How we use Slack in our family • Hacker News Board

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by jacalata » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 9:16 PM UTC

visakanv wrote: post #24

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…

Why not just create a Facebook group? What features are you missing?

(Not the OP) I have relatives who object to using Facebook.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by eddieplan9 » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 9:17 PM UTC

callmeed wrote: post #63

Does anyone have a favorite "Shared Family Calendar"? We need something to keep track of everyone's school schedule, reports/projects due, sports games/practices, etc. etc. I've tried Google and Trello ... wondering if there's something better.

The Family Sharing in iCloud works exceptionally well for us.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by jeena » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 9:28 PM UTC

callmeed wrote: post #63

Does anyone have a favorite "Shared Family Calendar"? We need something to keep track of everyone's school schedule, reports/projects due, sports games/practices, etc. etc. I've tried Google and Trello ... wondering if there's something better.

Owncloud?

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by oldgun » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 9:54 PM UTC

See, people. This is how Slack should be used. For family daily use, not as the only communication tool for opensource projects.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by dberg » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 9:55 PM UTC

lfx wrote: post #28

_b8r0 wrote: post #19

For those who don't want to use Slack but want some sort of family automation, Huginn[1] may be useful. [1] - https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

wow! cool tool, thanks for the link!

This looks amazing.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by Kihashi » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 9:59 PM UTC

balls187 wrote: post #79

Kihashi wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'…

Just to be clear, I was only commenting that GMail's search can be used for chats. I was not commenting on other features, but I'll try to answer your questions if I can.

> Does hangouts have a concept of topics?

Yes, in that you can title group conversations. It's weak though.

> 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.

AFAICT, this is correct. If you try to make a group chat with only one person, it will just open the existing chat that you have open with that person.

> In hangouts, how do I easily see the files that have been sent?

I honestly have no idea. whenever I've needed to send a file to someone over hangouts, I share a dropbox link.

> 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.

This is not possible AFAIK.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by birbal » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 10:06 PM UTC

this is so awesome. My wife and I have been thinking and working on how can family productivity be improved. It's not an easy task as we are figuring out. There was a recent blog post that became reasonably popular. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-slack-moms-slackformoms...

The challenge I feel is to determine if one should take a broad-based approach to family productivity that addresses all aspects or should one take a narrow high-value problem and solve for improving the productivity of that task. We have approached it from the point of view of making kids' activity planning as a task easier. We are going into beta in a week or so. We'll know if this works.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by bedros » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 10:49 PM UTC

_b8r0 wrote: post #19

For those who don't want to use Slack but want some sort of family automation, Huginn[1] may be useful. [1] - https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

a great concept, anything like this in python?

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by ergo14 » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 10:54 PM UTC

oldgun wrote: post #84

See, people. This is how Slack should be used. For family daily use, not as the only communication tool for opensource projects.

What's the benefit of using this for family vs hangouts?

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by georgehotelling » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 11:33 PM UTC

ergo14 wrote: post #89

oldgun wrote: post #84

See, people. This is how Slack should be used. For family daily use, not as the only communication tool for opensource projects.

What's the benefit of using this for family vs hangouts?

Is it possible to get all the stuff in the article integrated with Hangouts?