Wake me up in one hour
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Problem statement: get reminded to pick up the laundry after starting to wash it.
The most practical workflow is to yell to my Google Home: wake me up in one hour.
It feels silly to say wake me up in a context that does not involve getting out of bed, but it’s the most practical sentence in English at my fingertips.
It surely beats set an alarm at 15:00 β I do not want to think in terms of absolute time, I only care about relative time in this context.
Perhaps ring an alarm in one hour is a reasonable alternative, but the word “ring” is not too idiomatic to my taste in this context.
An alternative workflow is to use Clock.app on iOS. It surely works reliably, I could even ask Siri to do so. But I am already glued to my phone for various reasons, there is no need to make it even worse.