A photo of the timetable becomes reminders — with no invented times
Every September a sheet appears: the timetable. A little later, a second one with the bell times, because schools print those separately. Copying both into a phone by hand is an evening of repeating alarms, and one mistyped hour sends a child somewhere at the wrong moment. Photograph them instead — and if the paper does not say when a lesson ends, neither will the reminder.
How to add a school timetable, step by step
- Photograph the timetable. In the app, attach the photo in the chat or open “Timetable from a photo”; on the website, “📷 Timetable from a photo”; in Telegram, just send the photo to the bot.
- If the bell times are on a separate sheet, photograph that too. The order does not matter — the sheets are put together by lesson number.
- Check what was read. Before anything is saved you see every day and every lesson, and whatever could not be read is named separately. In the app you can also choose how many minutes ahead to remind, and who the timetable is for — you or someone in your family.
- Confirm. Reminders appear only then. Fix a mistake later in one sentence: “on Tuesday the second one is chemistry”.
What next: a day off, the holidays, the whole class
- A child is ill, or there is an air-raid alert — “mute the timetable until tomorrow”. Lessons in that time do not arrive, and a short report comes at the end. More on mute.
- The holidays, or a week off sick — “pause the timetable”, then “resume the timetable”.
- The whole class needs it — “give me a link to the timetable” and drop it into the class chat: everyone adds their own copy. How it works: sharing a timetable by link.
- The other parent, or the child, needs it — “send Nadia the timetable”, if your accounts are in the same family.
Two sheets, photographed separately
The subject grid says which lesson sits in which slot on which day. The bell sheet says when slot 2 starts and finishes, and it is the same every day. They are two documents because a school prints them as two documents, so the app reads them as two documents.
Either can come first. Send the bells and then the subjects, or the other way round; they are merged by slot, so a sheet that only shows lessons 1 to 4 never erases what is already known about 5 and 6.
A timetable with no bell times is a note, not a reminder
"Geometry after physics" has no moment in it. There is nothing for a notification to fire at, and an app that pretends otherwise has to invent an hour to fire at.
So it says so, and offers to keep the week as notes — one note per day, not one per lesson, because "Monday: geometry, physics, history" is one thing a person knows. Photograph the bell sheet later and the same grid turns into reminders, with nothing re-photographed.
Nothing is guessed
If a row is unreadable it is reported, not reconstructed. If the paper gives a start and no end, the reminder has a start and no end. Forty-five minutes is a reasonable guess about a lesson and a terrible guess about a child waiting at a gate.
One reminder for the end of the day, not for the end of every lesson
Nobody needs telling that maths is over. What the afternoon turns on is when lessons finish — meeting them, bread on the way home, the book that goes back to the teacher — so ask for that: after school, remind me to…
Days that finish at the same time share one reminder rather than becoming five near-identical ones, and a day whose last lesson has no end time is named and left out instead of quietly guessed.
Corrections in a sentence
A timetable is not right the first time. Say on Tuesday the second one is chemistry, not physics and that slot changes; the rest of Tuesday stays as it was. A plain list replaces the day, a numbered lesson edits one slot — the difference lives in the words, so you never learn a syntax.
Keep more than one and name them, and each message says which it belongs to.
It costs one slot, and the family shares it
A timetable counts as one against your limit, not thirty-four. What you manage is "my son's school timetable", added once. The free plan keeps one timetable; notes carry no trigger and cost nothing at all.
Parents can set reminders for each other and for the child. A family here shares reminders and not location: nobody in it sees where anyone is.
FAQ
How does it tell the two sheets apart?
By what is on them. Days of the week and subject names make it a timetable; numbered rows with clock times and no subjects make it a bell sheet. Either can be sent first.
What if part of the photo is unreadable?
It comes back as a warning naming what could not be read, and that part is left empty. It is not filled in from context — a subject guessed from its neighbours is how a child ends up at the wrong lesson.
Can I type it instead of photographing it?
Yes, and in as many messages as you like: "bells: first lesson 8:30-9:15", then "Monday: geometry, physics, history". The photo and the sentence build the same timetable.
Does a timetable eat my whole allowance?
No — one slot, however many lessons are in it, and however many photos and corrections it took to assemble. The free plan includes one timetable.
Where does it work?
Telegram, the Android app and the web. A timetable added in one shows up in all three.