Reminders and notifications
The daily reminder, the streak alert, technique-specific notifications, the tone of the texts, quiet hours, holiday mode and the daily cap. What each one does and how to set it.
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All the notifications live under Profile → Settings → Notification options. They are all scheduled on your device: nothing is pushed from a server.
The daily reminder
The most basic one. You can pick a separate time for each day of the week, and add more than one time to a day. A day left empty gets no reminder.
If you'd rather not set them one by one, Make every day the same as Monday does it in a tap.
A time is suggested from your answer to "when do you usually practise" in the intake. You can change that time whenever you like.
With Don't send if I've practised that day on, the evening reminder is dropped once you've done your morning session. It's on by default.
If you have a program running, the daily reminder tells you the program's day as well.
The streak alert
The alert that comes when your streak is at risk — that is, when you haven't done a session that day and the day is nearly over. You choose the first alert time yourself.
If a streak shield will keep that day, no alert comes. If your streak has broken, a notification reminds you about the repair on the first day of the repair period, on the last day and, if the period is long, once in the middle. On those days it comes in place of your daily reminder, if you have one. If you turn the streak alert off, the repair notifications don't come either.
Android
On Android there is also an end-of-day countdown: if you haven't done a session yet that day, a notification appears in the evening and counts down to midnight, showing how much time your streak or shield has left. It goes away by itself once you do the session. Start now opens quick start. If you swipe the notification away, it doesn't come back that day. If you don't want it at all, turn off the End-of-day countdown switch in the notification settings.
Whether it repeats is a separate setting: one alert, hourly, or down to every five minutes. The repeats stop as soon as you do the session.
By default this alert sits outside your daily cap, so a full cap can't cost you your streak. You can count it towards the cap if you prefer.
Technique-specific notifications
Separate reminders for particular moments:
- The Energizing Breath when you wake up
- 4-7-8 in the evening before bed
- The week's summary on Sunday evening
On top of these there is a focus reminder during the day: it suggests an unlocked technique that suits the time of day.
For the sleep and wake reminders you give a window — "earliest" and "latest". The notification lands somewhere inside it. The bedtime reminder comes even if you have already done a session that day.
These are turned on and off individually. If your health notes steer you away from a technique, that technique's notification can't be turned on at all, and the reason is written next to it.
Lock and badge nudges
Notifications that let you know when a new technique is close to unlocking, when an achievement is nearly in reach, or when a milestone is a day or two away. All three can be turned off separately.
The unlock nudge also tells you which session to do: "one more Box Breathing session for Alternate Nostril", for instance.
No nudge comes for techniques your health notes steer you away from.
The tone and the sound
Tone sets how the sentences read: Short, Motivating or Calm. The same notification arrives with a different sentence in each.
With Notification sound on, you can pick a theme under Notification sounds. Reminders play that theme's sound, and the streak alert and the welcome-back notification play the same theme's own sounds. Notification sound can be turned off; the notification still comes, quietly.
Quiet hours
The window when you don't want to be disturbed. The notifications the app suggests on its own don't arrive during these hours.
If a reminder you set yourself falls inside quiet hours, the app shows you, but that reminder still comes: you chose its time yourself.
If you take a long break
When your streak breaks, notifications become welcome-back messages. Your daily reminder still comes at its own time, now calling you back. If you have no reminder, the app reminds you itself during the day. Once you do a session, notifications go back to how they were.
If you go a long time without any session, notifications stop altogether, and they start again once you do a session.
The daily cap
You decide how many notifications can arrive in a day at most. If the cap is full when you try to turn on a new kind, the app warns you and offers a one-tap fix like "Raise the cap to 2 and turn it on".
Notification texts
You can change the sentences used in notifications. There are sample texts, and you can write your own. If you want only your own text used, there is an option for that too.
Recently sent notifications
At the bottom of the settings, the notifications sent recently are listed with their text and time. If you missed one, or wonder when one arrived, look here.
Resetting the settings
If you've fiddled with everything and lost track, Reset notification settings puts it all back to the starting state: times, cap, quiet hours and the texts you wrote yourself.
Android
Permission and battery settings on Android
On Android 13 and later, showing notifications needs your permission. The app asks for it at the end of the intake quiz and when you turn notifications on. If you didn't allow it, turn it on in Android Settings → Apps → Soluklan → Notifications.
Some manufacturers restrict apps in the background to save battery: Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, OnePlus and others. That restriction can delay reminders or stop them from showing at all. To get reminders on time, keep Soluklan out of battery optimization: under Settings → Apps → Soluklan → Battery, choose Unrestricted or Not optimized. The menu names differ by brand and Android version. If you can't find it, type "battery" into the search box in Settings.
On Android 12 and later the system can hold reminders back by a few minutes to save battery. A shift of that size is normal.
If you don't want notifications at all
You can turn them all off. The app works completely without them; your streak, programs and milestones all carry on the same.