Reminders in Teams Chats

Question

Hi there,

Is there a functionality that will allow me to send reminders for teams chats? Similar to the slack /remind
for example I want to send a reminder to a chat group about a specific task weekly.

Answer 1

Hi @HK, 

Thank you for your updates.

Since your workplace disable Workflow and third-party apps, you can try using the recurring event as a workaround:

• In the Calendar app in Teams, create a new meeting
• Make the title become the reminder, for example Reminder: Week report
• Set the Recurrence to Weekly on the specific day you need it and invite everyone in the chat to this meeting.
• You can also post your detailed reminder message in the meeting chat when it's scheduled.
• You can also use manual by using the Set delivery options (in the + button next to Send button in Teams chat) combining with @mentions to tag the groups or chat members.

Using Teams meeting as a workaround helps you easily set it to repeat the notification weekly or monthly based on your need and everyone will receive a notification pop-up at the scheduled time.

About the built-in /remind feature as Stack does, if this feature would improve your workflow, I encourage you to share your feedback directly with the Microsoft engineering team via Microsoft 365 Feedback Hub → Send Feedback and describe your suggestion in detail. Your input plays a vital role in shaping the future of Microsoft products.

Please understand that as community moderators, we may not have influence product design decisions and have limited access to internal development details, we’ll continue doing our best to support you within the scope of our responsibilities.     

Thank you for your understanding and corporation. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to reach out again. We're happy to help. 

Answer 2

Hi @HK, 

Thank you for posting your question from Microsoft Q&A forum. 

According to your concern, unfortunately Microsoft Teams does not have a built-in /remind command like stack for creating chat reminders.  

In Teams, there are two ways to use reminder feature: 

Option 1: Using dedicated Microsoft Teams Remind app 

• To use this app, go to the chat you want to send reminder, click the (+) button in next to the Send button > Get more apps 
• Type reminder in the search bar and get the Remind app by Moonbear Ventures

• Then when you click the (+) button again, Remind will appear as available app, click on it > Set reminder

• You can configure to set up reminders for every week, every month, etc or configure to use @mention the bot in a group chat or channel to set a reminder for everyone to see.

 

Option 2: Using workflow (more advanced for custom automation) 

• Find your group chat and click on the More options (…) in the right of the chat > Workflows > Workflow builder 
• Write your requirement in the box, for example Weekly reminder message

 

• Press Next > fill the necessary details when prompted > Configure the details based on your need

• There are users has done it successfully with Workflows, you can find their sharing via Schedule daily recurring messages in Teams chat channels | Microsoft Community Hub 

Hope this information will be helpful. Please let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.    

Thank you for your understanding and corporation. Looking forward to your response.

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