Function for sending a countdown to channel or person
I suggest adding a feature that sends a countdown to a channel or person (a line of text that counts down to a specific time).
In it's simplest from it would just be a command like /countdown [minutes] [description] that would add a line of text to the chat which would continuously be updated to count down.
Just a simple countdown is the main reason for this idea but it can be built upon further and improved in many ways such as:
* Popup with a date/time selector
* Link that let's you add the countdown to your calendar
* Count up function for times in the past (or expired countdowns)
* Clicking save on a countdown could add a notification when it expires
* Countdown only visible to you (reminder)
* Graphical way to indicate that a countdown has expired
* Share countdown with other channels or people (some way to quickly copy it)
* Recurring countdown (when it expires it starts counting down to the next occurrence)
* Tab to keep track of multiple countdowns
Andreas
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Vitor Hugo H. Cid
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Is there a way to have a countdown timer in a MS Teams meeting? So when you are in an active session, people can see how much time is left for that session helping the facilitator / speaker / timekeeper.
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Glen de Marcos
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Very helpful feature! Having to use ad bloated websites :(
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Melissa H
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Was looking for a countdown function in Teams for some joint projects. Would be helpful.
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Matt
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In an international company, countdown time would help global teams know, regardless of timezone, how long left in their timezone until a change or event was occuring.
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sam petrie
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I was just looking for this... great idea for letting them know timescale on their online courses
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Rochelle Ireland
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It would be great to have this as a countdown to exams to keep students motivated to work.
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Mike Mayo
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Was jokingly looking for a teams countdown for a team lunch but now that I think about it some sort of "days left" functionality would be useful for things like sprint endings, deployments, etc..
In Slack we had SlackBot remind us periodically of upcoming deadlines...
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Anonymous
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Until a moment ago I hadn't come across a use for this. Now I need something that counts down to a launch in Teams - would welcome this type of addin