The checkup you keep postponing
Reminders to schedule overdue checkups and appointments, tracked until they actually happen
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Two appointments are overdue, and one more comes due in December.
- Dental cleaning: it was due in September, six months after your last visit in March.
- Annual checkup: it was due in August, a year after your last one.
- Eye exam: it comes due in December, two years after your last one.
Each one stays on this list until it appears on your calendar.
The problem
Preventive care runs on intention: the annual physical that is now biennial, the dentist cleaning eighteen months ago, the eye exam from a previous decade.
Nothing is technically wrong, so nothing forces the appointment. The reminder letter gets recycled and the years accumulate.
What it does
This routine tracks your overdue health appointments and nudges you to schedule them: checkups, cleanings, screenings, all the maintenance a body needs.
It keeps the list current and the nudge regular, until the appointment exists in reality instead of intention.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every month remind me of any health checkups or appointments I'm due for
Why make it a routine?
A skill in an AI chat app can approximate this, if you remember to ask. Copy in your calendar, paste the thread, wait, then carry the answer back out of the chat tab.
Littlebird already has the context: your meetings, your inbox, your calendar, and what was on your screen. The routine runs on schedule whether you remember or not.
It is the same idea without the choreography: the report lands in Littlebird or your inbox instead of a chat window you have to babysit.
Frequently asked questions
Is this medical tracking?
It tracks appointments, not health data: whether the checkup happened, not what it found.
How does it know what is overdue?
From your calendar history and the cadences you set in the prompt.
Will it book for me?
It nags; you book. The phone call remains a human art form.
What if my machine runs Windows?
Then you are covered. Mac and Windows are both supported.
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Put Littlebird to work
Littlebird is free to start, and your routines also work on the web, iPhone and Android
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