Notifications

From the notifications menu, you can enable push notifications, set tracker and event alerts, and view both upcoming and past notifications.

Viewing your notification menu

There are two easy ways to view your notifications menu in AKESO: from the navigation bar or from the settings menu.

From the navigation bar

1. Look to the left corner of your navigation bar to find your notifications center.

2. Tap the notification bell to view all your unread notifications.

3. Press “Manage” to open your notifications menu.

From the settings menu:

1. Open the settings menu by pressing the triple bar (≡) icon in the top right corner of your screen.

2. Next, tap on “App Settings” to open the app settings menu.

3. Click on “Notifications” to open your notifications menu.

 

Creating notifications

Easily create custom notifications for each of AKESO’s 18 health trackers and any saved calendar event from the notification menu.

Tracker Notifications

1. To create a custom notification for any health tracker, first, locate the “Configure notifications” heading in the notifications menu.

2. Press the “Trackers” button to open the tracker notifications menu.

3. Tap anywhere in the “Add new notification” text box to open the drop-down list of available trackers.

4. Select the tracker you wish to create a custom notification for.

If you are creating notifications for an activity, environmental factor, medication, supplement, or symptom, a new drop-down menu will appear.

Select the activity, environmental factor, medication, supplement, or symptom you would like to create a notification for.

5. Tap the “(+) ADD” button to create your notification.

6. Tap anywhere in the “Daily” textbox to edit your notifications frequency.

You can choose to repeat notifications daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.

7. Next, tap the current time to set your notifications time.

8. Once you have finished customizing your notification, tap the green plus (+) icon to activate your alert.

9. To add additional reminders, press the colored “Add reminder” button toward the bottom of the category.

* NOTE: The “Add reminder” button will only appear AFTER you’ve activated your previous alert.

10. Repeat steps 6-8 above to customize your new notification.

 

Deleting Tracker Notifications

1. To delete custom tracker notifications, look to the far right of your active alert to find a red “X” button.  Tap this button to delete your notification.

2. Confirm your deletion by pressing the red “Confirm” button.

3. Alternatively, you can delete all notifications for a category at once by looking for the red trashcan to the right of the category’s title.

4. Confirm your deletion by pressing the red “Confirm” button.

 

Calendar Alerts

1. To create a custom alert for any saved calendar event, first, navigate to your calendar using the navigation bar or the convenient “Calendar” button in your notifications menu.

2. Next, the event you wish to add an alert to in any calendar view.

3. Tap on the event name to open the event menu.

4. Look to the far right of the menu’s title to find a pencil icon.

5. Press this icon to open the edit event menu.

6. Scroll down to find the “Alert(s)” textbox.

7. Tap anywhere inside this textbox to start editing your event’s alerts.

8. Select any of the available alert types by tapping the check box to the far right.

9. Once you are happy with your selections, look to the bottom of your screen to find an illuminated “Save” button. Tap this button to save your changes.

10. To delete calendar alerts, simply uncheck the relevant box and resave your selection.

NOTE: You can also delete all event alerts by deleting the corresponding calendar event. 

To learn more about deleting calendar events, visit our editing calendar events guide .