet logged and the prior 6 days were all clean, yesterday is treated as clean — so a forgotten log at midnight does not break a long streak

A reminder that goes unacknowledged is not the end — HealthAYF tracks what happened and surfaces it the next day.

• Auto-midnight logging: At 12:05 AM IST each night, any dose from the previous day that was not marked taken or skipped is automatically recorded as Missed. No manual entry needed.
• Missed Yesterday panel: The next morning, an amber panel at the top of your Today tab shows what was missed yesterday — you can mark it as taken late or acknowledge it as missed.
• Missed doses feed into the adherence summary — so your doctor sees an accurate picture, not just the days you remembered to log.
• Weekly and alternate-day medicines are only marked missed on their scheduled days — the app understands your schedule.

The IAP (Indian Academy of Paediatrics) vaccination schedule has over 20 vaccine doses across the first 5 years of a child's life. Missing a window — even by a few weeks — can mean additional doses or reduced efficacy.

HealthAYF handles the tracking automatically:

• Add a child's date of birth — HealthAYF calculates when each upcoming vaccine is due
• A push notification arrives 7 days before a vaccine is due — so you have time to book a paediatrician appointment
• Another notification arrives 1 day before the due date as a final reminder
• Log each vaccine as given — HealthAYF moves to tracking the next dose in the schedule
• Overdue vaccines are flagged — so nothing is missed even if a reminder was dismissed

When you log a doctor visit in HealthAYF and set a follow-up date, the app sends an email reminder before the appointment — so neither you nor your family member misses a scheduled specialist visit.

This is especially important for:

• Cardiologist follow-ups — typically every 3–6 months for hypertension patients
• Diabetologist follow-ups — typically every 3 months for HbA1c review and medication adjustment
• Post-surgery follow-ups — fixed dates that are easy to forget weeks after discharge
• Paediatric checks — scheduled growth and development assessments

HealthAYF does not just remind — it tracks. Every time you mark a dose as taken, skipped, or missed, that is recorded in the medicine history.

• See an adherence percentage for each medicine over 7, 30, or 90 days
• Identify patterns — does your father consistently miss his evening dose? The log shows it
• Show the adherence log to a doctor alongside vitals data — "He missed 8 doses in the last month" is critical context for why BP readings have been variable
• Adherence is calculated correctly for the schedule type — a weekly medicine counts one scheduled dose per week, not seven
• As Needed medicines are excluded from adherence calculations — they will not inflate your missed count

Setting up reminders takes under 2 minutes per medicine:

• Select the family member whose medicine you are adding
• Add the medicine name, dosage, and frequency — Daily, Weekly, Alternate Day, or As Needed
• For Weekly: tap the day pills to select which days (e.g. Sunday for Vitamin D)
• Set the reminder time(s) for each dose
• Enable push notifications on your device if prompted (required for the notifications to arrive)
• The reminder fires at the set time from the next scheduled occurrence — no need to wait until the following day