Reminders & tasks

Your bot can remember to do things on its own — without you having to come back and re-ask. Two capabilities cover this: signals, which wake the bot on a schedule, and the task board, which tracks work items and follow-ups. You drive both in plain language; the bot translates what you say into the right command.

Reminders that fire on a schedule (signals)

A signal is a scheduled trigger the bot sets on itself. When it fires, the bot wakes up in this same chat with the instruction you gave it, and acts. You never touch a setting screen — you just say what you want.

Ask in plain language:

• "Every morning at 9, check my email and summarise anything important." → a daily signal that fires at 9am.
• "Remind me on the 1st of every month to send the invoice." → a monthly signal on the 1st.
• "Check back on this in 30 minutes." → a one-off, fires once, then clears itself.
• "At 3pm tomorrow, ping me about the deadline." → a one-shot at a specific time.

A few things worth knowing:

• Recurring vs one-off. "Every day", "every 30 minutes", "on the 1st" are recurring — they keep firing until you ask the bot to stop them. "Tomorrow at 3pm", "in two hours" run once and then turn themselves off.
• By default the reminder comes back to this chat. That's almost always what you want — the bot has the context of the conversation you're in.
• Be clear about the clock. If you mean a specific timezone, say so ("9am Sweden time") — otherwise the bot uses the server's clock, which may not be your local time.
• Reminders survive restarts. A scheduled signal is stored, so it still fires even if the server bounces in between.

Tracking tasks and follow-ups (the task board)

For work that's bigger than a single reminder, the bot keeps a task board — a list of items with a status and a priority. Use it when you want a durable record of what's outstanding, not just a nudge at a time.

Talk to it naturally:

• "Add a task: follow up with the supplier about the late shipment, high priority."
• "What's on my task list?" → the bot lists open tasks, newest or highest-priority first.
• "Mark the supplier task done." → the bot closes it out with a short summary of what happened.
• "Show me anything still open from last week."

Tasks carry a priority (high / medium / low) so the bot knows what to work top-down, and each completed task records a short summary so there's a trail of what was done. You can reopen a task if something comes back, add a comment, or hand it to another bot to pick up.

The difference in one line: a signal wakes the bot at a time; the task board is the running list of what still needs doing.

Going deeper

For a hands-on walk through a full week — reminders, signals, and running work through the task board — follow Automate your week. Both build on how the bot's conversation works under the hood — see Sessions for the bigger picture.