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Chat is pretty asynchronous for me. I only read or respond to things when my name is mentioned or if there's something particularly relevant or important going

Chat is pretty asynchronous for me. I only read or respond to things when my name is mentioned or if there's something particularly relevant or important going on. I just mute notifications for all but the most important channels, and sometimes even mute those while working. That way you only get a notification for @everyone-type mentions, personal mentions, and personal messages, which is not unlike email.

rbanffy 8y ago
Even doing that, I still think it's very distracting.
- judge2020 8y ago
  At that point, it's only distracting if you work with distracting people. Maybe without IM the barrier to being distracting would be having to go to your desk, but it would still be an occasional issue.