I just discovered Slack has reminders and it’s blowing my mind

Hey, everything! For today, try this technological tip, I focus on slack.

Slack is a program that has become an essential part of my working day. Unlike some chat programs, it is child’s play to navigate and share images and documents, and I really like how easy it is to fill messages with emojis. You can even create personalized. In my opinion, it is a cat experience that is close to what you get from RCS messaging on a mobile phone, but with the benefit of the channels, which makes it ideal for the office.

I have been using Slack for a while now and I thought I knew everything there was to know. But recently, a colleague told me about a feature that allows you to leave reminders in a timely manner, so that you get prompts from the dates and the times of your choice for the things you have to do.

I started using it to remind me of the future tasks I need to accomplish and colleagues I need to contact, but you can do much more with this feature than reminding you of something.

What to do:

To define a personal reminder in Slack, all you have to do is type /remindfollowed by what you want to remember. For example, you can use the order to wish a colleague a happy birthday for a date to come. In this case, you can type something like this: / Remind me on July 1 to wish Andrew Happy Birthday.

Alternatively, you can define a reminder by clicking on the subsequent tab (Pac-man upside down) in the left sidebar followed by the + sign in the upper right corner.

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In addition to personal reminders, you can also direct a reminder in the username of a colleague, the user group or a channel. You can even define recurring reminders with different sentences, so that you or the target of your recall reminds you at regular intervals, for example, “every day”, “every Tuesday”, “every weekend” or “every Friday at 9 am.”

Once you have properly entered a reminder, Slackbot de Slack will respond with quick confirmation that it will go forward and remind you. Reminders will appear in the window of the subsequent tab.

You will find below some examples of commands (which you are in no way limited to use). If you need more inspiration, you can find many examples online.

• / Remind me to deposit this article Wednesday at 10 a.m.
• / Remind me of a ping @brad about the newsletter in 4 hours
• / Recall # Team-Editorial Hey @ editorial-team what is it today? Every day of week at 9 a.m.
• / Recall # Office-Staff to clean the refrigerator every Friday at 3:00 p.m.

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