How to Use Sunday Nudge

When your number is added to Sunday Nudge, you'll receive a text asking for your consent. Reply YES to activate your account. Until you reply YES, no reminders will be sent to you.

Just text naturally — no special format required.

• –Call Joe Tuesday 2pm
• –Dentist appointment March 12 at 10am
• –Pick up kids Friday at 3:30pm
• –Team meeting tomorrow at 9am
• –Remind me 30 minutes before my 3pm call with Sarah

Sunday Nudge saves it immediately and confirms what it understood:

If something saved incorrectly, reply UNDO to cancel it. If Sunday Nudge couldn't understand your message it will ask follow-up questions to get the details it needs — and confirm before saving.

At the scheduled time you'll receive a text like this:

If you don't reply, Sunday Nudge will send one follow-up about 30 minutes later as a nudge — just in case you missed it.

Add a recurrence phrase to your message to set up a repeating reminder.

Simple patterns:

• –Take vitamins every day at 8am
• –Team standup every week Monday at 9am
• –Pay rent every month on the 1st at 10am
• –Dad's birthday every year March 12 at noon

Specific days of the week:

• –Take vitamins every weekday at 8am
• –Go to the gym every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7am
• –Check in with team every Tuesday and Thursday at 9am

The saved confirmation shows the recurrence so you can verify — reply UNDO if anything looks wrong:

After each reminder fires, Sunday Nudge automatically schedules the next occurrence. To stop a recurring reminder, use DELETE to cancel the next upcoming occurrence — that stops the chain.

You can send these any time:

Use MOVE to reschedule a reminder by name. Sunday Nudge will find it and ask you to confirm the change.

You can also change the recurrence of a reminder the same way:

If the time you specify has already passed today, Sunday Nudge automatically schedules it for tomorrow at that time.

Text DELETE to remove a reminder before it fires. The app will show your upcoming reminders as a numbered list — reply with the number to remove it.

Add a note to any reminder by including a pipe character | followed by your note. The pipe is intentional — it's a deliberate separator that keeps notes clearly distinct from the reminder title, even on mobile.

• –Call Joe Tuesday 2pm | ask about the contract renewal
• –Dentist March 12 10am | bring insurance card
• –Team standup every Monday 9am | check on sprint progress

The note is shown in the saved confirmation so you can verify it — reply UNDO if anything looks wrong:

When the reminder fires, the note appears below the reminder — clearly separated so it catches your eye:

Notes are visible in your dashboard too. They're great for context you'll want when the reminder fires — a talking point, a detail to look up, or a follow-up action.

Setting your timezone

Your timezone defaults to Eastern. If you're in a different zone, text TIMEZONE followed by your zone name:

• –TIMEZONE Central
• –TIMEZONE Pacific
• –TIMEZONE Mountain
• –TIMEZONE America/Chicago

Quiet hours

Don't want reminders waking you up? Set a quiet window and Sunday Nudge will hold any reminders that fall inside it and send them when the window ends.

• –QUIET 10pm-7am
• –QUIET 11pm-8am

Text QUIET OFF to clear quiet hours. You can also set quiet hours from the web dashboard.

Pausing reminders

Going on vacation or just need a break? Text PAUSE to suspend all reminder sends until a date or for a set number of days. Your reminders stay scheduled — they just won't fire until you're back.

• –PAUSE until March 20
• –PAUSE 7 days
• –PAUSE until April 1 2026

Every Sunday morning, Sunday Nudge sends you a short check-in asking what you'd like on your radar for the week. It's an easy habit to make sure nothing important slips through.

If you don't respond to the check-in, you'll get one gentle follow-up a bit later. You can also SNOOZE the check-in if you're not ready yet.

The check-in arrives at 9am by default. You can change the delivery time from the web dashboard under Sunday Check-in Time.

Sunday Nudge has an optional web dashboard at sundaynudge.com/dashboard. Text WEB, APP, or LOGIN to get a direct link sent to your phone.

From the dashboard you can:

• –Create new reminders using a form instead of texting
• –Edit or reschedule any upcoming reminder
• –View your reminder history
• –Set quiet hours so reminders are held during sleep or focus time
• –Pause reminders for a trip or break, and resume when you're back
• –Change the time your Sunday check-in arrives
• –Update your timezone

• –Relative dates work: "tomorrow," "next Tuesday," "this Friday"
• –Specific dates work: "March 12," "April 3rd at 2pm"
• –Lead times work: "remind me 30 minutes before my 3pm meeting" fires the reminder at 2:30pm
• –To be reminded at a specific time, just say that time: "Call Joe at 3pm" fires the reminder at 3pm
• –If Sunday Nudge can't tell whether you mean AM or PM, it will ask before saving
• –Conversations time out after 20 minutes — if you start scheduling something and walk away, just start over with a new message
• –Your timezone defaults to Eastern — text TIMEZONE followed by your zone if you're elsewhere