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Here’s a midly annoying problem I’m currently facing with Slack. Getting annoyed of jumping between DM’s and channels where I end up losing track of a channel I

Here’s a midly annoying problem I’m currently facing with Slack. Getting annoyed of jumping between DM’s and channels where I end up losing track of a channel I may have needed open or was going through. I feel like having tabs in slack would fix this? Not sure if it makes sense for the app to have this feature but something I’ve been thinking about.

boredumb 5y ago
I have the same problem and honestly just a 'recently used channel' history would solve it easily.
Ozzie_osman 5y ago
Slack has a history button. It's not perfect but it does the basics of what you describe https://www.howtogeek.com/668154/how-to-quickly-access-your-recent-conversations-on-slack-for-desktop-and-web/ https://www.howtogeek.com/668154/how-to-quickly-access-your-...
philsnow 5y ago
I cling to using Chrome's support for shortcuts-as-apps: go to whateverteam.slack.com, hamburger menu -> "More tools" -> "Create shortcut..." -> "[X] open as window". At least on Mac, it creates a .app in "$HOME/Applications/Chrome Apps" that works like any other app: it shows up in the cmd-tab switcher, you can open it with spotlight, etc. The best part (and the part relevant to your comment) is that this just opens a Chrome window and you can open (cmd-N) as many windows into the same slack team as you want, and it behaves like you expect a Mac app to behave: cmd-tab goes between teams and cmd-backtick goes between windows of a single team. I gather that there are some Mac apps or extensions or something that let you gather windows of _any_ app into tabs, so you could likely use one of those here to get tabs instead of windows. Supposedly Chrome is getting rid of support for Chrome Apps, I think that's what these things are called (?). If so, I'm going to be impacted when it finally goes away.
_jal 5y ago
I encourage people to move to email. I know people hate it, but I'm serious. Threading suddenly works in a non-stupid way, search suddenly works, and you can manage your own windows.
- nadagast 5y ago
  We're working on task management + email, I kept your comment [1] from awhile ago. I don't see any way to contact you in your profile, are you interested in trying an alpha? Email me at garrett at twobird.com [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23693582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23693582

boredumb 5y ago

I have the same problem and honestly just a 'recently used channel' history would solve it easily.

Ozzie_osman 5y ago

Slack has a history button. It's not perfect but it does the basics of what you describe https://www.howtogeek.com/668154/how-to-quickly-access-your-recent-conversations-on-slack-for-desktop-and-web/ https://www.howtogeek.com/668154/how-to-quickly-access-your-...

philsnow 5y ago

I cling to using Chrome's support for shortcuts-as-apps: go to whateverteam.slack.com, hamburger menu -> "More tools" -> "Create shortcut..." -> "[X] open as window". At least on Mac, it creates a .app in "$HOME/Applications/Chrome Apps" that works like any other app: it shows up in the cmd-tab switcher, you can open it with spotlight, etc. The best part (and the part relevant to your comment) is that this just opens a Chrome window and you can open (cmd-N) as many windows into the same slack team as you want, and it behaves like you expect a Mac app to behave: cmd-tab goes between teams and cmd-backtick goes between windows of a single team. I gather that there are some Mac apps or extensions or something that let you gather windows of _any_ app into tabs, so you could likely use one of those here to get tabs instead of windows. Supposedly Chrome is getting rid of support for Chrome Apps, I think that's what these things are called (?). If so, I'm going to be impacted when it finally goes away.

_jal 5y ago

I encourage people to move to email. I know people hate it, but I'm serious. Threading suddenly works in a non-stupid way, search suddenly works, and you can manage your own windows.

nadagast 5y ago
We're working on task management + email, I kept your comment [1] from awhile ago. I don't see any way to contact you in your profile, are you interested in trying an alpha? Email me at garrett at twobird.com [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23693582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23693582