When you are focused on work, a small notification can be easy to overlook. GoodTask’s Full-Screen Urgent Alerts give selected tasks a more prominent visual reminder on your Mac.
Use them for moments that deserve an interruption, such as leaving for an appointment or switching to a scheduled task. Keep ordinary reminders quieter so the important ones remain distinctive.
Watch: Set up full-screen urgent alerts
Turn on full-screen urgent alerts
- Open GoodTask on your Mac.
- Go to Settings → Notifications.
- Enable Full-Screen Urgent Alerts.
- Choose which task priorities should use urgent alerts.
- Create a test task with a matching priority and an alert a few minutes ahead.
GoodTask must be running for full-screen urgent alerts to appear. This feature is not a promise that an alert will wake a sleeping Mac or appear while the app is closed.
Decide which tasks deserve an interruption
Choose a priority level for the tasks where timing matters most. Then reserve that priority for those tasks rather than applying it to everything.
For example, you might make “Leave for the appointment” urgent while keeping “Organize reference notes” as an ordinary reminder. The aim is to make the signal more useful, not make every task louder.
Act directly from the alert
When an urgent alert appears, you can snooze it, complete the task, or open the task in GoodTask.
If you want a manually snoozed alert to become urgent regardless of the task’s priority, enable Urgent Snooze. Review this setting separately from your priority choices so its behavior matches what you expect.
Add spoken titles if they help
A visual alert and a spoken task title can serve different purposes. GoodTask also lets you choose notification sounds and enable Read Title under Settings → Notifications → Sound Settings.
See Voice Notifications for voice, speaking-rate, and playback options. Custom audio in system notifications is separate from the full-screen feature and has its own setup.
Test your own setup
Before relying on urgent alerts, try a test reminder while using your normal Mac setup. Keep GoodTask running and check that the task’s priority matches the urgent-alert settings.