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Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by balls187 »

jgh wrote: post #65
balls187 wrote: post #32

My wife and I use slack. In the past ~6 months we: got engage, planned a wedding, a wedding reception (2 different dates), honeymoon to Australia, a baby, a new house, and renting out our townhome. While slack is really a gussied up messaging platform, the extra polish they have on things like search, pins, and documents, made planning and executing on 3 of lifes major milestones significantly easier to manage. So fa…

That's a busy 6 months...

My (now) wife and I decided to start a family. After that decision, we were pleasantly surprised that things moved along quicker than expected, but meant we had to accelerate a lot of things. We're both engineers, so we approached it like engineers: take big problems, break into smaller problems, prioritize, delegate, and execute.

Slack helped us keep focused and organized without a lot of effort on our part.

Also we had a lot of luck, pretty much everything went according to plan.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by digi_owl »

davidbrent wrote: post #70

Someone at work was recently giving me the slack pitch, and mentioned the cool bot that be configured to announce people, answer questions etc... It made me very nostalgic for my old IRC friends, both people and eggdrop bots alike.

I have long held that IM (in particular MSN Messenger) was what killed community usage of IRC.

Before XP shipped with Messenger bundled, and aggressively pushed (i recall you would get a big window in your face on first login "demanding" you set up an account), basically everyone with a net connection in the local area was found on one or more regional channels.

After IM came however, things became very "cliche-y" as people were "approving" each other over IM and then dropping off IRC.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by fjallstrom »

xyclos wrote: post #53
fjallstrom wrote: post #8

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hi. article author here. the feed url is very long, and parents can disable it entirely. so i guess it's fine.

I am also intrigued by this. Would you mind sharing what other types information the feed provides?

sure! - what lunch is being served in the cafeteria - homework and due dates - private messages from teachers (not the full message, just a notification) - reminders like "bring ice skates"

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by Kihashi »

balls187 wrote: post #68
amelius wrote: post #64

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> things like search, pins, and documents GMail also has built-in search. Google docs has documents. Both are free.

Slack is easily free for a family of 2. Gmail's search is very good (but only useful if everyone avoids the habit of using Email like an IM client [ie unhelpful body and subject texts]). Google doc's is okay. Without thinking about it, slack organizes your messages into topics (aka channels), and it's easy to drag-n-drop files into channels, which are then archived, and easily found.

GMail's search also works for hangouts messages.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by MindReptile »

mxuribe wrote: post #45
ritonlajoie wrote: post #14

Nice use of slack. Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I'm thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook/g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I'm missing something better ? The first requirement is that anybody m…

Wow, is this relevant to me! While my family is only 3 of us, I am quite content using a private (and self-hosted) social network. I ended up using Gnu Social ( http://gnu.io/social/ ). Here are the reasons for wanting a private network: * Wanted to teach my young daughter how to behave and what to be prepared for (i.e. cyber bullying) while utilizing social media...BUT...In a safe environment before going out and fa…

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Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by balls187 »

Kihashi wrote: post #74
balls187 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slack is easily free for a family of 2. Gmail's search is very good (but only useful if everyone avoids the habit of using Email like an IM client [ie unhelpful body and subject texts]). Google doc's is okay. Without thinking about it, slack organizes your messages into topics (aka channels), and it's easy to drag-n-drop files into channels, which are then archived, and easily found.

GMail's search also works for hangouts messages.

Does hangouts have a concept of topics? From my limited uses of it, if you chat with a single person, you can't create a new chat with that person around a different topic.

In slack, I can (and do) have multiple conversations with the same person, but organized around topics.

In hangouts, how do I easily see the files that have been sent? I opened a hangout I've had with a buddy of mine, and it (at least to me) wasn't obvious where those files are.

Also, how do I star a comment? In slack, it's handy to star a comment, or even pin them, to make finding them easier.

No question that you get slack like functionality across a myriad of tools you currently use and are familiar with. However as far as an integrated, easy to use experience, Slack is fairly compelling.

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