General Reminders give you the ability to create a group of event reminders associated with a specific date. Outlook creates pop up reminders but you may also want additional events to your calendar so you can see them when you view your calendar. The General Reminders events can be set before “prior” or after “post” any date and can be grouped with other reminder events so that if your trigger date (for example, day of trial or day of deposition) changes, you only have to update the reminder group’s “trigger” date and all of the reminders will also update to your new date.

In this example we have reminders on Calendar for a Deposition

General Reminders has a few pre-built triggers like , 1 day, 1 week, 1month reminders and then it has groups that are built to be used in a pseudo custom fashion. There are 3 sets. Custom Reminders, Customer Reminders Past & Prior, Abbreviated Reminders. They all function similarly but they have slightly different default language.

Custom Reminder triggers produce an event for every day 1 to 31 days past and prior, every 2 weeks up to 4 months, every month up to a year and a 2 year reminder. Using our Excluded Events feature, you can create your custom group of events by excluding those you don't want leaving you with the exact group of deadlines you wish to create in a reminder group. For example. Excluding all events except 3 days before, 9 days before, 27 days before would produce only those 3 reminders. For more on excluded events see the Exclude Events section of the user guide. 

You can manually change the text in the Event Titles or you can apply text globally to your reminders using the custom text fields, Location, Subject, Description.

To add the General Reminders rule set click on the Subscription button in the Manage Section of the Sidebar Menu

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Next select Other from the State Selection Dropdown Menu and then using the center scroll bar, scroll down to the bottom of the available rule sets. You will see General Reminders at the bottom of this section.

Note: General Reminders includes the 2 Triggers that are in General Reminders II, but if you only need to create single Events either as All Day Events or Events with Time, you can just use the General Reminders II rule set. It is only $12.00 per year.

Using General Reminders to create a group of events prior to a Deposition Date.

We have a Deposition on Calendar for Thursday Oct 13th. We want to create reminder events for this deposition on our Calendar.

Begin by going to the Create Events Page and selecting my Case.

Change the Jurisdiction to General Reminders

In this example we are using a General Reminders Trigger for 90,60,45,30,14,7,3,1 Reminders. DocketCalendar will calculate each event and insert the appropriate Reminder length in the Event Title. IE 90 Day Reminder:

By combining the Case Name, Subject Field and the Event Title, your Reminder Event will read "Happy V Lucky (Bozo Depo) 90 Day Reminder:

You can use a Category or Event Color to make your reminders stand out on your Calendar