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New: "Remind me"

If you have looked for script offers in one of the subreddits where they are posted, you may be familiar with people using the comments to invoke a bot designed to "remind me in X days", at which point they will be sent a message. Although convenient for them, it is also distracting for writers and ends up spamming their inbox with bot commands instead of feedback or actual reactions. (Writers can theoretically turn off notifications but then also miss out on actual feedback and questions, so this is a bad idea.)

scriptbin already has a function to let you save an interesting script, so as an experiment, there is now a function to add a reminder to a saved script. You pick a time period after which you will be reminded - at that point, the quick button in the top right changes from "📌 Saved" to "⏲️ Saved", to indicate that something has happened. On the Show saved scripts page, all saved scripts where a reminder is due are shown in a separate list at the top. To "silence" the reminder, go to the script and click the button to silence the reminder.

You can also, for any reminder, whether it is due or not, re-set the reminder to a new time. "Unsaving" also removes the reminder.

Reminders complements saved scripts nicely since you can also set a description to remind yourself of what was interested about the script. And the ability to show all saved scripts gives you a good overview. Hopefully, this will cut down a bit on the "remind me" comments.