# Beeminder API: Reminders settings

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reminders-settings/293>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [December 3, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reminders-settings/293 "2014-12-03T22:33:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reminders-settings/293/1 "2014-12-03T22:33:47Z")

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Is there API access to any of the reminders tab settings?  
I couldn’t find anything in the API Documentation

I was trying to see if I could implement my email reminder safe days limit idea using API calls.

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reminders-settings/293/2 "2014-12-03T23:05:23Z")

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Sadly no, but stay tuned because we’re revamping reminders. Actually can you point to or summarize your email reminder safe days limit idea here, so we can hopefully make the thing we’re working on incorporate it?

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**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reminders-settings/293/3 "2014-12-04T07:26:12Z")

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**Summary:**  
A per-goal option that only sends reminders if a goal has less than n safe days.  
Where n is a user chosen integer.

**Link to discussion:**

> [@Feature request: Email reminders - Safe day limit](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-email-reminders-safe-day-limit/277):
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> I would like to be able to set a per-goal option that only sends me reminders if a goal has less than n safe days. Some goals that are easy to do I only need to know if I need to do it tomorrow, so 1 day would be enough, others need more scheduling so 7 days would be good. Currently I get emails every day for all of them which just leads to ignoring Beeminder reminders completely, or I turn off the emails which means I don’t get enough warning for the schedule goals. (Clicking ‘Wrong Lane and…

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2014, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reminders-settings/293/4 "2014-12-07T07:43:48Z")

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Thanks @insti! I’ll reply in the other thread shortly with latest ideas, and we’ll also think about how hard it will be to expose reminder settings in the API, though first I think we’ll see if it feels moot after better reminder settings.

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**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reminders-settings/293/5 "2019-03-27T13:39:43Z")

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By the power of Grayskull From the dawn of time I resurrect this olde thread!

I, too, would really like an API for changing reminders. With that I could build a snooze functionality. This would bring me one step closer to the Cry Uncle! button.