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# Track commitments & tasks

Commitments made on WhatsApp have nothing behind them. They scroll away the moment the next message lands — no record, no follow-up. Perisclaw reads the natural flow of your conversations and quietly tracks what's owed, in both directions, then surfaces it before it slips.

## The three things that slip through

* **You promised something.** You told a client you'd send the deck by Friday — and Friday arrives with nothing to remind you.
* **Someone owes you.** A friend said they'd pay you back, a vendor said they'd confirm by Tuesday — and following up depends entirely on you remembering.
* **You were asked and never replied.** You're tagged in a group with a question, and it's buried under fifty messages before you get to it.

## How Perisclaw keeps track

There's no command to run and no special format to use. Perisclaw picks commitments up on its own:

* **It recognizes them in plain language** — both the explicit (*"I'll send the deck by 5 PM"*) and the implicit (*"Let me look into that"*), and in both directions: promises you make and promises made to you.
* **Each one becomes its own tracked item.** Nothing to log, nothing to remember.
* **Deadlines come from the message itself.** *"By EOD,"* *"tomorrow morning,"* and *"on Friday"* each set the right reminder in your timezone — you never pick a date.
* **It watches for completion.** Send the promised file or reply and Perisclaw sees the loop is closed, then resolves the item.
* **Overdue items get surfaced** in your next digest or your next interaction, so you can finish them — or send a quick status update — before anyone has to chase you.

![Perisclaw nudging you about a commitment: "You told +91 98765 43210 you'd send the deck by EOD yesterday. Still on your list? Or want me to draft a quick 'running late' reply?"](/files/xPcVjdcjksp2ECCQHoOm)

## Where this shows up

Perisclaw runs three daily digests — **morning, afternoon, and evening** — that round up your open commitments along with anything else outstanding. You don't go looking for them; they come to you.

![A morning digest in the self-chat with the day's meetings, a to-do list of open commitments, and the day's calendar](/files/WvMH0PYgew8YCPLfHT4x)

Outside the digests, you can pull the current picture any time from your [self-chat](/getting-started/using-perisclaw.md) — just ask:

* *"What have I committed to this week?"*
* *"Who is waiting for my reply?"*
* *"Who is yet to get back to me?"*

{% hint style="info" %}
Want a commitment to come back at a specific moment instead of in a digest? Ask for a reminder — see [Schedule reminders & messages](/what-perisclaw-can-do/schedule-reminders-and-messages.md). To stay on top of busy chats automatically, set up an [automated routine](/what-perisclaw-can-do/automated-routines.md).
{% endhint %}


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