Reminders

A reminder is a time of day on a task's date, for when the time matters: a call that has to happen in the afternoon, or a free cancellation that ends at 12:59.

A time on the task's date

A reminder is a time such as 15:00, in your time zone, on whatever day the task is scheduled for. Move the task to Friday and the reminder moves with it.

A task needs a date before it can take a reminder. If a task with a reminder goes back to the Inbox, the reminder stays but doesn't go off until the task has a date again. Move a task to a day whose time has already passed, and that reminder doesn't go off.

A reminder doesn't turn the date into an appointment. The task is still something you mean to do that day, as Scheduling describes.

When the time comes

Taskaid tells the assistants watching for reminders. What happens next is up to the assistant and what you've asked it to do: it can let you know, or pick up the next step from the task's note.

Have an assistant watch

One standing request covers every reminder. An assistant that can watch for events sets it up once; for ChatGPT, see Reminders in ChatGPT.

Write what you'll need in the task's note, such as who to call or what to bring. That's what the assistant reads when the reminder comes in.

From an assistant

Through the MCP server, a reminder is one field on save_task:

• reminder: "15:00" sets it, as HH:MM in 24-hour time, on the task's when date.
• reminder: null removes it.

A reminder is refused if the task has no date, if its time has already passed, or if your time zone isn't known yet. At that time Taskaid sends the task.reminded event to subscribed assistants.

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Next: Scheduling for how the date behaves, or the Tools reference for every field as served.