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Plain-English automations

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Plain-English automations

You don’t have to hand-write YAML to set up an automation. Lettuce can take a sentence in plain English and turn it into a working trigger, schedule, or digest — you just describe what you want and confirm the result.

Where

Open Settings → AI → Automations. Type what you want in the box, for example:

Click Create…. Lettuce sends your sentence to your configured AI model, which turns it into a concrete schedule, trigger, or digest. The proposed automation is shown to you first — you confirm it before anything is saved. Once saved, it syncs to the iPhone app too, so it runs and is editable from your phone.

It uses your own model

The plain-English creator works with any model you’ve configured — an online one (Claude, GPT) or a local one. It doesn’t need a special provider.

If no AI model is set up yet, Lettuce tells you to choose a provider first. You do that in the same Settings → AI screen.

It’s just a friendly front-end

The creator doesn’t introduce a new kind of automation. Everything it produces is one of the same building blocks you can author by hand:

So if the generated automation is almost right, you can save it and then fine-tune the underlying triggers.yml / schedule directly. The plain-English path is there to get you started fast; the hand-authored files are always the source of truth.