Most Useful Use Cases
1.) Fan Coordination for Niche Interests: For obscure games or media (e.g., "XONOTIC"), high-RDV days can prompt spontaneous group sessions every few weeks, months, or even years, without needing calendars or servers.
2.) Media Reconsumption and Group Watches: Assign RDVs to movies, books, or videos (e.g., "SHREK_2001") for synchronized rewatches. RDVT adds timing for live streams or premieres, useful for content creators scheduling events at pseudorandom but shared times.
3.) Remembrance and Appreciation Days: Create special days for artists, events, or personal milestones (e.g., "YEAR_2000" or "HARRY_POTTER_SMOKES_WEED_Cdfkq2Nmb3c"). This could extend to historical events or personal tasks, providing a lightweight alternative to traditional calendars.
4.) Personal Reminder Systems: Integrate into apps or browser extensions to notify users about bookmarks or to-do items probabilistically, reducing notification fatigue. For instance, a threshold of RDV ā„ 2 ensures infrequent but timely prompts.
5.) Live Events and Scheduling: With RDVT, coordinate real-time activities like video calls or streams at exact UTC times on reminder days. This is especially useful for global teams or communities avoiding time zone conflicts.
A very interesting idea!
But Iām curious, are there any real-world examples of probabilistic reminders being used? I can imagine that the vast majority of people would prefer a more deterministic schedule, but I'd love to learn more.
I have done extensive research and concluded that there are no probabilistic reminder systems that exist in the wild. There are absolutely instances where a more cyclical, deterministic, and traditional reminders might work better. The power and reason I created RANDEVU is to allow anyone in the whole world who chooses to adopt it to get reminders about the things they are interested in at the same exact time as everyone else. And each person can choose how often they would like to be reminded of any given thing (ranging from daily to infinitely rarely).
Imagine a YT video you (and a bunch of other people) really like. We could make a YT extension that would feature a premiere of the video at certain intervals, let's say you put opt in for every 256-ish days (RDV8 aka 2^8). This would allow every single fan of that same video (if they added it to their list) to be able to watch it live with live chat again at the same time as everyone else. The system not only decides which days are "special feature" days for things, but there's also a functionality that decides the intraday time (down to the nanosecond), and there are even infinite times ranked by importance, so you can always find one that works for you.
The system can be used to feature forgotten threads, games, movies, or literally anything people might care about. I'm really sorry if all this sounds abstract, and I know I suck at explaining things.
If you are interested in learning more, there are 2 possibilities:
1.) If you love AI or are at least AI agnostic - ask the AI about any aspects you would like to know more about, or would like to see explained better, or even about potential use cases (AI is so much better at this than I am)
2.) If you hate AI - I'm really sorry for suggesting it. Try to read the readme yourself, or ask me anything you would like to know, and I will do my absolute best to explain it personally.