Follow-up nudges
Automatic reminders that keep tasks from slipping — when work stalls or a due date is near, sprintrr nudges the right person.
Tasks slip through the cracks when nobody's watching them. Follow-up nudges are sprintrr's safety net: a lightweight, automatic reminder that surfaces the tasks most likely to be forgotten — so you don't have to chase them manually.
Nudges are on by default and require no setup.
The two kinds of nudge
- Stalled task nudges — fire when a task has sat In Progress for more than 5 days with no status change. The signal: work that was started and then quietly went quiet.
- Due-date nudges — fire when a task is due within the next 24 hours and isn't done yet. The signal: a deadline about to be missed.
Who gets nudged
A nudge goes to the people actually responsible for the task:
- the task's assignees, if it has any;
- otherwise the project owner, so an unassigned task still gets seen.
Each person's own notification preferences are respected independently — if a teammate has turned a nudge type off, they won't get it even if you have it on.
Where nudges show up
Nudges arrive in-app, in your notifications. They're not emailed or sent to Slack in this version. Each nudge links straight to the task so you can act on it in one click.
They won't spam you
sprintrr checks for nudge-worthy tasks regularly, but each task is rate-limited:
- a stalled task won't be nudged again for 3 days;
- a due-soon task won't be nudged again for 24 hours.
So a single overdue task results in an occasional reminder, not a stream of them.
Turning nudges off
Both nudge types are controlled in Settings → Notifications:
- Stalled task nudges — Get nudged when one of your tasks has sat In Progress for over 5 days with no activity.
- Due-date nudges — Get nudged when one of your tasks is due within the next 24 hours and isn't done.
Toggle either off any time. The change applies only to your account.