Send a Direct Message to Someone in Google Chat
Initiate a one-to-one chat.
In Google Chat https://chat.google.com,while chatting with someone full-screen, click their name on top of the chat. Then select Add bots.
If you have minimized the chat, click the three dots icon on its top right and select Add bots.
Type something in the Enter name of bot field.
You will get suggestions of available bots right away.
After you click on a bot, click the Add button to add it to the chat.
Done, you added the bot as a chat participant. It sends an introductory help message with some helpful links that let you know what it’s for and where you can learn more about it.
You can now use specific commands to do things. You don’t have to remember the commands – just enter a forward slash / and a list of commands and bots you can add will appear.
Only you can see the / commands you use. The bot’s responses are visible in the chat.
To display the help message again, type @botname help, where botname is the bot’s name.
Initiate a one-to-one chat.
Confirm that you want to start a chat with someone requesting to chat with you.
View a one-to-one chat or space in a full-screen chat window, or minimize it.
Pin a chat to the top of your chats list or remove it from there.
Hide a chat from your chats list.
Delete a chat from your chats list, along with your copy of the chat history.
Turn history on or off to control the saving of chat messages.
Enable or disable notifications for a specific chat.
Add a bot to a direct one-to-one chat session.
Stop someone from ever chatting with you again.
Remove a bot from a direct one-to-one chat session.
Remove someone from your blocked people list to start chatting again.
Send direct messages to a bot.
Remove a bot from your chats list.
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