Or simply don’t know how to use it, as it isn’t the most intuitive feature. Namely, that’s the ability to create and set a reminder or Calendar event directly from an Android notification.

Even when developers—including Google—play by the rules of the system, it's easy to create new notification categories to get around the ones a user has silenced.

It’s not clear why the ability to set reminders from select app notifications is appearing on popular third-party messaging applications and not Google’s own Messages.