Find Helpful Bots to Improve Your Life With Botlist
Messaging services like Slack and Facebook Messenger are just a few places where you can play with bots, programs that provide services in an app or platform. With Botlist, you can find a bot that suits your needs for a variety of services, including bots that will cut travel time by a few seconds, help convert files, and stick to your diet by helping document your meals.
Forksie
Chat bot Forksy, compatible with the Facebook Messenger, Viber and Telegram, acts as a food diary, offering you to catalog your culinary preferences. Forxi starts off by asking you a few questions to gauge the right calorie limit for your body.
Every few hours you will receive a message from Forxi asking what you ate or drank. It stores all of your choices in its food diary and has an optional “mentoring” feature that allows you to speak with a qualified nutritionist.
Poncho
Using a poncho in the weather service means you can check on the current forecast inside Slack, Facebook Messenger, Kik and Viber. Just ask him about the weather, enter your zip code and get an instant weather summary in one sarcastic sentence.
Poncho has a few more tricks. You can ask him what kind of hair day you will have, depending on the weather, or get an hourly forecast for the next six hours. If you are a New Yorker, you can ask him the status of any train line you want so that you quickly find out if there is a delay that is causing you to be stuck in bad weather instead of your cozy office.
Calbot
With Calbot, you can add events to your calendar directly from your Slack channel or email service. It supports Google and Microsoft calendars and can handle multiple calendars if you have one. You can add appointments and tasks to other calendars by adding the name of your calendar to your request.
In addition to adding events, you can add reminders to your calendars, list events of any day or week, and add locations and email addresses. If you’re a traditionalist, Calbot works through your email, so you can submit your event or request a schedule by email and ask Calbot to add them to your calendar.
Vidibot
Vidibot makes converting videos as easy as pasting a link. Facebook Messenger bot returns MP4 and MP3 download links for any YouTube or Facebook video link you provide. Vidibot provides downloadable links in just a few seconds. I was able to download a 13 minute YouTube video in less than 5 minutes after sharing the link with the bot.