Telegram Reminder Bot
Let the bot do the following up: appointment nudges, renewal notices and check-ins that send themselves.
Some messages are worth more later than now. The Reminder block hands a message to a scheduler and lets the conversation carry on, so your bot can follow up hours or weeks after somebody stops typing.
How the Reminder block worksPro
Drop it into a flow, choose how long to wait and what should happen when the wait is over. The delay is written in minutes, hours or days, and anything from 1 minute to 365 days ahead is accepted. Each person can have up to 100 reminders waiting at once.
Two things it can do when the time comes:
Send a message
Write the text in the block. Variables are filled in at the moment the reminder is scheduled, so the message already knows the person's name and whatever else the flow captured.
Run part of a flow
Point it at another block instead, and when the timer expires the flow picks up from there — buttons, a lookup, a branch, anything you have built.
Scheduling a reminder also sets a variable holding its id, named after the result variable you choose, so a later block can refer to the reminder it just created.
Delays are relative, not clock times. You schedule “in 2 hours” or “in 3 days”, counted from the moment the block runs. There is no “every Monday at 9am”, and nothing to get wrong across time zones.
Worked example: the day-before nudge
What people schedule
Appointment reminders
Confirm the booking now, nudge the day before. Fewer people forget, and nobody has to send it by hand.
Renewal nudges
A week before something runs out, the bot says so — and can link straight to whatever happens next.
Follow-ups after a sign-up
Somebody joins, and a couple of hours later the bot checks whether they got stuck.
Short drip sequences
Chain a few reminders at different delays to teach a feature over several days without sending everything at once.
Building one
- Start the flow the usual way, with a command, a keyword or a button tap.
- Reply immediately so the person knows they were heard.
- Add the Reminder block, set the wait, and write the follow-up message.
- Save, then run through it yourself with a one-minute delay to see the whole cycle before you switch to days.
Reminders are held on the server, so they go out whether or not you are online, and whether or not the person opens Telegram in the meantime.
Worth knowing before you lean on it
- Reminders belong to a person, not to the bot. Each one is scheduled for the contact whose conversation created it, so a hundred people in the same flow get a hundred separate follow-ups.
- There is a ceiling per person. Once somebody has 100 reminders waiting, further ones are skipped rather than queued, which keeps a runaway loop from burying anyone.
- Test with a one-minute wait. Set the delay to a minute, walk the flow yourself, and watch the follow-up land before you change it to days.
- The text is fixed when the reminder is created. Variables are resolved at scheduling time, so a message that mentions somebody's order captures it as it was then.
- Reminder is a Pro block. If the plan returns to Free, flows containing it stop replying until Pro is back.
Used carefully, a couple of well-timed reminders do more for a conversation than a dozen extra replies at the start.
Questions
Can I schedule a message for a fixed date and time?
Delays are relative: you set a wait in minutes, hours or days from the moment the block runs. A specific calendar time such as every Monday at 9am is not something the block expresses.
How far ahead can a reminder be set?
From 1 minute to 365 days after the block runs.
How many reminders can one person have pending?
Up to 100 at a time. Beyond that the block skips scheduling rather than piling more on.
Can a reminder do more than send text?
Yes. Point it at a block in the flow and the conversation resumes from there when the timer expires, so the follow-up can include buttons or a lookup.
Build yours today
Add a Reminder block today and let tomorrow's follow-up send itself.
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