Never miss a date

A records app only earns its keep if it tells you about a deadline before it passes, not after. HorseBook watches the dates on your horses' records and rolls everything that's coming due into one plain summary — the morning reminder — so you're not keeping a mental calendar of eight horses' Coggins and shots.

Where the dates come from

You mostly don't set reminders by hand. They fall out of the records you're already keeping:

• Coggins tests get a one-year expiration automatically when you log or scan one. You can override it.
• Health certificates (CVIs) get their short window (about 30 days) automatically.
• Vaccines and other medical records remind you off the next-due date you (or a scan) put on them.
• Documents with an expiration — insurance, registration, brand inspection — count down too.
• Care plans (below) put recurring barn chores on a schedule.
• Breeding adds its own: pregnancy-check windows and foaling windows show up as they approach.

Horses you've marked deceased drop off the reminders entirely — no more nags for a horse that's passed.

The morning reminder

Once a day, HorseBook sends one summary of what's due — an email, and on iPhone a notification — and nothing at all on the days there's nothing to do. No stream of separate alerts, no badge you learn to ignore. Just: here's what's coming, dealt with in one look.

You'll see it in your inbox, and iPhone users can get it as a local notification on the phone too. It reads like a person wrote it — "Biscuit's Coggins expires in 12 days; Rio is due for a farrier trim Thursday."

Care plans: schedule the whole group at once

The farrier comes on one day and trims eight horses — so scheduling that eight separate times is silly. Care plans put a group of horses on one recurring cadence:

1. 1

   Open Care and start a plan. Pick the kind — farrier, deworming, dental, or other — and how often it repeats (anywhere from weekly to a couple of years out).

2. 2
   Add the horses that ride on that schedule.
3. 3

   When the visit happens, hit Mark done once. HorseBook logs a record for every horse on the plan and rolls the whole schedule forward to the next date — one action, not eight.

You set a lead time so the reminder lands a few days ahead, while there's still time to call. Care plans are included on every plan — they aren't a paid extra.

The calendar and the per-horse view

Everything due also lives on the calendar, where you can add one-off appointments — a vet visit, a show, a lesson — right alongside the auto-generated reminders. And each horse has its own Reminders tab if you'd rather see just that one animal's list.