Onit: From inbox to actions

Onit is a reminder app that reads your Gmail. The bills, renewals, appointments, and follow-ups already in your inbox become reminders that nudge you until you act.

You never type a reminder. Your inbox already knows what needs doing; Onit just listens — and refuses to be ignored.

— Why Onit exists —

A real $8,000 insurance renewal email arrived in March. The negotiation window quietly closed thirty days later. By the time the invoice landed, the leverage was already gone.

The same pattern catches everyone, with different specifics: a contract that auto-renews on terms you'd negotiate if you'd only seen the email; a permit that expires; a follow-up someone is quietly waiting on. Apple Reminders couldn't catch any of these because (a) you have to know to type them in, and (b) one notification fires once and disappears. Onit is built so that mistake happens exactly once.

— How it works —

1. Connect Gmail with one tap. Read-only access. Onit cannot send, modify, archive, or delete a single email.
2. Onit watches your inbox in the background. A smart pre-filter ignores ~85% of email so most of it never gets read by AI at all.
3. When something actionable lands — a bill, a renewal, a contract, an appointment to confirm — Claude extracts just the structured fields: what needs doing, when it's due, and crucially when you should act.
4. You confirm. One tap. Onit learns from your dismissals to reduce false positives.
5. Onit nudges, escalating: weekly when the deadline is far, every three days as it approaches, daily when it's imminent. Quiet hours respected.
6. Mark Done from the notification — no app open required. Onit shuts up. Forever, for that reminder.

— What makes Onit different — INBOX-CONNECTED. You don't type reminders. They detect themselves. No other persistent-reminder app does this.

PERSISTENT. One reminder isn't a reminder; it's a hope. Onit escalates until you've acknowledged — not until you've swiped.

ACTION-WINDOW AWARE. Insurance renewals get a 30-day-before-due nudge, because that's the negotiation window. Software subscriptions get 7 days, because that's the cancellation window. Domain renewals get 14 days. Appointments get enough lead time to actually reschedule. Onit knows the difference.

— Privacy is the whole product —

Onit is "let me read your email" software. Trust is non-negotiable.

• Read-only Gmail scope. Cannot send, modify, archive, or delete mail. • Full email bodies are never stored. Only a 500-character snippet for context. • OAuth tokens encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM. • Anthropic's API terms forbid training on your email. We do not train models. Ever. • One-tap disconnect deletes everything within 24 hours. • No advertising IDs. No analytics SDKs.

Read the full policy at https://getonit.dev/privacy.

— What kinds of reminders Onit catches — Insurance renewals. Software subscriptions (Notion, Adobe, Figma, JetBrains, AWS). Streaming services (Netflix, Spotify, Disney+). Domain renewals (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare). Tax obligations. Loan payments. Medical bills. Contract renewals with notice periods. Rent. Memberships. Appointment confirmations. Follow-ups someone's waiting on. Anything that arrives in your inbox with an action attached. Onit pulls it out and won't let you forget it.

— What Onit is NOT — Not another to-do list (no manual entry — your inbox is the input). Not a bill tracker (bills are just one example; we catch any actionable email). Not a budgeting app. Not a bank-link aggregator. Not a negotiation bot. Not an email client. It's a single, sharp tool: catch the actionable email, surface the action window, refuse to be ignored.

— Pricing — Free tier: a small number of active reminders to try the system on real email. Pro: unlimited reminders and advanced features. Subscription billed monthly or annually via Apple. Cancel anytime in Settings.