Create polls, todos and reminders from a button in the message box — no slash commands to remember. One ⊕ button, three short dialogs.
- ⊕ in every message box (channel and thread reply) → Poll, Todo or Reminder.
- Poll: a question and as many options as you need (+ Add option, up to 20), votes per person, anonymous votes, hide the creator, show results while voting, let everyone add options. The poll itself is a Matterpoll poll, so voting and results work exactly as before.
- Todo adds to your list, or sends it to a colleague, in the Todo plugin — with optional notes and a people picker.
- Reminder — built in, no other plugin needed:
- remind yourself, someone else, or the current channel;
- In 20 minutes, In 1 hour, Tomorrow at 9:00, Next Monday at 9:00 or any date and time, in the time zone from your Mattermost profile;
- repeat every day, every weekday (Mon–Fri) or every week — at the same local time, also across daylight-saving changes;
- personal reminders arrive as a DM from the Reminders bot with Snooze 20 min, Snooze 1 hour, Tomorrow 9:00 and Done; channel reminders are posted in the channel;
- a Reminders panel (bell icon in the app bar) lists every reminder you've set, with Delete.
| Poll | Reminder | Todo |
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- Mattermost 10.11 or later. Tested on 11.7 and 12.0 with the same build.
- For Poll: Matterpoll (tested with 1.9). For Todo: the Todo plugin (tested with 0.7.1). Without them, Reminder still works and the other two show a short "ask your admin" note.
Tip: Mattermost's built-in Remind (in every message's ⋯ menu) covers "remind me about this message"; Quick Create covers free-text, repeating and channel reminders.
- Download
dev.patika.quick-create-<version>.tar.gzfrom the latest release (SHA256SUMSis attached for verification). - System Console → Plugins → Plugin Management → Upload Plugin, choose the file, then
Enable. Plugin uploads must be allowed (
PluginSettings.EnableUploads).
Or with mmctl:
mmctl plugin add dev.patika.quick-create-<version>.tar.gz
mmctl plugin enable dev.patika.quick-createUsers may need to reload the app (Ctrl/Cmd + R) to see the ⊕ button. There is nothing to configure.
- Reminders are delivered by a job that runs once a minute, so they arrive within a minute of the chosen time. If the server was down, a missed one-off reminder arrives as soon as it is back; a repeating one is delivered once and then continues on schedule (no burst).
- Just before delivering, the plugin checks again that the creator is active, the recipient is active, and (for channel reminders) that the creator can still post there. If not, the reminder is removed and its creator gets a DM with the reason and the text.
- Limits: 200 reminders per person, 4,000 characters, at least 30 seconds and at most one year ahead. Reminders go to people only, not bots; channel reminders work in public and private channels.
- Mobile apps don't show plugin buttons, so reminders are created from the web or desktop app; they arrive on every device as usual.
The webapp adds the button, the dialogs and the panel. Poll turns the dialog into
Matterpoll's /poll "Question" "Option 1" "Option 2" … --settings command and runs it for you
(Matterpoll's own dialog is limited to three options; its command is not). Todo calls the Todo plugin's own
API. Reminders are stored in this plugin's key-value store; a cluster-safe job delivers due
reminders once a minute, claiming each one with a compare-and-set so it is delivered once even
with several app servers.
Reminders are stored on your own Mattermost server (the plugin's key-value store). The plugin sends nothing anywhere else.
Requirements: Node 24.21.0 (see .node-version), Go (see go.mod), Docker for the
end-to-end tests.
go test -race ./server/... # server unit tests
cd webapp && npm ci
npm run lint && npm run check-types && npm test # webapp unit tests
cd .. && make dist # → dist/dev.patika.quick-create-<version>.tar.gzEnd-to-end tests drive real Chrome against a throwaway Mattermost in Docker, with Matterpoll and Todo installed, and wait for the real minute job (about 3 minutes in total):
cd e2e && npm ci && npx playwright install chrome
MM_VERSION=11.7.11 ./scripts/start-server.sh # or 12.0.0, …
npx playwright test
npm run server:stopThe webapp is built to run unchanged on React 17, 18 and 19 (the server's own React is used at runtime). See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Releases are cut by pushing a v* tag; CI builds the plugin and attaches it to a GitHub
Release.
Apache License 2.0. Built on the Mattermost plugin starter template — see NOTICE. Made by Patika.