Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
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Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
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Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#2This is a great feature. One of Slack's deficiencies is that it's very difficult to summarize a conversation in-situ. I've tried to do this with Google Docs, but it's too disconnected.
Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#3It's hard to find, but it's a new feature that's not generally available (apparently will be in 2023) named Canvas. Basically, Slacks version of Google Docs.
Was kind of annoying that this was hidden in the article and I didn't see any mention of it in Slack.
Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#4Great, now we can post a Slack link to a Confluence page that links back to a Slack Canvas that links to a Google Doc that links to a Slack thread that says to look in Jira for that outdated video on Sharepoint.
Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#5Yet another 'digital container' of disparate information to house your data and make it difficult for someone find it across an organisation.
As someone who was working in a scale up I found that we had information spread across coda, wiki, markdown, tickets, collaborative whiteboards (Miro), git issues, google docs, coda, (insert random lastest cool SaaS that someone stumbled across one night and used the company card to sign up), local spreadsheets and docs.
Every individual, every team, had their own place for stuff and it was a nightmare trying to find things, let alone the security nightmare of understanding which data was where and what sensitivity it was.
It just seems like it's not the tool itself, it's more there are actually too many options out there
Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#6Great, now we can post a Slack link to a Confluence page that links back to a Slack Canvas that links to a Google Doc that links to a Slack thread that says to look in Jira for that outdated video on Sharepoint.
Someone should create a startup to track all that! /s
Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#7I wonder how this will work with slack orgs with short data retention policies. It wouldn't make sense to delete parts of a Canvas, as "Canvas docs are collaborative, and all their comments are just Slack threads." (from https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/20/23361717/slack-canvas-doc...)
Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#8Great, now we can post a Slack link to a Confluence page that links back to a Slack Canvas that links to a Google Doc that links to a Slack thread that says to look in Jira for that outdated video on Sharepoint.
Surely "notion" is in that chain somewhere as well lol. Yeah, I really dislike when tools try to reach outside their "lane" (See: everything Dropbox has done that isn't storing files), you get abandoned half-implemented things that you get forced to use because "well we already pay for X and it has Y feature". If ever there was a use for the "I want X, we have X at home"-meme it would be cases like this. I wish more companies strived (strove? apparently both are valid) to just be the best at 1 thing instead of branching out into things they just aren't good at and won't continue working on. I guess I make some exceptions for the Google/Apple/Microsoft's of the world where it can be beneficial to have a "platform version" of most basic tools (passwords, notes, calendar, etc) but for other companies I feel like it would be better for everyone if they stayed in their lane.
Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#9This is a great feature. One of Slack's deficiencies is that it's very difficult to summarize a conversation in-situ. I've tried to do this with Google Docs, but it's too disconnected.
> One of Slack's deficiencies is that it's very difficult to summarize a conversation in-situ
We used to call that email. :)
Re: Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory
#10This is a great feature. One of Slack's deficiencies is that it's very difficult to summarize a conversation in-situ. I've tried to do this with Google Docs, but it's too disconnected.
> One of Slack's deficiencies is that it's very difficult to summarize a conversation in-situ We used to call that email. :)
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