The never forget app — Ogeka

The story behind the Ogeka app

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Photo by Shamin Haky on Unsplash

I didn’t mean to build this app.

It started with something small.
Annoyingly small.

A task I had to do every four hours.

Not once. Not “tick it off and forget it.”
Every. Four. Hours.

At first, I did what anyone would do.

I tried setting a reminder in Outlook.
It didn’t quite work the way I needed.

So I moved to a to-do list app.
That worked… for a bit.

At least until the evening that is.

There I was, trying to switch off after work,
and my phone kept reminding me to do something I had no interest in doing at that time.

Every four hours.
All night.

So what do you do? You mark it as done.

Not because it’s done…but because you just want the noise to stop.

And just like that, the system breaks.

That’s when I thought there must be a better way.

This wasn’t a “task” problem. It was a cycle problem.

Some things aren’t meant to be completed once.

They’re meant to be done again.
And again.
And again.

Daily checks.
Weekly reviews.
Monthly routines.

The quiet, repetitive work that keeps everything running.

If you work in Tech Support, DevOps, or Sys Admin,
you already know exactly what I’m talking about.

  • Checking backups.
  • Reviewing Jira tickets.
  • Following up on escalations.
  • Keeping an eye on things that don’t shout… until they break.

These aren’t tasks you finish.
They’re tasks you maintain.

So I built something for that.

Ogeka — Pronounced OH-GEH-KA.

Ogeka doesn’t care about one-off tasks.

It’s built for the things that keep coming back.

You set a cycle (every few hours, daily, weekly, whatever makes sense), and it keeps track of when it’s due again. Not just with a reminder, but with awareness of your actual working time.

Because here’s the thing that always bothered me:

Why should a task keep counting down when I’m not even working?

With Ogeka, it doesn’t.

If your day ends, the countdown pauses.
When you’re back, it picks up again.

No noise.
No fake urgency.
No midnight reminders for things that can wait.

It’s minimal.

No dashboards shouting at you.
No complicated workflows.

Just a quiet system running in the background, keeping track of the things that are easy to forget… until they become a problem.

I use it now to manage how I follow up on Jira tickets.

Some I check every few days.
Some weekly.
Some less often.

And for the first time, I’m not relying on memory alone,
or fighting with tools that were never built for this kind of work.

I didn’t build Ogeka to replace your to-do list. You’ll still need that.

I built it for everything your to-do list quietly fails at.

If you’ve ever marked something as “done” just to stop the reminders…
you’ll understand why this exists.

You can try it here:
👉 https://ogekahub.mikeysan.co.uk

If it helps you even a little, that’s enough.