Set reminders for key contract dates

Never miss a renewal window or payment deadline. GitLaw lets you attach reminders directly to documents and contacts, sends you an email when the date arrives, and groups everything by urgency so you can see what needs attention at a glance.

Create a reminder manually

1. Open the Reminders area from the main navigation.
2. Click "New reminder" and give it a name (for example, "Acme MSA renewal").
3. Set the due date - the date you want to be reminded.
4. Optionally link the reminder to one or more documents or contacts so it appears on their detail views.
5. Choose a recurrence if the deadline repeats - options include daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, or a custom interval.
6. Add a note (optional) for any context you want included in the reminder email.
7. Save. GitLaw sends you an email when the due date is reached.

How reminders are organised

Reminders are grouped into four buckets:

Completed reminders are kept separately and do not appear in the urgency groups unless you choose to view them.

Recurring reminders

When you mark a recurring reminder complete, GitLaw automatically schedules the next occurrence - you do not need to recreate it. Recurrence ends either on an end date you specify or after a maximum number of occurrences. If you set neither, the reminder repeats indefinitely.

AI-suggested reminders from uploaded contracts

When you import a Word or PDF contract, GitLaw extracts key dates - expiry, renewal, and execution dates - and can create reminders from them automatically. Automatically created reminders are tagged inferred so you can distinguish them from reminders you added yourself. To confirm an inferred reminder, open it and save any edit (or use the explicit confirm action); the inferred tag is removed and the reminder is treated as fully user-owned from that point.

Reminders on a contact

If a reminder is linked to a document, and that document is associated with a contact, the reminder also appears on the Notifications tab of the contact's detail view. This gives you a single place to see every upcoming deadline related to a counterparty.

Mark a reminder complete

Open the reminder and click Mark as complete. For recurring reminders, this schedules the next occurrence. For one-off reminders, it moves the item to your completed list.

Edit or delete a reminder

Open any reminder to change its name, due date, note, linked documents, linked contacts, or recurrence. To remove it entirely, choose Delete from the reminder detail.