A simple reminder in Telegram

    I would like to share my development, which, I think, will be useful to Telegram users .

    Many of us use it one way or another, or at least try to use reminders. There are many of them now: paid and free, mobile and desktop, complex and simple - as they say, for every taste.

    For me, the main requirement for such reminders is the ease of setting a reminder, in other words, the ability to enter a reminder in your own words. For example, “call your colleague back in 20 minutes” or “tomorrow at 15 to the tax office”. It is also important that the reminder is able to postpone reminders.

    I once looked for a similar reminder under Linux and, not finding it, I wrote it myself . And for Windows, I advised everyone on a similar XMinder program .

    Time has passed, there are more opportunities for the development and implementation of such reminders.
    And one of these features is Telegram bots.

    I thought it would be great to find a bot that would accept reminder requests written in its own words and send corresponding messages at the set time. But I did not find such a bot that would understand simple Russian, and wrote my own.

    The bot is called @remindmemegabot . Implemented in the Golang language using the tgbotapi and at libraries and deployed to a server running Linux.

    RemindMiMegaBot can work with time zones and understands commands written in simple words, for example:

    • call manager in 15 minutes
    • prepare report in an hour
    • check payment in two days
    • tomorrow at 10 to pay for services
    • Wednesday at 11:15 to the tax
    • prepare for the event Saturday night
    • at 8 pm finish the work
    • May 23 at 15-10 to the post office
    • 04.17.2018 at 9 to wish a colleague a happy birthday
    • every day at 18 home
    • every Wednesday at 17-30 for training
    • every May 30 anniversary gift


    Reminders can be delayed for 15 minutes, an hour, 2 hours, or any other time.


    It is especially convenient to use the bot on the Telegram desktop application.

    You can connect to the bot via the link https://telegram.me/remindmemegabot

    Update :
    04/25/2017 at 18:41 Moscow time, the bot was updated. Now it has become more stable.

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