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Using the Reminders tab

The Reminders tab is the easiest way to manage reminders for yourself, in a chat or a channel. It enables you to create complex reminders, search, filter, edit and delete them. You are also able to customize Remind's default behavior in the settings area of your personal Reminders tab.

Installation​

Main features​

For a quick initial overview, you might want to watch the video 📺

Your personal Reminders tab and the one added to a chat or conversation offer much of the same features. You can:

  • Switch between different kinds of reminders (upcoming, recurring, past reminders)
  • Search for reminders by their reminder text or names of mentioned users
  • Modify, pause or delete reminders
  • Create new reminders with the scheduling interface

Use the Reminders tab to manage reminders for yourself or in a chat or channel

When adding the Reminders tab to a channel where you are the team owner, you will see additional options. For example, you can remove other user's ability to set reminders.

Set a new reminder​

Press the "Set a reminder" button and launch the scheduling interface.

Set a reminder for yourself with the scheduling interface

  • You have various formatting options available for the reminder text on top. When creating a link, please highlight the text first before you press the link button.
  • Set the reminder to occur at a future date and time. Overwrite the time field value if the defaults do not work for you. Press the globe icon to change the time zone.
  • If you would like to set a recurring reminder, select a "repeat" option. The date you selected above will then become the start date of the reminder.
Recurring reminders and the date field

You can reveal new options below the "repeat option" when you change the date field. For example: Change the "repeat" option to "every month" and change the date field value to various different dates to reveal options like "on the second Thursday of every month".

  • Press "Set reminder" to finish setting your reminder.

New reminders in chats or channels​

Watch video 📺

Set a reminder in a group chat or channel with the scheduling interface

Setting a reminder in a group chat or channel is largely similar to setting one in the personal Reminders tab, but there are a few key differences:

  • You can insert @mentions into the reminder text by pressing the @ button on top
  • Selecting the "announce" checkbox makes the app send a confirmation message to the conversation after you have set the reminder
  • Selecting the "completable" checkbox adds a "Mark as completed" button to the reminder when it occurs. When it's a reucrring reminder, only the current occurrence gets marked as completed. To stop a reminder from recurring, you have to delete it.
  • In channels you can select a checkbox to start a new conversation when the reminder occurs (similar to "in new convo" for typed reminders)
  • You can instruct the app to send the reminder in the 1:1 chat with the bot by pressing the checkbox at the bottom and selecting all users that should be reminded (similar to the @Remind @user "reminder text" syntax for typed reminders)