A reminders app built from your messages. Surfaces bills, renewals, contracts, and follow-ups before the window to act closes — and refuses to be silenced until the work is acknowledged.
READS YOURINBOX.WON'T LET YOUFORGET.
A reminders app that builds itself from your messages — Gmail, forwarded mail, or a Telegram bot — and won't shut up until you've actually handled it. Bills. Renewals. Contracts. Appointments. Surfaced before the window to act closes, not the day the deadline hits.
Why this
exists.
An insurance renewal email arrived in March. The negotiation window quietly closed ~30 days later. By the time the invoice landed, the leverage was already gone.
The story is about insurance because that's what bit us. The same failure applies to any actionable message — a contract auto-renewing in your inbox, a school costume contest mentioned in a parent Telegram group, a permit lapsing, a follow-up someone is quietly waiting on.
Apple Reminders didn't catch it because (a) you have to create the reminder manually, and (b) one notification fires once and disappears. The whole point of a reminder is that it should be impossible to ignore until acknowledged.
ONIT IS BUILT TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE EXACTLY ONCE.
Three things, in this order.
No competitor combines all three. Most do one well; a few do two. Onit does all three or it doesn't ship.
Reminders are auto-detected from messages you already receive. You never type one. Three sources, your choice: read-only Gmail, a per-user forward-email address (anything you forward becomes a reminder), or a Telegram bot you DM, forward to, or @-mention in a group. Bills, renewals, appointments, follow-ups — all of it.
One notification isn't a reminder; it's a hope. Onit escalates: weekly → 3-day → daily as the deadline approaches. The only way to stop the nudges is Done or Snooze.
Fires when you can still act, not when it's already too late. Insurance renewals: 30 days early, while you can negotiate. Software subscriptions: 7 days, while you can cancel. Domains: 14 days, while you can transfer. Each category gets its own window.
The flow.
From message to done. A bill, renewal, or forwarded note lands — Onit filters the noise, extracts the obligation, and waits on your one-tap confirmation. Then it nudges, on a cadence that escalates as the deadline approaches, until you act.
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How it actually works.
- 01Pick a source (or three)
Connect Gmail with read-only OAuth, or grab a forward-email address (yours@mail.getonit.dev) and forward anything to it, or DM the Telegram bot. Use one. Use all three. They feed the same pipeline.
- 02Onit watches your messages
Gmail syncs every 15 minutes. Forwarded mail and Telegram are instant. A smart pre-filter drops ~85% of traffic before AI ever touches it — only the actionable bits get read.
- 03AI extracts the reminder
Just the structured fields: what needs doing, by when, and — crucially — when you should act. Full message bodies are never stored.
- 04You confirm
One tap to confirm or dismiss. Onit learns from your dismissals to reduce false positives.
- 05Onit nudges, escalating
Weekly → 3-day → daily as the deadline approaches. Quiet hours respected. Persistent until acknowledged, not until you swipe.
- 06Done — and only then silent
Mark done from the notification (no app open). Onit shuts up. Forever, for that reminder.
Trust is the whole product.
Onit asks to read your messages. That's a serious ask. Here's exactly what each source means — and what it doesn't.
- ✓Gmail is read-only. Onit never sends, modifies, archives, or deletes a single email.
- ✓Forward-email only sees what you explicitly forward. We never connect to your mailbox.
- ✓Telegram bot privacy mode is on. The bot only reads DMs, forwards, or @-mentions — never passive group chatter.
- ✓Full message bodies are never stored. We persist a provider-native ID and an up-to-2,000-char obligation note.
- ✓OAuth tokens are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM. Passwords are hashed with argon2id.
- ✓We never train models on your messages. We never sell your data.
- ✓One-tap disconnect per source deletes everything from that source within 24 hours.
- ✓No analytics SDKs. No advertising IDs.
Get on the
waitlist.
Onit ships when it ships. Apple still reviews. We'll let you in as soon as that clears — Telegram and forward-email work from day one; Gmail lights up once Google's OAuth verification clears.