Telegram Bot for Reminders: Set One in Any Chat
Reminders live in a dozen different apps, and that is exactly the problem: the app you set the reminder in is never the app you are looking at when the thing actually needs doing. A Telegram bot for reminders solves this by putting the reminder where your attention already is — inside the chat you use every day.
NudgeRemindBot keeps reminders inside Telegram instead of a separate app. Tell it what to remember and when, and a 1-minute background check delivers the message to the chat you set it in — a group or your DM with the bot. It understands several ways of describing time and stores your timezone once with /tz, so 'tomorrow at 9' means the same thing every time you use it.
Because it works in any chat, a reminder bot is useful for far more than personal to-dos. Set a group reminder for a shared deadline, a recurring daily check-in, or a one-off 'call the dentist' in your own DM — all without leaving Telegram or installing anything new.
Steps
- Start a chat with the bot. Open @NudgeRemindBot and press Start. You can set reminders in your private DM with the bot, or add it to a group and run the same commands there — the reminder is delivered back to whichever chat you set it in.
- Set your timezone once. Run /tz +2 (your UTC offset) so the bot reads and displays times in your local clock. Without it, times are interpreted as UTC and will be off from your local time, so this one command is worth doing before anything else.
- Create a reminder. Run /remind tomorrow 9am call the dentist. The bot accepts relative times ('in 2h'), 'at 19:00', 'tomorrow 19:00', weekday names like 'fri 19:00', or a full date like '2026-09-10 19:00'.
- Manage your reminders. /list shows your upcoming reminders, /del 4 deletes one by its id, and a delivered reminder carries a Snooze button with a few preset delays so you can reschedule it without retyping anything.
- Go Pro for repeats. The free tier allows 5 active reminders at once. /pro removes the cap and adds daily repeating reminders ('every day 19:00'), available as a one-time 150 Stars payment or a 100 Stars/month subscription.
Good to know
- Free: 5 active reminders at a time.
- Pro: unlimited reminders and daily repeating reminders, one-time 150 Stars or 100 Stars/month.
- Reminder text is only ever sent back to the chat it was created in.
- Set /tz once or every time you use it, times will be off from your local clock.
- Works in groupsand DMs — run /remind in a groupand it is delivered there.
- Marcus runs /tz +2 once, then sets a batch of reminders in his DM with @NudgeRemindBot: /remind tomorrow 9am callthe dentist, /remind fri 19:00 pay rent,and /remind 2026-11-14 09:00 mom's birthday. /list confirms all three are queued with ids 1–3. When the 'pay rent' reminder fires Friday evening, he taps Snooze twice to push it to Saturday after finishing an open message thread — no retyping. Running another reminder in the group chat, /remind 18:00 project standup, deliversit there so the whole team sees the same nudge. The free cap of 5 active reminders comfortably covers all three plus headroom; it's only when he adds a recurring daily 'take meds' that he'd hit the cap and consider a one-time /pro 150 Stars for repeating reminders.
FAQ
- What time formats does the bot accept?
- Relative ('in 2h', 'in 1h30m'), 'at 19:00', 'tomorrow 19:00', a weekday like 'fri 19:00', or a full date like '2026-09-10 19:00', all read in your saved /tz offset.
- Can I set reminders in a group chat?
- Yes — run /remind in a group and the reminder is delivered back to that group; run it in your DM with the bot and it is delivered there.
- Can I snooze a reminder after it fires?
- Yes — the delivered reminder carries a Snooze button with a few preset delays; tapping it reschedules the same reminder.
- How many reminders can I have for free?
- 5 active reminders at once. /pro removes that cap and adds daily repeating reminders, either as a one-time 150 Stars payment or a 100 Stars/month subscription.