Calendar, reminders and scheduled tasks

Your calendar holds three kinds of items:

Kind	What it is
Event	Something happening at a time, with a duration and optional attendees
Reminder	A text reminder sent to you or to group members at a time
Task	Work your Gluon does at a time, such as “every Monday at 8, summarise my week”

Items are private to you or belong to a group. The Calendar page shows all of them: your private items, your groups’ items, events you’re invited to and reminders addressed to you. Each group’s Calendar tab shows just that group, with other members’ private events as Busy blocks without details.

Ask Gluon

• “Add dentist on Thursday at 4:30 for an hour.”
• “Remind me in 20 minutes to take the cake out.”
• “Every weekday at 7:45, remind Dad to take his medicine and ask him to confirm.”
• “Every Sunday at 9, check the weather for the week and tell me which days are good for a picnic.”
• “What’s on our family calendar this weekend?”
• “Move my Friday call to 5.”

Gluon asks when a time or repeat is unclear. Creating a scheduled task and changing a reminder or task ask for your approval by default, because a task runs an instruction on your behalf; the approval card shows the exact instruction.

Repeats

Items can repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, every N days or weeks, on chosen weekdays, on a day of the month, or on patterns such as “the last Friday of every month”, for a number of times or until a date. A repeat at 09:00 stays at 09:00 across daylight saving changes. Repeats more often than daily, and several times a day in one item, aren’t supported; create separate items instead.

Reminders for other people

In a group, a reminder can go to chosen members, such as “remind Dad”. Each recipient gets a push notification and an item in Needs you.

A confirmation reminder waits for the recipient to tap Done. If nobody confirms within 30 minutes (or the time you chose), it reminds them again; if there’s still no answer, it tells you, the creator, who hasn’t confirmed. Recipients can also Snooze it.

Scheduled tasks

A task runs your instruction at its time, with your Gluon’s usual tools and permissions:

• It runs in the chat where you created it, or in a fresh chat each time if you ask for a standalone report. A fresh chat sees only the saved instruction, so make the instruction complete on its own.
• If it reaches a tool set to Ask, it waits in that chat and in Needs you for your approval.
• A task created in a group runs on your Gluon in the group and posts its result there.
• Deleting the chat a task belongs to cancels the task.

The Calendar page shows each reminder’s and task’s history: the last 30 runs with their results.

Time zones

Gluon uses your device’s time zone, which the app reports when you open it. Until it knows, it asks for your time zone before scheduling anything except a reminder “in N minutes”. Each item keeps its own time zone, so editing only the time zone keeps the local time.

The Calendar page

• Day and week views, with All, Events, Reminders and Tasks filters and a group picker.
• Create events and reminders directly, choosing private or a group, attendees or recipients, date and time, duration, repeat and confirmation.
• Edit an event if you created it or own its group; a reminder or task only if you created it. Editing a repeating item changes the whole series.
• Delete removes the whole series. Tasks are created in chat, not on the page.

Who can change what: anyone in a group can add items; only the creator or the group owner can edit or delete an event; only the creator can change a reminder or task, because it posts or runs as their Gluon.

Limits

• Gluon lists at most 60 days of calendar at a time; the page shows 62.
• Reminders and tasks fire within about a minute of their time.
• Text in a reminder’s push is cut at 500 characters; Needs you keeps 1,000.