Back after a few hours awayYou/summary 3h
KeeperBotsLast 3 hours — 96 messages
• The venue is booked for the 24th; Sam sent the deposit.
• Pricing: the group leans towards the cheaper plan, but nobody has signed off.
• Dana asked who is bringing the projector — no answer yet.
The quick way
Add a summary bot to the group once. After that, anyone who has been away types /summary and gets the last 24 hours in a single message — the topics, the decisions and the loose ends.
Been gone longer? /summary 2d or /summary 7days. Only need the last hour? /summary 1h. Want to know what one person said? /summary @name.
Catch up privately
Nobody needs to see you asking. Message the bot directly and /summary works there too — it answers about your group, to you alone, and nothing shows up in the chat.
Or don't ask at all
The bot also posts one summary every night at a time the group chooses, so the people who never type a command still know what happened today.
The honest limit
A bot can only summarize messages from after it joined — Telegram does not let bots read older history. The same is true on Discord.
The KeeperBots bot, which you can add in one tap, already has privacy mode off.
On Telegram you also have to switch the bot's privacy mode off in @BotFather, or it never sees ordinary messages at all; on Discord the equivalent is the Message Content intent. Setup checks both for you.
Do I need to be a group admin?+
To add the bot, yes, or ask an admin to. To use /summary, no — any member can.
Does this work on Discord too?+
Yes. /summary, /ask, /stats and the nightly summary all work the same in a Discord server, as typed commands or from the slash command picker.
Will it spam the group?+
No. Its own posts are capped at one every ten minutes, answers when someone talks to it are limited per person, per hour and per day, and a group owner can pause it with one switch.