The above messages are ambiguous even to human users let alone a bot. remind me to book tickets for the movie tomorrow at 2pm remind me to email the report at 10.20am at 10.10am It is not readily apparent why the message should go inside double quotes until you want to set up a potentially ambiguous reminders such as the following. remind me to “book tickets for the movie” tomorrow However, it is a good idea to put the message in quotes to avoid ambiguity. We have seen examples above of what kind of messages you can ask to be reminded of and where it is placed in the instruction. remind me to pay my credit card bill on the 5th of every month remind me to leave work at 5pm every Friday remind me to get lunch at 1pm every weekday remind me to take a walk at 1:30pm on 22nd September remind me to take a walk tomorrow at 10am You can ask to be reminded in the long term.

You can mention time the reminder needs to be sent in both relative and absolute terms. remind #dev-team to fill in the survey form in 10 mins You can also set reminders for the whole channel (e.g. remind to fill in the survey form in 10 mins In a similar way, you can set reminders to other people (e.g. So you could ask the Slackbot to remind you to do some task in say 30 mins by saying remind is a slash command (a special type of message that is treated differently from a regular message) that tells Slackbot to create a reminder. You will need to type this instruction/command in the message box just as you would send a message to your teammate.

Let us take a look at how to use the above instruction. The general format of the instruction is, Here is how you setup a reminder on Slack. SlackBot will understand their instructions and remind them or someone else at the appropriate time. Using the /remind command, users can give remind instructions to an automated agent called the SlackBot. One such task is to remind users to do specific tasks at specific times. On this platform, there are automated assistants that can do useful tasks to make work easy and productive for the whole team. On Slack, you can organise communication between team members using channels and direct messages. About 60,000 teams across the globe are using Slack to talk to team members. Slack is a popular messaging channel for teams.

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