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Text Lindy, Anywhere

Your personal Lindy — texting reaches the Lindy that knows your email, calendar, and meetings. The Lindy your team shares lives in Slack channels.
Lindy works over both iMessage and SMS, so you can delegate to your AI assistant right from your phone. No app to install. No dashboard to check. Just text it and it’s done.

Getting Set Up

Add your phone number during signup and verify with a confirmation code. That’s it. Your verified phone also lets you call your Lindy, and have it call you. Lindy sends you your first message, already personalized with context from your email and calendar. Just text back.
If you skipped the phone number step during signup, you can add it anytime: click your workspace image at the top left, select Settings from the dropdown, and find it on the General settings page.

What You Can Delegate

Calendar & Meetings

  • Schedule a meeting: “Set up a 30-min call with Sarah next Tuesday”
  • Ask about past meetings: “What did we decide in last week’s standup?”
  • Prep for your next meeting: “Brief me on my 2pm meeting”

Email

  • Let someone know you’re running late: “Tell my next meeting I’ll be 5 minutes late”
  • Set up email alerts: “Text me when I get an email from [name]”
  • Search your inbox: “Find the last email from [name] about the proposal”

Quick Tasks

  • Summarize a link: Send a YouTube video or any URL and Lindy gives you the key points
  • Find contact information: “What’s [name]‘s email?”
  • Voice notes: Send a voice note and Lindy transcribes and acts on it. You can also turn voice notes into Notion pages (requires Notion to be connected via text)

Time & Priorities

  • Audit your time: “How did I spend my time this week?”
  • Prioritize your day: “What should I focus on today?”
  • React to changes: “My 3pm cancelled, what should I do with that time?”

Recurring Tasks

  • Daily briefings: “Send me a briefing every morning at 7am” (includes your calendar, important emails, weather, and news)
  • Reminders: “Remind me to follow up with [name] on Friday”
  • Standing instructions: “Every time I finish a meeting, send the notes to Slack”
An iMessage request to find 30 minutes with Mike and send the board deck. Lindy sends the deck and holds 3:00 PM, pending confirmation.Asked what was promised to Acme, Lindy answers that the launch is two weeks after sign-off and cites the Acme call.

Good to Know

The more you use Lindy, the better it understands your preferences, priorities, and communication style. Give feedback directly: “That draft was too formal” or “Always CC Becky on those.”
iMessage works on iPhone. SMS works on any phone. Lindy adapts to whichever you’re using.

Troubleshooting

Lindy stopped responding

If Lindy stops replying to your texts, try these two steps in order:
  1. Re-verify your phone number. Go to chat.lindy.ai, click your username in the top-left, select Settings → General, and delete the phone number shown there. Then re-enter your number and verify with the code Lindy sends you.
  2. Wake the assistant from your phone. Open chat.lindy.ai in your mobile browser, find your Lindy Assistant’s contact card, and tap “Start a conversation” to send a quick hello. That refreshes the contact and wakes the assistant back up.

Not receiving texts

If you’re not receiving text messages, ensure your Text message service is aligned with your device settings. To update this, in Lindy’s web UI, go to Settings → General → Text message service.
General settings showing Phone number and Text message service set to Auto (no preference)
The setting defaults to auto, but you can override it to match your mobile device. If you’re on Android and want to use RCS, open the Google Messages app, tap your profile picture, go to Settings → RCS chats, and turn on “Turn on RCS chats”.

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