A drink water reminder for the hours you spend at a computer
Most people who forget to drink water are not ignoring their thirst on purpose. They are deep in a document or a meeting, and an hour slips by, then another. A phone app can help, but the phone is face down on the desk. A drink water reminder on the PC appears right where your attention already is.
Simple Drink Water Reminder sends a standard Windows notification at each time on your list. It reads Time for a glass of water and tells you which glass of the day it is, for example Glass 3 of 8 today. Out of the box there are eight times between 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM, roughly every hour or two across a working day.
When you finish a glass, click the big glass in the window and the water level climbs to the next line. The headline keeps score, such as 3 of 8 glasses, and the hint underneath counts down how many are left to go.
How to set up hydration reminders that fit your day
Everything lives in Settings, behind the gear:
- Under Your goal, set Glasses a day. The glass in the main window draws one line for each.
- Under Reminders, keep Remind me to drink switched on and edit the Remind me at list: change a time, add one for a late shift, or delete the ones that land in your lunch break.
- Leave Stop once I reach my goal on if you would rather not hear from the app after you are done for the day.
- Press Send next to Send a test reminder. If nothing pops up, check that Windows notifications and Do not disturb allow the app.
- Turn on Start with Windows, because reminders only arrive while the app is running.
A simple water intake tracker, counted in glasses
There is no ounce math and no bottle to calibrate. One click is one glass, and that is the whole log. If you click once too often, Take one back removes it.
Under the glass, This week shows your last seven days as a row of small glasses. Click any of them to look at that day, and click the glass there to add one you forgot. Reach your goal on consecutive days and the note reads, for example, 5-day streak · best 12; the headline changes to Well done once you are there.
How many glasses of water a day you should aim for depends on your body, your activity and the weather, so pick a target that matches the advice you follow. The app simply makes sure you keep the count you chose.
Water reminder app behavior when the window is closed
Closing the window does not stop anything. The app keeps running in the notification area and checks the clock, so the next reminder arrives on time. Right-click the tray icon for I Drank A Glass, Take One Back, Remind Me and Start With Windows checkboxes, Open and Exit, which lets you log a drink without bringing the window up at all.
