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Tutorial — Combine pills into a group

If you take several pills at the same time of day, bundle them into a group. You get one reminder instead of many, and one tap logs them all.

The example

Let's say you take these at 8 AM every morning:

Without a group, you'd get five separate reminders at 8 AM. With a group, you get one.

Step 1 — Add each medication individually

Add each of the five medications using the regular add flow. Set each one's schedule to Fixed times with a time of 8:00 AM. Don't worry about reminder levels on the individual medications — the group will handle reminders instead.

Step 2 — Create the group

  1. Open Settings > Medication groups.
  2. Tap Add group.
  3. Pick an emoji — 🌅 for morning works well.
  4. Name the group — Morning stack.
  5. Set the Scheduled time to 8:00 AM.
  6. Save.

Step 3 — Add medications to the group

For each medication:

  1. Tap the medication on the Meds tab.
  2. Scroll to Groups.
  3. Tap Morning stack to tick it.
  4. Tap Save.

Or, the shortcut: when you're adding a new medication, you can pick the group right on the Add form — no need to go back later.

Step 4 — Check the Today view

Tomorrow morning you'll see a single card:

🌅 Morning stack
5 meds at 8:00 AM
[ All taken ] [ Later ]

Tap All taken once you've swallowed them all, and every medication is logged with one tap. If you want to see the list, tap the card to expand it — you'll see each medication with its own Taken button in case you skipped one.

Mixing medications in different groups

A single medication can be in multiple groups. For example, your statin could be in the "Morning stack" group and a "Weekly pill sort" group if you use a weekly organiser too.

Removing a medication from a group

Edit the medication, open the Groups section, untick the group, and save. The medication stays in your list — it just isn't bundled any more.

Deleting the group entirely

Open Settings > Medication groups, tap the group, and tap Delete. All the medications stay; they just revert to their individual schedules.