How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
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How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
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Re: How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
#2The most useful thing about Slack is you can press Shift+ESC (sometimes you have to press it twice) to mark all conversations as read.
Inbox zero with two keystrokes. Whoever implemented that, I'd like to buy a coffee someday.
(Also, I discovered this because I use Ctrl+Shift+ESC instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Windows Task Manager immediately without going through the intermediary screen that pops up, and one day, I missed Ctrl.)
Re: How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
#3dont use it ... if a production is actually not making your life better why tie yourself down to it.
just use what works, force slack to innovate
Re: How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
#4In two companies where we had piloted Slack, I led successful campaigns to transition away from it.
Combining your choice of Email / IM client (Gmail / Hangouts or Outlook / Skype) satisfies 99% of use cases for Slack.
Overall we were less stressed and didn't miss a beat. I'm sure there are industries / companies working in areas that it makes sense - but I don't think it just works for everyone by default in the same way that IM and Email do.
Re: How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
#5I literally mute every channel except my direct team's channel. If you need me, @ me baby.
Re: How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
#6dont use it ... if a production is actually not making your life better why tie yourself down to it. just use what works, force slack to innovate
Not sure why you're getting downvotes - it's a reasonable question to ask: "why use something that makes you crazy / stressed out?
Not to set up a straw-man, but I'd imagine a similar reaction if someone wrote a post titled "How to use Facebook and not get depressed," the gut-reaction is "why use it if it's making you feel bad?"
Re: How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
#7In two companies where we had piloted Slack, I led successful campaigns to transition away from it. Combining your choice of Email / IM client (Gmail / Hangouts or Outlook / Skype) satisfies 99% of use cases for Slack. Overall we were less stressed and didn't miss a beat. I'm sure there are industries / companies working in areas that it makes sense - but I don't think it just works for everyone by default in the sam…
Skype is bad though? Like, I want a near-real time asynchronous messaging system that has all the features a messaging system should have... and you can't get that with Skype/Outlook. The two alone are a pain to use.
Re: How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
#8In two companies where we had piloted Slack, I led successful campaigns to transition away from it. Combining your choice of Email / IM client (Gmail / Hangouts or Outlook / Skype) satisfies 99% of use cases for Slack. Overall we were less stressed and didn't miss a beat. I'm sure there are industries / companies working in areas that it makes sense - but I don't think it just works for everyone by default in the sam…
What was stressing you out about slack?
How does Email/IM (isn't slack just IM?) solve your problems without causing the same stress?
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#9In two companies where we had piloted Slack, I led successful campaigns to transition away from it. Combining your choice of Email / IM client (Gmail / Hangouts or Outlook / Skype) satisfies 99% of use cases for Slack. Overall we were less stressed and didn't miss a beat. I'm sure there are industries / companies working in areas that it makes sense - but I don't think it just works for everyone by default in the sam…
I refuse to use Skype because of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security#Eavesdropping_b...
I also remember a ToS change that allowed MS to listen in for quality control purposes.
Re: How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
#10And yet there are many of us that use Slack in a way that is not intrusive, doesn't stress us out and adds incredible value. (I am unaffiliated with Slack, the company.)
I recently started paying for it, after having used it free at my company for several years. We wanted full comment history. I will say, the bonus of video calls doesn't work at all, and I still pay zoom.us for that. (Yes, did a customer support interaction, told them my problems, they thanked me. They have a lot of work to do. Or, they should just purchase or merge with zoom.us.)