birthday-reminder

What This Skill Does

The Birthday Reminder skill for OpenClaw is a sophisticated, natural language-enabled utility designed to track, manage, and calculate birthdays of your contacts directly from your file system. By storing data in a local Markdown file, it ensures that your private data remains under your control while providing intelligent features like upcoming reminders, age estimation, and proximity calculations. The skill automatically parses various date formats, from simple day-month strings to full birth dates including years, allowing it to calculate the exact age a person will reach during their next birthday. It functions as an automated personal assistant that monitors your data and alerts you via predefined notification schedules (7 days, 1 day, and on the day of the event), ensuring you never miss an important celebration again.

Installation

To install this skill, use the ClawHub command-line tool within your terminal. Run the following command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/manantra/birthday-reminder

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for users who want a decentralized, text-based solution for relationship management. It is ideal for those who prefer to keep their contacts in plain text rather than using opaque cloud databases. You can use it to maintain a list of friends and family, check how many days remain until a specific person's special day, or quickly resolve the age of someone for social planning. It is especially useful for setting up automated daily cron checks to ensure you receive proactive notifications for upcoming events.

Example Prompts

1. "Valentina hat am 14. Februar Geburtstag, füge sie bitte meiner Liste hinzu."
2. "Wann hat Max Geburtstag und wie alt wird er dieses Jahr?"
3. "Nächste Geburtstage - wer hat in den kommenden zwei Wochen Geburtstag?"

Tips & Limitations

The file is stored at /home/clawd/clawd/data/birthdays.md. For optimal performance, try to keep the file sorted, although the underlying logic handles basic date comparisons well. When adding new entries, providing the full date (DD.MM.YYYY) is recommended if you want the agent to calculate specific age milestones rather than just dates. Note that this skill requires direct file system access, so ensure your OpenClaw instance has appropriate permissions to modify files within the data directory.