Reminders that speak your language
- Trigger
- ⏰:alarm_clock:
- Lands in
- The channel or DM you chose
- Setup
- 1 min
- Needs
- Via invited to the channel
Reminder for @samuel
You asked to be reminded about the retro
- Set
- Tuesday, 4:12 PM
- Fires
- Friday, 3:00 PM
Scheduled in the workspace timezone, so 3pm means 3pm for the team.
Add the alarm clock reaction to any channel message. Viably replies in the thread asking when you would like to be reminded.
Answer in plain language, whether that is “in 3 days”, “2 weeks”, or “at 3pm Friday”. There is no special syntax to learn and no AI round-trip, because the time parser handles it directly.
At the chosen time, Via posts the reminder back to the conversation and tags you, with the original message as context.
In chat, say something like @Via remind this channel about the retro at 3pm Friday and Via schedules it for you, which is handy when you want to remind a whole channel rather than yourself.
Say when in plain English
The reminder time is parsed directly from your words, so relative durations and clock times both work. All reminders are resolved against your workspace timezone, so “3pm” means 3pm where your team is.
Where a reminder shows up
A reminder can target a whole channel and show up on the shared agenda, so it does more than ping one person.
Remind yourself, or ask Via to remind an entire channel. The reminder posts where it is relevant, with the source message linked.
Connect the Calendar power and turn on reminder mirroring, and your reminders also land on the shared team calendar, appearing in the /calendar agenda alongside events, tasks, and issues. It stays off until you switch it on, because the calendar is shared and a mirrored reminder is readable by every connected member.
Reminders are available to every workspace by default, so there is no power to switch on before your team can use the alarm clock.
React with the alarm clock emoji on any message, then reply with when you want it. Viably reads phrases like “in 3 days” or “at 3pm Friday” directly, so there is no command syntax to memorise.
Yes. A reminder can target the channel it was created in, which is how teams use it for standups, deadlines, and the follow-up everybody agreed to in a thread and would otherwise forget.
Your workspace timezone, set once in General settings, so a reminder for 3pm means 3pm for the team rather than for whichever server handled it.
In your own agenda, yes: /calendar brings reminders together with events, tasks, and issues, so one view covers everything you are on the hook for. Putting them on the shared team calendar where colleagues can read them is a separate opt-in, off until you turn on reminder mirroring in the calendar settings.
Set your first reminder with a reaction. Reminders are on by default for every workspace, with no power to enable first.
Add Viably to Slack