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One option for staying on schedule with medications is to use a pill organizer.

Pill organizers, also known as pill boxes or pill cases, are medication storage containers with one or more individual compartments designed to hold prescription and nonprescription medications that are in pill or capsule form.

These types of organizers are available in weekly and monthly formats, and some include separate containers for morning, afternoon and evening doses. Setting alarms on your watch, smartphone, or an app designed for medication reminders is an additional step you can take to help you stay on schedule when utilizing a pill box.

Labeling the alarms you set with the specific activity to be performed may be helpful when setting multiple alarms for multiple daily doses.

If a manual pill organizer isn't getting the job done, smart medication management devices which help to store, organize and track medication schedules are another way to help you stay adherent with your medication routine.

These devices can help sort pills, dispense doses on the schedule you set, and some devices feature in-app reminders when it's time to take your medications.

Smart electronic pill dispensers can even help you manage additional medications stored outside the device, such as those that must be refrigerated, by adding the schedule for those doses into a connected app. Set the medication schedule, load the pills into their containers, and get alerts and reminders when it's dose time.

These machines can help track, sort, and dispense both regularly scheduled medications and those taken as-needed.