Telegram

Fluso has a Telegram bot for the times you are away from your Mac. Sign in once with your Fluso account, and the bot is the same Fluso you use on the Mac app, just over Telegram. The bot only works in private chats. One Telegram account, one Fluso. It will not work in group chats.

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Find the bot in the Mac app

The easiest way to get to the bot is from inside Fluso:

1. In the Fluso Mac app, click your name at the bottom left.
2. Pick Settings from the menu.
3. Scroll to the bottom of Settings. You will see a Telegram panel with a QR code and an Open Telegram button.
4. Scan the QR code with your phone, or click Open Telegram if Telegram is already on your computer.

Either way, you land in a private chat with @fluso_bot. That is the bot.

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Sign in

Once you are in the chat with @fluso_bot:

1. Send /login.
2. Tap the Sign in button the bot sends back.
3. Finish signing in to Fluso in your browser.
4. Telegram opens again and the bot confirms you are signed in.

You will get signed out after a while. If the bot ever asks you to sign in again, send /login once more.

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Connect your apps

Before Fluso can read your Gmail, post in your Slack, or open issues for you, it needs to be connected to those apps. You only have to do this once per app. Connections you make here on Telegram are shared with the Mac app, so you do not have to set them up twice.

• /connect shows the list of apps you can connect.
• /connect <app> connects an app by name. Try /connect google, /connect github, /connect slack, or /connect linear.

When you connect Google, you get all of Google in one go: Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Meet, and Tasks. You do not need to connect Gmail or Calendar separately. /status tells you what is connected right now. /disconnect removes a connection. /apps shows the full list of apps you can connect.

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What to ask

Once you are signed in and have at least one app connected, ask in plain English.

“Summarise my unread Gmail from today.”

“Find the latest issue assigned to me in Linear.”

“Search Slack for the deployment thread from yesterday.”

“Read this document and pull out the key numbers.”

“Use this voice note as my instruction.”

If you ask for something that needs an app you have not connected yet, the bot will say so. Send /connect <app> and ask again. Before Fluso sends anything for you (an email, a Slack message, a new issue), it shows you the draft and waits for your yes. Nothing goes out without your approval.

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Files, images, voice

You can send more than just text:

• Files and documents — Fluso saves them and reads them for you.
• Images — same thing. Fluso can look at the picture and answer questions about it.
• Voice or audio — Fluso treats it as your instruction. The reply may come back as voice or as text.
• Video and video notes — these work too.
• Animated and video stickers — these are not supported.

Very large files may not go through. If a file is rejected, send a smaller version or split it into parts.

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Conversation controls

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While Fluso is working

A long answer may arrive as a few Telegram messages in a row instead of one big message. Any files Fluso creates for you will arrive as attachments. If Fluso is still starting up, the bot will say so and ask you to try again in about a minute.

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Troubleshooting

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