Scheduled tasks (Automations)

Scheduled tasks let Harriet Desktop run a prompt for you on a repeating schedule — for example "every weekday at 9am, summarise my unread inbox". You'll find them under Settings → Automations.

Create a scheduled task

1. Open Settings → Automations and choose New scheduled task (or start from a template).
2. Give it a name, describe what it should do, pick a schedule (daily at a time, or every few hours), and choose the workspace it should run in.
3. Choose Ask AI to set this up. Harriet opens a chat with your request already sent. If anything is unclear, it will ask you a quick question before scheduling — so the task is set up the way you meant.

Once confirmed, the task appears in your Automations list.

When tasks run

• Schedules use your computer's time zone — the time you pick is the local time it runs. The wizard shows the active time zone, and each task shows its next run.
• Tasks run while Harriet Desktop is open. You don't have to keep a chat open — Harriet runs them in the background.

Missed tasks (computer asleep or app closed)

If a task's time passes while Harriet is closed or your computer is asleep, Harriet doesn't run it silently. The next time you open Harriet, it asks which missed tasks you'd like to run now — so you're never surprised by a flood of catch‑up work. You can Run or Skip each one (or all at once), and a given missed run is only ever offered once.

See what a task did

Each task card shows its last status and a link to the session from its most recent run — click it to open that conversation and see exactly what Harriet did. Use Run on a task to trigger it immediately.

Manage tasks

Edit a task by asking Harriet (for example, "change the inbox summary to 8am"), or remove it from the Automations list. Removing a task stops all future runs.