Course Reminder Automation

Problem

Students or anyone with a recurring schedule often keeps course names, times, and rooms in CSV, Excel, group messages, or paper notes. Checking manually before class can lead to missed sessions, while a daily summary also needs a reliable trigger. course-reminder turns the schedule into maintainable data and uses cron to check course status, then sends reminders N minutes before class and at a fixed daily time.

How It Works

• Course management: add courses with name, time, room, and weekday; import from CSV or Excel; view, edit, or delete entries. The skill stores data in courses.json under its skill directory and supports JSON-format schedule import.
• Scheduled reminders: configure advance notice with reminder_minutes, default 15; configure the daily schedule push with daily_summary_time, default 07:30; use skip_weekends to exclude weekends.
• Message delivery: reminders include course name, time, room, and remaining time, sent through the OpenClaw message channel to platforms such as WeChat and Telegram.

Boundaries

This fits personal learning workflows with a relatively fixed schedule, where pre-class alerts and a daily summary are useful. The documentation does not mention multi-user permissions, conflict detection, or cross-platform calendar sync, so frequent schedule changes still require maintaining the source CSV/JSON. enabled can disable reminders entirely, which is useful for importing the schedule before turning delivery on.