Build a Slack Reminder Todo App

This app allows you to create, list, and clear reminders from your Slack workspace using a slash command. It will also send a list of incomplete reminders every morning at 9am PST!

Airtable Base Setup

It uses Airtable both to store the reminders and as a secondary way to manage and view them. You will need to clone a copy of the premade base to your own Airtable workspace by clicking here. The base is conveniently set up with a Kanban view for easy management.

Adding Reminders

Slack reminders you create sync with your Airtable base

To add a reminder, run /cmd todo add. This will call the open method in the slack.views API on Autocode. That method opens a modal with a view prompting you to add a name and some reminder notes. This app creates the view with a callback_id parameter set to create-reminder, which is how Autocode maps it to the view_submission handler in your project.

Pressing the Save button submits the view and calls the aforementioned view_submission handler. This handler parses out the provided values for the reminder, then calls the insert method in the airtable.query API to insert the record into your Airtable base with the proper status (as well as storing the id of the user who first created the reminder).

On completion, you'll receive an ephemeral message letting you know that you've successfully created the reminder:

Confirmation your Slack reminder has been created

Listing Reminders

You can see a list of incomplete reminders by running /cmd todo. This will also tag the creators of any incomplete reminders if they were created via Slack.

A Slack meessage with a list of your reminders pulled from Airtable

Completing Reminders

Once you've completed a task related to a reminder, you can mark reminders as complete by running /cmd todo complete <reminder name>. This command is case-sensitive, and you'll need the exact reminder name, which you can get via /cmd todo list.

Reminder: You can also manage reminders by changing fields in your Airtable base as well!

That's it!

Thanks for checking out this App! Follow the Autocode team on Twitter @AutocodeHQ for updates. If you have any questions, please join our community Slack channel - you can get an invite from under the community tab in the topbar of this page.