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reminder

Natural-language reminder secretary: capture events into git-synced

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Reminder (secretary)

A lightweight personal secretary for OpenClaw:

  • Tell it events in natural language (Chinese/English).
  • It extracts structured info and stores it in your workspace (so Git/claw-roam can sync across devices).
  • It schedules Telegram reminders using OpenClaw cron.

What it does

  • Capture events from chat (meetings / birthdays / deadlines)
  • Store events in a workspace data file (easy to back up & sync via Git/claw-roam)
  • Schedule Telegram reminders using OpenClaw cron
  • Answer queries like “我最近有什么安排/计划?”

Data (separated from skill)

This skill contains no personal event data.

User data lives in the workspace at:

  • Events file: ~/.openclaw/workspace/reminders/events.yml

Template (shipped with the skill):

  • skills/reminder/assets/events.template.yml

Config (env)

  • REMINDER_TZ (default: Asia/Shanghai)
  • REMINDER_OFFSETS_MINUTES (default: 1440,60,10 for 24h/1h/10m)

Capture behavior

When user says something like:

  • “后天上午10点有个会”
  • “下个月2号我妈生日”
  • “周五下午三点交报告”

Do:

  1. Parse the event:
    • title
    • start datetime (Shanghai)
    • notes (optional)
    • reminders offsets (default 24h/1h/10m)
    • repeat (optional: yearly/monthly/weekly)
  2. If key info is ambiguous (e.g. ‘后天’ date, ‘下个月’ which month, lunar birthday conversion, time missing), ask only the minimal clarifying question(s).
  3. Write/update the event in reminders/events.yml.
  4. Create cron jobs for each reminder time (delivery to current Telegram).

Reply style

  • After scheduling: reply briefly with the resolved datetime + confirmation.
  • For cancellations/changes: confirm what was changed and whether cron jobs were removed/replaced.

Queries

If user asks:

  • “我最近有什么安排?”
  • “下周有什么?”

Then read reminders/events.yml, compute upcoming items (Shanghai time), and summarize.

Notes / safety

  • Never commit machine-specific secrets (keep them in LOCAL_CONFIG.md, already gitignored).
  • For lunar birthdays: store the canonical lunar date + the computed solar date for the target year; ask how to handle leap months when needed.