Reminder

Set reminders using natural language. Automatically creates one-time cron jobs and logs to markdown.

Remind Me

Natural language reminders that fire automatically. Uses cron for scheduling, markdown for logging.

Usage

One-Time Reminders

Just ask naturally:

• "Remind me to pay for Gumroad later today"
• "Remind me to call mom tomorrow at 3pm"
• "Remind me in 2 hours to check the oven"
• "Remind me next Monday at 9am about the meeting"

Recurring Reminders

For repeating reminders:

• "Remind me every hour to stretch"
• "Remind me every day at 9am to check email"
• "Remind me every Monday at 2pm about the meeting"
• "Remind me weekly to submit timesheet"

How It Works

1. Parse the time from your message
2. Create a one-time cron job with --at
3. Log to $REMINDERS_FILE (default: ~/reminders.md) for history
4. At the scheduled time, you get a message

Time Parsing

One-Time Reminders

Relative:

• "in 5 minutes" / "in 2 hours" / "in 3 days"
• "later today" → 17:00 today
• "this afternoon" → 17:00 today
• "tonight" → 20:00 today

Absolute:

• "tomorrow" → tomorrow 9am
• "tomorrow at 3pm" → tomorrow 15:00
• "next Monday" → next Monday 9am
• "next Monday at 2pm" → next Monday 14:00

Dates:

• "January 15" → Jan 15 at 9am
• "Jan 15 at 3pm" → Jan 15 at 15:00
• "2026-01-15" → Jan 15 at 9am
• "2026-01-15 14:30" → Jan 15 at 14:30

Recurring Reminders

Intervals:

• "every 30 minutes"
• "every 2 hours"

Daily:

• "daily at 9am"
• "every day at 3pm"

Weekly:

• "weekly" → every Monday at 9am
• "every Monday at 2pm"
• "every Friday at 5pm"

Reminder Log

All reminders are logged to $REMINDERS_FILE (default: ~/reminders.md):

- [scheduled] 2026-01-06 17:00 | Pay for Gumroad (id: abc123)
- [recurring] every 2h | Stand up and stretch (id: def456)
- [recurring] cron: 0 9 * * 1 | Weekly meeting (id: ghi789)

Status:

• [scheduled] — one-time reminder waiting to fire
• [recurring] — repeating reminder (active)
• [sent] — one-time reminder already delivered

Setup

During installation, the bot will auto-detect what it can and ask for the rest:

Variable	Auto-detected?	Description
TIMEZONE	❌ must ask	Affects cron scheduling — cannot be guessed reliably
TO	❌ must ask	Recipient ID — cannot be guessed
CHANNEL	✅ default telegram	Ask only if user wants a different channel
REMINDERS_FILE	✅ default ~/reminders.md	Ask only if user wants a custom path

Bot setup flow:

1. Ask: "What is your timezone?" (e.g. Europe/Kyiv — see tz database)
2. Ask: "What is your recipient ID?" (e.g. Telegram chat ID — user can get it via @userinfobot)
3. Write answers into config.env in the skill directory
4. Scripts source config.env automatically on every run

config.env (generated during setup):

TIMEZONE="Europe/Kyiv"
TO="463113011"
CHANNEL="telegram"
REMINDERS_FILE="/home/clawd/reminders.md"

Manual Commands

# List pending reminders
cron list

# View reminder log
cat ~/reminders.md

# Remove a scheduled reminder
cron rm <job-id>

Agent Implementation

Scripts load config.env automatically — no flags needed at runtime.

One-Time Reminders

When the user says "remind me to X at Y":

bash "$SKILL_DIR/create-reminder.sh" "X" "Y"

Recurring Reminders

When the user says "remind me every X to Y":

bash "$SKILL_DIR/create-recurring.sh" "Y" "every X"

Both scripts automatically:

1. Source config.env from the skill directory
2. Parse the time/schedule (always outputs ISO 8601 timestamp for --at)
3. Call openclaw cron add with the parsed schedule
4. Log to $REMINDERS_FILE
5. Return confirmation with job ID