Reminder Bot
Procrastination and ADHD are things my friends and I have always struggled with, and the research says we are not uniquely broken, just part of a very large club: Steel’s meta-analysis estimates that 80 to 95 percent of college students procrastinate, and a global review puts symptomatic ADHD at roughly 6.8 percent of adults. What I wanted was accountability I could not dodge, so I moved the nagging into the one place I already have open all day: Discord. Reminder Bot is a Discord bot you host yourself that pings you and your friends on your own schedule, keeps a scoreboard of who followed through, and keeps every scrap of its data on your own machine.
What a reminder looks like when it fires. It pings the people you tagged, and you tap ✅ when it is done or ❌ if you are skipping it.
A reminder that actually pings you
Give a reminder a time, a title, and the people to tag, and when the moment comes the bot posts it in your channel and pings them. Every reminder can recur on whatever rhythm you want (daily, weekly, or specific weekdays), fire several times a day so ticking any one skips the rest (handy for medication or water), and respect an away schedule so a holiday holds your pings and does not read as a week of failure. Two reactions sit on every reminder: tap ✅ and it counts as done, tap ❌ or ignore it and it counts as a miss. That single tap is the whole scoring system.
The part I actually love: the reports
The tap-to-complete scoring quietly adds up, and once a week and once a month the bot turns it into a report. Your score is simply the reminders you ticked off divided by the ones you were sent, and each person gets a line of commentary pitched to how they did.
The weekly report. Do well and it cheers you on. Slack off and it drags you, gently.
The commentary is the whole personality of the thing. A rough week gets “The bar was on the floor and you brought a shovel.” There are hundreds of these lines across four tiers, so the roasts and the praise rarely repeat, and the monthly report even crowns a winner. It is silly on purpose, because a scoreboard between friends should be fun to lose as well as to win.
It runs on your machine, and stays there
Like everything I build, this one keeps to itself. There is no external server and no account: you run it on your own computer with your own bot token, and your reminders, stats, and away schedules all live in plain files next to the bot, yours to read, back up, or wipe.
Coming soon
Reminder Bot works, and it has been running in my own server for months, but it is still wired to my personal bot token and local storage. Once I have generalised the code and tidied it up, I will make it public. For now, consider this a preview of what is coming.
Built with an LLM as a coding partner.
Public release coming soon