Rocket.chat: Remind Me Command

Created on 2 Sep 2015 · 22Comments · Source: RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

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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graywolf336

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I'll work on this feature.

stepek on 10 Apr 2017

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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` dynamism

/remind list

Lists all reminders created by and for me

/remind help

Shows help

What do you think?

rodrigogs on 8 Sep 2015

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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

rodrigok on 8 Sep 2015

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

jclabaugh on 10 Sep 2015

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.

geekgonecrazy on 10 Sep 2015

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

graywolf336 on 10 Sep 2015

I liked

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

and let time to after?

rodrigok on 10 Sep 2015

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.

graywolf336 on 10 Sep 2015

@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.

curioussavage on 8 Feb 2016

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.

com-ethode-jables on 17 May 2016

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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

pierreozoux on 8 Sep 2016

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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.

geekgonecrazy on 8 Sep 2016

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.

giggio on 11 Oct 2016

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Pretty nice feature.
As commands are already there.

0x6c on 17 Feb 2017

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

JAndrew77 on 28 Feb 2017

I'll work on this feature.

stepek on 10 Apr 2017

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@stepek my hero.

borisschapira on 10 Apr 2017

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@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.

lukasreichart on 28 Jul 2017

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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.