Use case

A random reminder app that works over email

Most random reminder apps are mobile-only and push-only: another icon on your phone, another stream of notifications you learn to swipe away. Untimely runs in your browser and delivers by email — or by webhook, which can reach a texting service or Slack. You write the reminder, pick a window, and it arrives at a moment you can't predict, on whatever device you happen to be reading email.

Reminders that arrive when you can't predict them

A reminder set for 9:00 every morning becomes wallpaper — your brain files it under 'expected' and stops noticing. A nudge that lands at 10:42 one day and 15:18 the next keeps its jolt, because it never matches a pattern you've learned to ignore. That surprise is the whole point: a small, gentle interruption you didn't schedule yourself into numbness.

Works in the browser, delivered by email

There is nothing to install. You create an event on the web, and Untimely emails the reminder when its window opens — so it reaches you on your laptop, your phone, your tablet, wherever your inbox is. Mobile-only reminder apps trap the nudge behind a single device and a notification permission; email meets you across all of them.

If you want the nudge somewhere other than email, a webhook action can POST to your own endpoint, a Slack incoming webhook, or a texting service — the same event model, a different destination.

What people schedule

Self-authored affirmations that resurface at random ('you've handled harder than this'). Drink-water and fix-your-posture nudges that don't turn into ignorable clockwork. Random journaling prompts that catch you in a different mood each time. Surprise messages to your future self, arriving when you've forgotten you wrote them. Set the window wide and the reminder becomes a genuine little gift you can't see coming.

Try it

Create it with one API call (create an API key in dashboard settings first):

curl -sS "https://untimely.app/api/events" \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $UNTIMELY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "idempotency-key: random-reminder-email-001" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Random affirmation to myself",
    "interval": 1,
    "frequency": 2,
    "betweenTimeStart": "13:00",
    "betweenTimeEnd": "23:00",
    "actionType": "EMAIL",
    "content": "Stand up, breathe, and remember: you have handled harder than this.",
    "contentType": "static"
  }'

FAQ

Questions about this use case

Do I need to install an app?

No. Untimely runs in your browser and delivers reminders by email, so there is nothing to install and nothing to keep open. Reminders reach you on any device where you read email.

Can the reminder wording change each time?

Yes — set contentType to "gpt" and the email content is generated fresh on every run, so a recurring nudge never repeats the same sentence.

Can it reach me somewhere other than email?

Yes. Untimely's Email and Webhook actions cover both cases: a Webhook action can POST to your own endpoint, a Slack incoming webhook, or a texting service, so the same random-time nudge can land wherever you prefer.

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