# The Ray blog

> Writing on how teams actually track work in chat, each piece stating plainly what Ray does not do.

Source: https://heyray.io/blog

Writing from the team building Ray. These pages explain the terms teams use for their own work, and each one states plainly what Ray does not do.

- **What is a Slack bot? Three different things share the name** (https://heyray.io/blog/what-is-a-slack-bot.md), published 2026-08-26: Webhook, bot user, agent: what actually differs, and which one you want.
- **Slack reminders: what /remind can do, and where it stops** (https://heyray.io/blog/slack-reminders.md), published 2026-08-26: The commands Slack documents, the limits its own docs admit, and what to do about them.
- **Action items: a definition, examples, and why chat loses them** (https://heyray.io/blog/what-are-action-items.md), published 2026-08-25: The definition, the examples, and the reason chat-born action items go missing.