A daily update is a short check-in meeting that helps teammates stay informed about the work they’ve done each day. Synchronous daily updates can be difficult to schedule and often last too long or disrupt teammates in the middle of their tasks, so many teams opt to hold asynchronous ones instead.
With Geekbot, you can create a daily update to send automatically to your team members each weekday at 10:00 a.m. You can also choose from a set of prefilled templates for specific use cases (e.g., “What have you done since yesterday?”). You can edit these questions to suit your team’s needs.
Daily updates are available on Android and iOS devices (iOS devices must have the Assistant app installed). They’re not currently supported on voice-activated speakers or other surfaces.
To configure daily updates, create an update intent and define it as a triggering intent in your Action package. Make sure the associated scene is configured to auto-preview changes (instructions differ depending on your chosen development tool).
When users invoke one of your update intents, they receive an Assistant notification that allows them to subscribe to the daily updates feature. If they do, the daily updates registration prompt appears as a suggestion chip when they finish their conversation with your Action. To personalize their daily updates, you can add custom parameters when users register them. These parameters are then referred to when the daily update is fulfilled, resulting in personalized content for each user.