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I've had this exact setup for nearly a decade. Sometimes Slack (or Google Chat) ends up on desktop four. It really cuts down on distractions.
It’s cool to see others have ended up with similar setups. Desktop four started as either a vm or vnc/rdp client for software that wouldn’t run locally. So that’s why it remains as the catch-all.
A person that is in a hurry will call you. It will not send a message.
Not related to slack, but managing your ADHD symptoms. Look into a low oxalate diet, it really helped me and my children. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21911305/ https://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/articles-1/2015/11/13/... https://korunutrition.com/autism-low-oxalate-diet/ https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vegetarianism-and...
Interesting links, thanks! (in case it helps anyone else...) About half a year ago I discovered that a brutally low carb diet -- leading to being in ketosis -- drastically helped my ADHD as well as other mental health things I've struggled with for my entire life. I wish I knew earlier!
After 3 days of it, I felt very focused and got done a bunch of stuff I was procrastinating for months.
I thought this was a coincidence.
Not related to slack, but managing your ADHD symptoms. Look into a low oxalate diet, it really helped me and my children. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21911305/ https://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/articles-1/2015/11/13/... https://korunutrition.com/autism-low-oxalate-diet/ https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vegetarianism-and...
Interesting links, thanks! (in case it helps anyone else...) About half a year ago I discovered that a brutally low carb diet -- leading to being in ketosis -- drastically helped my ADHD as well as other mental health things I've struggled with for my entire life. I wish I knew earlier!
* Slack goes to the separate small monitor, not the big “work” monitor. Expense one up if you don’t have one.
* Sure thing, close Slack up from time to time. It might help to assign yourself some “office hours” (look at slack after lunch)
* Slack strength (its immediacy) is also its weakness (low permanency). Anything older than a week is forgotten. So- rejoice! Your backlog has just reduced to the last week, tops.
* You can mute with granularity: channels, people and threads. Mute away. Remove yourself from the “team” mentions. Remove yourself from “@here” mentions.
As an engineer I would make the tickets only exist in the ticket tracking system that's not on slack. Communicate over there.
I don't know about other roles.
What's wrong with this?
Also, learn to mute channels we have thousands too, I'm in about 20-50 at a given time between pruning. Out of those I only keep important, low noise channels unmuted.
I don’t have ADHD but I get very distracted by Slack. Here’s what worked for me. 1. Slack app uninstalled on my phone. If I need it for something, I install it, use it, then delete again. 2. Slack app on my laptop fully closed by default. 3. Set times (about 5 a day) to check in and respond to notifications and scan channels. When I was a senior manager with lots of actually important messages these blocks were about…