They keep saying it’s not email, but it looks a lot like email with preconfigured filters. What am I missing? What’s so mindful about this?
Twist – Mindful Team Communication
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Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication
#32Right off the bat, this has much better performance on my laptop than Slack; Slack really spins the fans. Also, that extra layer of organization provided by the thread column was needed badly. I personally was hoping for tags and tag-groups in Slack, but this should also do nicely. We have been using Slack as a UI for our backend services, for example, and it is a great way to present reports and alerts, and offer ba…
Curious: I've always used slack from a web browser rather than their native app. What, if anything, do you personally miss from the web app in slack?
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#33Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they've introduced threads, it's searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with…
Why not just use email? This was asked by a ton of people and we have addressed it here: https://help.twistapp.com/hc/articles/115003654589 Email is great and we are fans of it, but not for internal team communication.
allright, let´s play this game, from your help page:
> An email inbox is unorganized
> Email chains easily become long and difficult to read, and can splinter off into multiple chains
> when someone goes on vacation or leaves your team, progress grinds to a halt
> your email inbox is just one of many places where your team communicates.
[rehash of email is bad]
> On top of that, Twist gives your team the space to get deep work done by allowing you to snooze all notifications.
Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication
#34Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they've introduced threads, it's searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with…
"raw" email doesn't help much when someone new comes in to the project, and has no access to the previous emails. systems like these keep most of the ceremony of emails, but provide historical access.
Of course, you can set up email group systems with archiving and search in those, but... that's more work, now you may have multiple systems for people to have access to, etc.
systems like this are logical extensions of the ceremony of email with some added benefits.
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#35Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they've introduced threads, it's searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with…
I hate to say it but I concur... mostly. The idea that is different here is that it is an invite only system - meaning no spam. The first question that came up for me was 'who do I invite' - I had to think who in the team is an early adopter and would be receptive to trying something new. Then my next thought was to Hangouts them and tell them what I was doing so they did not see an invite for something unknown... th…
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Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication
#36Right off the bat, this has much better performance on my laptop than Slack; Slack really spins the fans. Also, that extra layer of organization provided by the thread column was needed badly. I personally was hoping for tags and tag-groups in Slack, but this should also do nicely. We have been using Slack as a UI for our backend services, for example, and it is a great way to present reports and alerts, and offer ba…
Curious: I've always used slack from a web browser rather than their native app. What, if anything, do you personally miss from the web app in slack?
Well, the native Slack app is just an Electron wrapper around their web app, as far as I can tell. The performance feels roughly the same for both web and desktop.
The main reason I kept the desktop app, is so that I don't need to "download" the app every time my browser's cached copy is invalidated or expires. But being able to start the app with a couple keystrokes from my OS's quick launch menu is also nice.
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#37Slack makes hard for companies to charge money for these apps. I think it is cool but probably not enough reason to make people to move. One thing that would make me consider it, if I could open multiple windows at the same time for example.
You can open multiple windows at the same time: https://cl.ly/1C0q0C022o1X/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-21%20at%2...
Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication
#38Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they've introduced threads, it's searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with…
Why not just use email? This was asked by a ton of people and we have addressed it here: https://help.twistapp.com/hc/articles/115003654589 Email is great and we are fans of it, but not for internal team communication.
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#39TL;DR: they just invented internet forum/message board but with nicer GUI.
And it's good.
I think internet went wrong way to ditch traditional internet forums/discussion groups/ and internet communication started to be based on real time chats (Slack, Messenger, Skype etc.), but I'm glad that we're returning to the oldschool (I'm waiting for Facebook to introduce "threads/topics" on its groups, because now Facebook groups are less functional than plain old phpBB.
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Why not just use email? This was asked by a ton of people and we have addressed it here: https://help.twistapp.com/hc/articles/115003654589 Email is great and we are fans of it, but not for internal team communication.
allright, let´s play this game, from your help page: > An email inbox is unorganized Mine isn´t. Between folders and labels, my inbox is clean and organised. > Email chains easily become long and difficult to read, and can splinter off into multiple chains The multiple threads/chains is a feature. I want to be able to splinter off a discussion. Also, if you frequently have massive email chains, you might want to just…
I'll add to your last point with:
Email never interrupts me. I have all audible and popup notifications turned off and generally check if I have new email only when it suits me. I make this super fast and simple by checking if my email icon on my phone has a little red number. Takes two seconds. If I have email, I can read them, if I don't, great.
Like you, I use filters and labels to keep my inbox clean. Automated emails and mailing lists get filtered away right away (and I check them manually when I feel like it). My inbox itself then takes a few seconds to clean leaving only stuff I have to act on. I use the Spark mail client which is very similar to google inbox in that I can quickly deal wia h messages or "snooze" those I can't deal with right now.
This way, I have zero unread messages in my inbox most of the time. (And I get OCD when I see other peopl ea phones or screenshots with 30k unread messages... wtf is wrong with people!)