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Managing your scheduled reminders

Get reminders in Slack when you or your team have pull requests waiting for review.

Creating scheduled reminders for your personal account

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.

  2. In the "Integrations" section of the sidebar, click Scheduled reminders.

  3. Next to the organization you'd like to schedule reminders for, click .

    Screenshot of the settings for a personal account showing the name of a GitHub organization. An edit button with a pencil icon is outlined in orange.

  4. Under "Slack workspace", click Authorize Slack workspace and follow the instructions.

  5. Under "Days", click Weekdays to select one or more days you'd like to receive scheduled reminders.

  6. Under "Times", click 9:00 AM to select one or more times you'd like to receive scheduled reminders. Optionally, to change your timezone, click next to your current timezone and select a different time zone.

    Screenshot of Scheduled reminder options used to select the hour and time zone for reminders. 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM are checked in the open hours menu.

  7. Optionally, to receive scheduled reminders for reviews you've been assigned to, select Review requests assigned to you.

  8. Optionally, to receive scheduled reminders for reviews assigned to a team you're a member of, select Review requests assigned to your team.

  9. Optionally, to receive Slack messages as soon as certain events happen, select Enable real-time alerts and select the events to receive real-time alerts for.

  10. Click Create reminder.

  11. Optionally, to test your reminder, click .

Managing scheduled reminders for your personal account

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.

  2. In the "Integrations" section of the sidebar, click Scheduled reminders.

  3. Next to the organization you'd like to edit scheduled reminders for, click .

    Screenshot of the settings for a personal account showing the name of a GitHub organization. An edit button with a pencil icon is outlined in orange.

  4. Make one or more changes to your scheduled reminder.

  5. To save your changes, click Update reminder.

  6. Optionally, to test your reminder, click .

Deleting scheduled reminders for your personal account

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.

  2. In the "Integrations" section of the sidebar, click Scheduled reminders.

  3. Next to the organization you'd like to delete reminders for, click .

    Screenshot of the settings for a personal account showing the name of a GitHub organization. An edit button with a pencil icon is outlined in orange.

  4. At the bottom of the page, click Delete this reminder.

  5. To confirm that you want to delete the scheduled reminder, click OK.