Creating a Medication

The Add Medication page allows you to easily create a new medication with advanced schedules, custom icons and colours, and custom notifications to easily set Capsule up to work as you need.

The only information you have to provide to create a medication is a name. Everything else is fully optional depending on the medication you're taking.

By default, each medication is assigned a random colour, but if you've unlocked the Pro subscription, you can pick which colour to use as well as pick a different icon for your medication.

Scheduling Your Medications

Capsule has an advanced scheduling system to allow you to easily and accuractly set when you need to take each of your medications.

This is enabled through a combination of two features, Due Dates and Minimum Dose Intervals. Due Dates let you specifiy when you should take your medication, while Minimum Dose Intervals let you set the minimum time before you're allowed to take the medication again. Attempting to retake a medication within this time will give you a warning asking if you're sure you want to take it.

Emabling Has Due Date gives you three options for when the medication is due:

• once
• at an interval
• on a schedule

Medication Due Once

A medication set to be due once will let you set a single time for it to become due, with no options for repeating.

Medication Due at an Interval

To repeat a medication on a regular schedule, i.e. every 6 hours, set the medication to be due at an interval.

Start by setting when the next dose is due and then set the appropriate repeat frequency to minutely, hourly, daily or weekly, and then select a multiple of that frequency—every 45 minutes, 6 hours, 3 days etc. Holding down the or allows you to quickly make larger adjustments.

By default, your next dose will repeat based on the Scheduled Date of the medication, but if preferred you can change that to repeat from the time you had taken the last dose. For example, if you had a medication scheduled for every hour from 10:00 but didn't take it till 10:15, repeating from the scheduled date would set the next dose as 11:00, but repeating from taken would set the next dose for 11:15.

You can then set how long you would like this to repeat for, whether indefinitely, until a specific date, or until you've taken a specific number of doses.

Medication Due on a Schedule

Schedules provide the most advanced customisation options for taking your medications. Each row of a schedule is a time the medication is due, and you can select which days you would like it due on. If you need to take it multiple times a day, or at different times on different days of the week, just add more rows and you can create the exact schedule you need.

You can then set how long you would like this to repeat for, whether indefinitely, until a specific date, or until you've taken a specific number of doses.

Minimum Dose Intervals

Setting a Minimum Dose Interval lets you limit how frequently you can take any given medication. If, after taking a medication, you attempt to take it again in less time than the Minimum Dose Interval, you will be given a warning before you can make it as taken.

Custom Notifications

As well as being able to set notifications globally, Pro users are able to set notifications per medication. Enabling custom notifications will override any global settings for the medication.

You can opt to be notified when a medication becomes due and when it becomes available, based on the repeat and minimum interval settings of each medication.

If a medication becomes overdue, you can opt to enable "Repeat Notifications", where you will get regular notifications if a medication remains overdue.

Time Sensitive Notifications are given a higher priority and can be combined with Focus Modes within iOS to further control how you receive notifications.

If you want to avoid anyone seeing what medications you're taking by reading the name in the notification, you can disable Show Notification Name. Doing so changes the notification to just say "Medication Due" without specifying the name.

Please note that you can still prevent Capsule from sending you notifications using various native iOS features including Focus Modes and Do Not Disturb settings, or by disabling Capsule's notification permissions within Apple's Settings app.

Archiving and Deleting

If you no longer need to take a medication, you're able to either archive it or delete it permanently. Archived medications are removed from the list of medications, but the history will be retained, and it can be restored from settings if you ever need it again. Deleting a medication will permanently remove it, as well as all of its history. This cannot be undone.