Meeting reminder guide
Persistent Alarms vs Passive Notifications
Notifications communicate. Alarms request action. The right choice depends on the cost of missing the event and the amount of interruption you can tolerate.
What a passive notification does well
A notification is lightweight, familiar, and appropriate for most routine events. It can provide awareness without forcing you to stop. That makes it a good default but a weak guarantee of action.
What persistence changes
A persistent alarm remains active until it receives a response. In Meeting Guardian, that response can be join, snooze, dismiss, or complete. The behavior runs in an open browser tab and does not override operating-system controls.
Choose by consequence, not anxiety
Use persistent alarms where lateness has a real cost: client calls, interviews, presentations, or handoffs. Standard notifications may remain sufficient for flexible or optional events. A selective system is more trustworthy than one that treats everything as urgent.
Questions
- Is a persistent alarm always better?
- No. Strong interruptions are most useful for high-consequence meetings and can become noise when applied to every event.
- Does Meeting Guardian override silent mode?
- No. It does not override browser or operating-system notification controls.
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