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05Routines

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Some conversationsshould start themselves.

Ask your agent, in words, to check in every morning, prepare you before each meeting or review the week on Fridays. When the time comes, it starts the conversation. When there’s nothing to say, it stays quiet.

  1. 1Say what and when
  2. 2It opens the conversation

The follow-up you would have skipped

Reviewing what’s open is the habit everyone means to have. A routine turns it into something that arrives, already done, at the time you chose.

Silent when there’s nothing

A routine that checks your calendar every 15 minutes is only bearable because it speaks only when something is about to happen.

No form to fill

You say “every weekday at nine”; the agent writes it in .glowstone/rutinas.md, a normal file you can read and edit, and repeats back what it understood.

Step 1

Say what and when

In any chat. The agent turns “every morning at nine” into the schedule, writes the routine and tells you, in your words, what it understood. If what you ask doesn’t fit the schedules it supports, it says so instead of approximating.

02Written in a file you can open, and repeated back in your words.
A sentence becomes a routine in a file you can open.
Step 2

It opens the conversation

At the time, the agent runs against your workspace and its answer arrives as a new chat in your list, with a notification. You can reply to it like any other.

Routines run while Glowstone is open. They don’t wake a sleeping Mac.

02A normal chat: reply to it, ask more, or let it be.
09:00: the conversation starts without you.

Things to ask

  • “Every weekday at nine, tell me what’s still open.”
  • “Before every meeting, tell me who’s coming and what we left open.”
  • “Every Friday at five, review my week.”
  • “On the 1st of each month, list invoices that are still unpaid.”

When it can run

daily 09:00
Every day
weekdays 09:00
Monday to Friday
weekly fri 17:00
One day of the week
monthly 1 09:00
One day of the month
once 2026-10-20 16:00
A single time
every 15m
Every so often (5 minutes minimum)

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  • Transcription and dictation: free, with Whisper running on your Mac. No per-minute fees, no word limits.
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Try it on your own work.

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