The moment it happens
Text your bot a reminder
Tell the bot what to remind you about and when, and it messages you at that time.
- Runs
- The moment it happens
- Apps
- Telegram
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- bot token
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: when I message my Telegram bot something like 'remind me to call Sam at 3pm', send me that reminder at 3pm.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Someone remembers a task at the worst moment, such as on a train, in a meeting or half asleep, and has nowhere to put it. Opening a to-do app, creating an entry, choosing a date and setting an alert takes more steps than the thought is worth, so the task is forgotten. The appointment, the call or the payment slips by.
You text your Telegram bot something like call the dentist tomorrow at 9, and ClickRuntime uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI to understand the task and the time, stores it and checks every five minutes for reminders that are due. When the time comes, the bot messages you with the task. No forms and no calendar are involved.
It suits people who think in sentences, not in apps, and anyone who forgets things between thinking them and doing them.
What you get out of it
Capturing a task takes seconds
Typing a natural sentence is faster than any reminder app. The thought is saved before you lose it, and you can carry on with what you were doing. A forgotten idea is a cost, and cutting the capture step to a single message removes most of it.
Natural language works
Phrases like next Friday at noon or in two hours are understood. You do not learn a syntax or pick dates from a calendar widget. Plain sentences also work for people who struggle with the date pickers and menus of regular apps.
Reminders arrive in a chat you check
A Telegram message is noticed more often than an app notification buried among many. Tasks get done because the reminder is seen at the right moment. Messages tend to be read quickly, and a reminder you read is a reminder you act on.
Five-minute checks keep timing close
Due reminders are sent within about five minutes of the time you chose. For most everyday tasks, that is precise enough and needs no extra effort. Reminders do not have to be exact to the minute to be useful for calls, bills and appointments.
Nothing needs managing afterward
Once a reminder is sent, it is done. There are no lists to clean up, which suits people who dislike maintaining to-do apps. There is no backlog of overdue items sitting on a list making you feel guilty.
How it works
What happens, step by step
When you text your Telegram bot something like "call Sam at 3pm", ClickRuntime picks it up straight away.
AI works out what to remind you about and when, and the bot confirms it.
Every 5 minutes, ClickRuntime checks for reminders that are due.
When the time comes, the bot sends you the reminder.
Before it runs live
- Connect Telegram
- Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Telegram steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from clickruntime import on_event, on_trigger, http, credentials, ai, state
def tg(method, **params):
r = http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{credentials.secret('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN')}/{method}", json=params)
r.raise_for_status()
return r.json()["result"]
@on_event
def handle(event):
msg = (event.json or {}).get("message") or {}
if not msg.get("text"):
return {"saved": False}
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
r = ai.generate(f"Now is {now}. Extract the reminder from: {msg['text']}",
json_schema={"type": "object", "properties": {"what": {"type": "string"}, "at_utc": {"type": "string"}}},
max_output_tokens=60).json
reminders = state.get("reminders") or []
state.set("reminders", reminders + [{"chat": msg["chat"]["id"], **r}])
tg("sendMessage", chat_id=msg["chat"]["id"], text=f"OK, I'll remind you: {r['what']} at {r['at_utc'][11:16]} UTC")
return r
@on_trigger
def send_due(event):
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
reminders = state.get("reminders") or []
due = [r for r in reminders if r["at_utc"] <= now]
for r in due:
tg("sendMessage", chat_id=r["chat"], text=f"Reminder: {r['what']}")
state.set("reminders", [r for r in reminders if r not in due])
return {"sent": len(due)}FAQ
Common questions
What if the bot misreads the time?
Can I set repeating reminders?
How precise are the reminder times?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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