Slack Notebot

A meeting notes bot to help take and distribute notes.

Starting the bot

Create Slack Bot API token at: https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot (See https://api.slack.com/bot-users for additional info)

Run bot.py with the SLACK_API_TOKEN environment variable set:

bash $ SLACK_API_TOKEN='xxxxxxx' python bot.py

Using the bot

Private message the bot with the words start.

Start typing meeting notes. Users that are @mentioned will be remembered and sent a transcript of the notes at the end of the session.

Type finished to end the notes session.

This is what a typical notes session might look like:

Warnings

The bot just stores incoming meeting notes messages unencrypted into memory. Buyer beware.