Reminders
Ask the bot to nudge you later — in a duration, at a clock time, on a date, or at a timestamp somebody pasted into chat.
A reminder is a note to yourself with a time attached. You tell the bot when and what, it says nothing until then, and at that moment it delivers the note back to you. Nothing about it is server-wide: your reminders are yours, nobody else can list them, and they follow you rather than the channel you set them in.
Reminders are free, and every form below works on both surfaces. On prefix the command is
,reminder — ,remind, ,remindme and ,reminders all reach the same
place — and on slash it is /remind.
Set one
,remind 30m take the bread out
,remind 1h30m stand up and stretch
/remind me when: 9pm text: call mum backThe reply tells you exactly when it will fire, rendered as a live Discord timestamp — so it counts down on its own, and it reads in your local time rather than whoever set it. That matters more than it sounds, and the next section is why.
The ways to say "when"
Five, and they can be typed in any of them without a flag or a keyword.
A duration. 30s, 10m, 2h, 3d, 1w. These can be combined, largest unit first:
1h30m, 2d12h, 1w2d. Writing them the other way round (30m1h) is refused rather than
quietly reordered, because guessing which one you meant is worse than asking.
A clock time. 9pm, 9:30am, 21:00. If that time has already gone today, it means tomorrow.
A day word. today, tonight, tomorrow — on their own, or with a time after them
(tomorrow 9am).
A date. mar 4, march 4, 3/4, or a weekday name like friday. A date with no year means
the next one that hasn't happened yet.
A pasted Discord timestamp. If somebody posts <t:1789456000:F> in chat — the kind of
timestamp that renders as a date and adjusts to each reader's clock — you can paste it straight in
and the reminder fires at exactly that instant.
A bare date means 9am
tomorrow, mar 4 and friday with no time after them all resolve to 9:00 in the morning,
in your timezone. The bot does not keep that to itself: the confirmation shows the exact instant
it picked, so if 9am is not what you wanted you find out immediately rather than at 9am.
A time that has already passed is refused
,remind today 6am typed at lunchtime is not turned into tomorrow morning — it is refused, and so
is a pasted timestamp pointing at the past. today meaning today is the whole reason the word
exists; silently sliding it forward would make it a slower way of typing tomorrow.
Your timezone
Every clock time and every date is resolved in your timezone, not the server's and not UTC. The
bot reads the one you set with ,lf timezone — the same
setting the Last.fm commands use, so if you have already set it once you are done. If you never
have, times resolve in US Central.
Where it arrives
By default a reminder is sent to your DMs. You can ask for it in the channel instead:
/remind me when: 2h text: raid starts where: hereA closed DM does not lose the reminder
If the bot cannot DM you — because you have DMs from server members switched off — it falls back to the channel rather than dropping the note. And if it cannot deliver it at all, the reminder stays on the books and is tried again the next time the bot restarts, for up to a week. It is never quietly thrown away.
Snoozing
Every delivered reminder carries three buttons: 10m, 1h and 3h. Pressing one sets the same reminder again that far out, and the buttons disappear so it cannot be pressed twice.
They keep working after the bot restarts, and they keep working on an old message you scroll back to. If somebody else presses the buttons on a reminder delivered into a channel, nothing happens — they are yours.
Seeing and cancelling
,remind list shows everything you have outstanding, with
a live countdown on each and a link back to the message where you set it.
,remind remove cancels one. On prefix you pass the
number from the list (,remind remove 2); on slash, /remind remove offers your own reminders by
name, so you pick the one you mean rather than counting rows.
How many you can hold
Five at a time, or thirty with Boosting Premium — which is free, and only asks that you boost the support server. The limit counts reminders that have not fired yet, so it frees up on its own as they arrive.