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Purpose-built reminder types
Vaccination, treatment, pregnancy check, calving, and custom reminder types match the recurring work farms actually track.
Reminders & Tasks
Scheduled farm work that doesn’t rely on someone remembering.
Boma turns vaccinations, treatments, pregnancy checks, and custom follow-ups into tracked reminders with due dates and status, so the farm knows what is due, what is overdue, and who it is assigned to.
Typed reminders
Vaccination, treatment, pregnancy check, calving, and custom types built in.
Status-tracked
Pending, in progress, snoozed, and completed states, not a flat checklist.
Assignable
Reminders can be pointed at a specific team member, not left ambiguous.
Reminders & Tasks
Task Board
Due, overdue, and completed — always visible
Reminders are organized by status and due date, with priority levels highlighting what needs attention first.
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What This Feature Does
In plain terms
Reminders and Tasks turns time-sensitive farm work into something the system tracks, instead of something a manager has to hold in their head. A reminder has a type — vaccination, treatment, pregnancy check, calving, or a custom category — a due date, a priority, and a status that moves from pending through in progress to completed, with a snooze option for work that needs to shift without being lost.
Reminders can be tied to a specific animal, connecting the follow-up work directly to the record it concerns, and can be assigned to a specific team member so it is clear whose job it is to act. An overdue reminder is not just a missed deadline sitting quietly in a list — it surfaces in dashboards and alerts so it gets noticed.
Because reminders live in the same system as everything else, completing one — like logging a vaccination — can connect directly to the health record it was tracking, keeping the "what was supposed to happen" and "what actually happened" in the same place.
Key Capabilities
What you actually get
Each capability below is available today inside Boma, not a roadmap promise. Together they form the working core of this feature.
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Due dates with priority levels
Every reminder carries a due date and a priority, so the farm can distinguish between urgent and routine follow-ups at a glance.
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Full status lifecycle
Reminders move through pending, in progress, snoozed, and completed states, giving a realistic picture of work in motion, not just a binary done or not-done.
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Animal-linked reminders
A reminder tied to a specific animal connects the scheduled action directly to that animal’s record, so context is never lost.
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Assignment to a specific person
Reminders can be assigned to a team member, removing the ambiguity of a shared task list nobody feels individually responsible for.
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Overdue visibility
Overdue reminders surface across dashboards and alerts, so a missed follow-up gets noticed instead of quietly aging in a list.
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Snooze without losing the task
A reminder that needs to shift can be snoozed to a new date rather than being deleted and recreated, preserving its history and context.
Why It Matters
The operational cost this feature actually removes
Livestock work has a rhythm of recurring obligations — vaccinations on a schedule, pregnancy checks at the right window, treatments that need a follow-up. When that rhythm lives only in a manager’s memory or a paper calendar on the wall, it eventually breaks: someone is out sick, the calendar gets left in the truck, or the farm simply gets busy and something slips.
Boma’s reminders exist to make follow-through a property of the system, not a property of any one person’s memory or discipline. A reminder assigned to a specific person with a clear due date is dramatically more likely to get done than a mental note or a line on a whiteboard, and when it does slip, it is visible instead of silent.
Fewer missed vaccinations and treatments
Scheduled work with visible due dates is far less likely to be forgotten than a mental note.
Clear ownership of follow-up work
Assigning a reminder to a specific person removes the ambiguity of a shared, unowned task list.
Overdue work gets noticed
A missed deadline surfaces in dashboards instead of aging quietly in a forgotten list.
Continuity when staff are unavailable
Scheduled reminders do not depend on one person being present to remember them.
Use Cases By Role
How each person on the farm actually uses this
Boma is built around real farm roles. Here is how this feature shows up differently depending on who is signed in.
Owner
Sees what is overdue across the whole farm
An owner can review overdue reminders across every category — vaccinations, treatments, pregnancy checks — without asking the manager for a status update.
Manager
Assigns and tracks a batch of vaccination reminders
A manager scheduling a vaccination round creates reminders for the relevant animals, assigns them to specific workers, and tracks completion as entries come in.
Worker
Works from a clear list of assigned tasks
A worker checks their assigned reminders for the day, completes each one from mobile, and the system reflects the update immediately for anyone else watching.
Vet
Sets a follow-up reminder after a visit
After treating an animal, a vet can create a follow-up reminder to check on the animal in a set number of days, ensuring the case does not quietly drop off.
Admin
Confirms reminders are actually being used
A platform admin supporting a new tenant can check whether reminders are being created and completed, an early signal of whether the farm is getting real value from the feature.
How It Works
Step by step, in practice
A reminder moves through a clear lifecycle from creation to completion.
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A reminder is created
A type, due date, priority, and optionally an animal and assignee are set, either manually or as part of a vaccination schedule.
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It appears where the assignee will see it
The assigned team member sees the reminder in their task list on web and mobile.
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Status updates as work progresses
The reminder moves to in progress, gets snoozed if needed, or is marked completed once the work is done.
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Overdue reminders surface automatically
If a due date passes without completion, the reminder is flagged as overdue across relevant dashboards.
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Completion connects back to the record
Completing a reminder tied to an animal keeps that follow-through visible in the animal’s own history.
Data & Control
Who can see it, who can change it, and who is accountable for it
Reminders are scoped to the farm that created them, following the same farm-level isolation as every other record type, so reminder data never crosses tenant boundaries.
Creating and assigning reminders generally follows the farm’s role permissions, while completing an assigned reminder is available to the person it was assigned to, keeping ownership clear without making the system unnecessarily restrictive for day-to-day use.
Farm-level isolation
Reminder data is scoped to the farm that created it, like every other record type.
Assignment-based ownership
A reminder’s assignee is explicit, making responsibility for follow-through unambiguous.
Status history preserved
Snoozing or completing a reminder does not erase its prior state, keeping a usable history.
Role-appropriate creation
Who can create and assign reminders follows the farm’s configured role permissions.
Business Outcomes
What changes operationally once this is in place
These are the practical shifts farms describe once the feature is part of daily use, not a marketing estimate.
Higher follow-through on scheduled work
Assigned reminders with due dates get completed more reliably than informal reminders.
Fewer silent misses
Overdue work is visible in dashboards instead of quietly falling through the cracks.
Clear individual accountability
Assigning a reminder to a specific person removes ambiguity about whose job it is.
Less time spent tracking status manually
Managers can see reminder status directly instead of following up individually to ask.
Questions
Common questions about this feature
Specific answers for teams evaluating whether this part of Boma fits how the farm actually runs.
Can reminders be tied to a vaccination schedule automatically?
Yes. Vaccination schedules generate related reminders so a recurring protocol turns into tracked follow-up work rather than something a manager has to remember to create manually each time.
What happens when a reminder’s due date passes without action?
The reminder is flagged as overdue and surfaces in relevant dashboards and alerts, rather than quietly remaining in a pending state unnoticed.
Can a reminder be reassigned to someone else?
Reminders can be updated, including their assignee, by users with the appropriate role, so work can be reassigned if someone’s availability changes.
Is there a difference between snoozing and completing a reminder?
Yes. Snoozing moves a reminder’s due date forward while preserving it as still outstanding, while completing marks the work as done. Snoozed reminders remain visible rather than disappearing.
Can workers see reminders that are not assigned to them?
Visibility follows the farm’s configuration and role permissions, but assignment makes it clear whose responsibility a given reminder is, regardless of broader visibility.
Related Features
Works alongside the rest of the platform
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