Using Slack Reminders and User Groups to Prevent Forgetting Team Meetings and Tasks

Tadashi Shigeoka ·  Tue, June 25, 2019

This article introduces examples of using Slack’s reminder and user group features to prevent forgetting team meetings and tasks.

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Background: Team Members Tend to Forget Meetings

First, the background is that there are people who tend to forget team meetings. Personally, I don’t forget because Google Calendar notifications come, but there seem to be a certain number of people who won’t forget if Slack reminds them.

In such cases, combining Slack’s reminder feature with the user group feature and setting it up nicely within teams or projects is recommended.

Slack Configuration Steps

Create Slack User Group

In my case, I created a development team user group @devteam.

Set Slack Reminder

Example: Slack /remind to Notify @usergroup

/remind "定例始めます! https://zoom.us/j/xxxxxxxxxx @devteam" at 3:58PM every Thursday
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That’s all from the Gemba on using Slack’s /remind and user group features to avoid forgetting team meetings and tasks.