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I know everyone is anti-Microsoft here, but if you’re on Windows, Outlook was designed to do exact that. You can put reminders on a calendar. Or you can set tasks with reminder dates. Or you can flag an email with a follow up reminder.
I'm in a similar spot. For me MacroDroid app on my phone is key.
Someone helped me write an alarm macro that I cancel by scanning an NFC tag I have in my medication case.
I also have an NFC tag on my refrigerator that I have to scan to stop my wake up alarm.
I can share the macro if you are interested
Might I suggest a calender app?
For me, the calendar app isn't good enough. It is too easy to hide or miss or ignore the notification, no matter what settings I adjust (which dont typically give much flexibility)
For my sleep schedule it helped a ton to put an online restriction into my router - my mobile devices and computer can't connect to the internet between 2300 through 0500.
windows has a built in task scheduler. it is like cron on linux, but with a complicated GUI instead. you can use it to start batch scrips to remind you. end them with pause to keep the window open
Do something that makes your brain tired an hour before needing to sleep, I read the less light stuff and it works, theres always more stuff on the computer, outside of forcing it turn off and the inconvienence of turning it back on idk, most alerts telling me to sleep or stop make me more awake and into what im doing personally lol, a straight up crash or shutdown puts me to sleep, if you have a set sleep time you can always ask ai to make you a .bat file to auto shutoff your pc at that time, or have one that auto shutsoff in x minutes and set x to whatever you feel like that day.
I've found playing solitaire on my phone is just the right amount of stimulation to keep me engaged, but repetitive enough to put me to sleep after maybe 2 or 3 deals, at most. Often it's only half way through a single hand.
A task manager, that creates new tasks on a schedule and reminds you of overdue tasks.
You will build up behavior of checking off task items when you do the task, and this will help you build structure and executive function.
Most of them have this functionality, so if you have a task manager you use at work, just set it up for your home. (jira, process st, etc)
Google calendar should be able to alert if you give it permissions. Todoist is what I use on my phone for free and it might have a desktop or web client