Remind Me Command

[graywolf336]

I'll admit, I forget things very very quickly. As a result of that, I use the /remind me command quite often. Maybe this is a command for Hubot but would be neat to have built into the core.

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[rodrigogs]

How would be the command syntax?

My idea is:

/remind <user> <when> <message>

• If <user> arg is 'me', it should understand that its a self reminder
• <when> arg could be something like https://github.com/rainder/human-to-cron
• We could wrap <message> with ``, so we can deal with <when> dynamism

/remind list

Lists all reminders created by and for me

/remind help

Shows help

What do you think?

[rodrigok]

My ideia:

/remindme message
/remind @user message
/remind list
/remind remove 123

Reminders with date and time could be complex because we need some place to alert user about the reminder.

This looks good for a initial implementation

[jclabaugh]

https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/blob/master/src/scripts/remind.coffee

[geekgonecrazy]

We could for sure use that as a reference :)

But wouldn't be able to use it. Simply because we already have a slashcommand handler in place.

[graywolf336]

@jclabaugh That syntax reminds me a lot of Slack's remind me command. Good find

[rodrigok]

I liked

/remind me to <message>
/remind <@user> to <message>

and let time to after?

[graywolf336]

I've always used it as:

/remind me on <date> at <time> to <action>

But I can see the <@user> being useful instead of me.

[curioussavage]

@rodrigok you might already know this but in response to your comment above about a place to notify the user, in slack the bot just private messages you. I would love this feature.

Also btw, awesome project guys, I remember reading about his project in the meteor forum when it just started, its coming along very well.

[com-ethode-jables]

I would love this feature as well. It's something I use daily with Slack.

Slack's documentation on how this works is available here: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/208423427-Setting-reminders

E.g. /remind me every Friday to review invoices or /remind #super-awesome-project every weekday at 4:30 PM to log project hours for the day, etc.

[pierreozoux]

I don't think this should be a core feature, you can find already a lot of scripts doing this:

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=hubot+remind

[geekgonecrazy]

Yeah... it might be adding un-needed complexities to the core. Because we'll need to then use some sort of cron type process to keep track of all the reminders.

[giggio]

This is a core feature. I would like to be reminded to read later a certain message, for example. The slash command is just one expression of it.

[Eh1k0]

Pretty nice feature.
As commands are already there.

[JAndrew77]

I know that managers of companies appreciate this feature very much, can assign tasks to their employees and to have feedback of their progress, boss will decide to adopt a free Slack alternatives only if this feature will be implemented. Think about it.

As described by @com-ethode-jables

Slack's documentation on how this works is available here: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/208423427-Setting-reminders

[stepek]

I'll work on this feature.

[borisschapira]

@stepek my hero.

[lukasredev]

@stepek are there any updates from you side?
Just asking, because I would love to see this feature implemented and would be willing to help you out.

[JSzaszvari]

There are literally hundreds of hubot scripts which do exactly this.. The devs should be working on core features and bug fixes, not reinventing something that is already out there.

[TwizzyDizzy]

@rocket-cat close

... what @JSzaszvari said.

Cheers
Thomas

[timkinnane]

Added this as a proposal to #10174 - as suggested, it's a solved issue, but might make a good bot building tutorial case.

[saschafoerster]

Still missing this feature. And I tried several Hubot-scripts, which did not work.

[reetp]

Still missing this feature. And I tried several Hubot-scripts, which did not work.

https://rocket.chat/docs/getting-support/

I suggest the #bots channel

[murtaza98]

Hello All 👋 I'm quite excited to share my new Reminder app over here. It provides a solution to most of the issues mentioned over here. Check out this doc for more info about this app.

Also, feel free to reach out to me on any below-mentioned channels if you wish to share any feedback or suggestions or even criticism.

Open server of Rocket.Chat: https://open.rocket.chat/direct/murtaza.patrawala
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn

[saschafoerster]

@murtaza98 Is there a reason, why there is no public source code?
https://github.com/AddReminders/Reminders-in-RocketChat