Guides on MCP, natural language reminders, recurring schedules, and building reminders into your terminal and AI workflow.
A step-by-step guide to connecting a reminders MCP server to Claude Desktop so you can say "remind me tomorrow at 9am" and have it actually happen.
MCP is the open standard that lets Claude and other AI assistants call real tools instead of just talking. Here's what it actually is, in plain terms.
Todoist, TickTick, Apple Reminders, and a growing set of terminal- and AI-native tools — compared on what actually matters if you live in a terminal or an AI assistant.
Three different approaches to "remind me about this email later" — compared on how they work, what they cost, and who they're actually built for.
Why "every 7 days" is not the same thing as "every week," and how the RRULE standard (RFC 5545) handles the edge cases that naive recurrence logic gets wrong.
Switching to a GUI app to jot down a reminder breaks flow. A CLI reminder tool means the thought and the terminal command happen in the same motion.
Ambiguity, timezones, and relative dates make free-text date parsing a genuinely hard problem — and why showing a parsed preview before submitting matters.
A chat session forgets everything when it ends. Agents that need to act in the future — not just respond in the present — need a durable scheduling primitive.