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What you can ask via text

Common SMS requests with examples — across email, calendar, tasks, notes, and settings.

You can talk to alfred_ over SMS the same way you’d talk to a human assistant — natural language, no specific syntax. Here are common requests grouped by capability.

Email

  • “Brief me”
  • “What’s in my inbox?”
  • “Reply to John saying I’ll get back to him tomorrow”
  • “Archive everything from notifications.atlassian.com”
  • “Draft a reply to that thread with Sarah saying I’m interested”
  • “What did Sarah email about last week?”
  • “Did the contract come through yet?”
  • “Send the proposal email I drafted earlier”

Calendar

  • “What’s on today?”
  • “What do I have tomorrow?”
  • “Schedule lunch with Marc next Wednesday at noon”
  • “Move my 3pm to 4pm”
  • “Cancel Friday’s standup, apologize on my behalf”
  • “When am I free this week for an hour?”
  • “Find 30 min that works for me, John, and Sarah”
  • “Prep me for the 3pm with Acme”

Tasks

  • “What’s on my list?”
  • “What’s overdue?”
  • “Add a task: send proposal to Acme by Friday”
  • “Mark the contract task done”
  • “Push the Acme deadline to next Tuesday”
  • “What did I commit to this week?”

Notes

  • “Save a note: John prefers async updates”
  • “Find my note about the Acme proposal”
  • “What did I save about Sarah?”

Settings

  • “Set my morning brief to 7am”
  • “Turn on quiet hours from 9pm to 7am”
  • “Don’t text me on weekends”
  • “Add my Zoom link as the default”

Memory

  • “Remember that Sarah’s birthday is March 12”
  • “Remember I prefer not to take meetings before 9am”
  • “Forget what I told you about my coffee order”

Web research

  • “What’s the latest on [topic]?”
  • “Read this URL and summarize: [link]”
  • “Save that article to my notes”

When it doesn’t work

If alfred_ doesn’t understand or can’t run something:

  • It’ll ask for clarification
  • For things that need a rich UI (compose previews, kanban card editing), alfred_ will direct you to Web Chat
  • For things blocked by a feature flag (e.g., Workflows behind allowlist), it won’t pretend it can do them