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Everyone I work with is part of at least a dozen Slack workspaces with disparate notification settings. I get loads of notifications at times when I can't reply
by jedbrown 7y ago
Everyone I work with is part of at least a dozen Slack workspaces with disparate notification settings. I get loads of notifications at times when I can't reply immediately, but there is no system comparable to _not archiving an email_ so I remember to come back to it. I get the convenience of semi-synchronous conversations and being able to engage and catch people up better than forwarding an email chain, but Slack and its ilk are very, very far from replacing email.
- lemoncucumber 7y agoI've always wished that Gmail (or some other email client) would add support for creating arbitrary "folders" each with an "inbox" and an "archive" section. The Gmail inbox -> archive flow works really well, but I'd like to have multiple such inboxes for different mailing lists. A prime example is pull request notification emails: I want them to skip my inbox and go into a "folder", but I want to keep track of which ones I still need to review so the archiving model would be great. I could hack such a workflow together using multiple labels, but it wouldn't have the convenience of a universal "archive" keyboard shortcut / button.
- ec109685 7y agoSlack workspaces aren’t good. I hate switching between them. I can get to “inbox” zero in my email and one slack workspace. Switching between them is too much friction.
- IneffablePigeon 7y agoI agree, I'd love a quick "add to to-do list" button or something as a quick and dirty fix to that. Or even just a mark as unread button. Right now I resort to setting a slackbot reminder for an hour for any message I think I might forget to deal with.