You promise things constantly. The intro you said you'd make, the deck you said you'd send, the "let's talk next week" you meant. Then the week happens. Reminders is where those promises go so they stop living in your head: Goodword pulls them out of your meetings, your email, your DMs, and your debriefs, ranks them by what actually matters, and surfaces each one with a message already drafted.

Reminders create themselves. Goodword watches everywhere you make commitments:

Or create them yourself, anywhere, in plain language. Type "remind me to check in with Dana about the board seat in two weeks" in the app, in AI chat, by text, or in Claude (MCP), and Goodword extracts the who, the what, and the when. Mention several commitments at once and each becomes its own reminder.

Only what matters surfaces. Every reminder is scored on time sensitivity, how much it serves your goals, and what triggered it. Your home screen shows the top handful, so the queue stays short enough to trust. The rest wait on the All Reminders page, and you can drag anything to the top if Goodword ranked it wrong.

When a reminder needs a message, it's already drafted. For the ones that call for outreach, tap and the message is written, referencing the commitment, the context, the thing you said you'd do. Edit, pick your channel (email, LinkedIn, text, copy), send. The follow-up you've postponed for a week takes thirty seconds.

Miss one? It comes back. A reminder that goes past due doesn't die. It re-queues a few days later. And stale low-priority reminders quietly age out after a month, so the list never becomes a graveyard that makes you avoid opening it.

Investor follow-through is the reputation. "I'll send the data room tonight." "I'll intro you to our design partner." Investors remember who followed through, and it's a proxy for how you'll run the company. With Granola connected, every commitment you make in a pitch is queued with a draft before you've left the Zoom.

Never leave a customer hanging. The quote you promised, the reorder you said you'd check on, the supplier question sitting unanswered in your inbox. The nightly unanswered-message check is the safety net: the customer email that slipped past you on a busy Tuesday shows up as a reminder Wednesday morning instead of a lost sale.

One follow-up system across every client. Three clients means three sets of promises in three contexts. Reminders collapses them into one ranked queue, and because your BD commitments ("circle back with that founder next month") live in the same queue as client work, staying in touch with prospects stops being the thing that always loses to billable hours.

The post-call commitments that win the work. "We'll send a scope by Thursday." "I'll intro you to our dev partner." Speed and follow-through on those little promises is how boutiques beat bigger shops. After events, batch it: "remind me to follow up with everyone I met at the conference in three weeks" in AI chat, and the whole cohort is queued.

Every follow-up in one place, not scattered across five apps. Your commitments are normally stranded in the tool they were born in: a flag in Gmail, an event on your calendar, a note in Granola, a DM you meant to answer. Reminders pulls all of it into one ranked queue, so you complete follow-ups from Goodword instead of chasing them app to app. Nothing hides in a corner you forget to check.

How does Goodword decide priority? A blend of time sensitivity, alignment with your goals, and what created the reminder. Disagree? Drag any reminder to the priority you want and it stays there.

What counts as an "unanswered message"? An inbound email or LinkedIn DM from a relevant contact that you haven't replied to after several days. Bulk mail and automated senders never qualify.

How do reminders differ from recommendations? Reminders close loops you already opened: commitments and conversations that exist. Recommendations open new ones, people Goodword suggests you reach out to next. Reactive and proactive, side by side.

What happens if I ignore a reminder? It re-queues a few days after going past due. If it sits at low priority for a month untouched, it ages out on its own, no guilt pile.

Can I make reminders without a contact attached? Yes. "Remind me to book the offsite venue Friday" works fine. When you mention a person, Goodword links them so the draft has context.

Where can I create reminders from? The app, AI chat, a text to Goodword, an email to Goodword, or Claude via the MCP. They all land in the same queue.

Next: say one commitment out loud to Goodword (chat, text, or type) and watch it come back at the right time with the message already written. Then see Your daily Goodword for where reminders surface in the daily rhythm.