One of the annoying things about Slack, is that people start tagging you everywhere, even in small comments. How do you manage to focus on the tasks you are doing when this happens, especially in a startup where you might be playing multiple roles?
Switch to Chime
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Switching to chime is how you get more DM’s. 😂
Slack is a productivity killer. Set expectations with those around you that you can’t consistently be reached on slack. Everyone is better off in the long run.
Here are some actual tips: - Mute every channel that is not pertinent to your day-to-day communications -- eg, everything except your team channels. - "Star" the channels and DMs that you care about, and leave the rest under the regular "Channels" header. Collapse the header. - Aggressively close your DM windows. I keep exactly none of them open except during actual conversation. - Silence audible notifications, change the display to "compact", disable the WYSIWYG editor, disable animated emojis (it'd be preferable to disable emojis completely but 🤷♂️) - Disable desktop notifications entirely, because that's your only real option. Congrats, you now have a RAM-hungry, electron-based, less-configurable and overall bad imitation of IRC.
One of the most annoying things at my last startup was when people started gamifying Slack, encouraging its constant use. It really killed engineering productivity and amplified the voices of really annoying people.
Holy shit. You totally explained what I experienced. It was ridiculous.
People conflate Slack usage with good company culture when it’s a breeding ground for politics and immaturity. l wanted to mute a co-worker for spamming the channels with gifs and irrelevant content. Taught me to seek a dry, purely engineering team for my next position.
When you need quite time, completely disable notifications on Slack or maybe even close the app for sometime. I typically check Slack once every hour. No one expects an immediate answer. If it was an emergency you'd probably get paged/called.
If you have code works and docs clear as crystals, I don't understand why you could be getting so many pings everyday.
You’ll get pinged more if you’re working on high profile deliverables.
Turn off notification dots (also do it for outlook) & get into a habit or use a reminder somewhere else to check in hourly. For intense moments of wanting to reduce noise set your status to a red dot or some other emoji to indicate you're unavailable
Prioritize and then you know that slack shouldnt be more than a small percent of your day
Switch companies
Turn off sound notifications. Check every couple hours.
This is much harder to do in startups where it is normal for the CEO and directors to tag you directly.
Yeah in a startup there are a lot of pings from everyone and they expected answers yesterday. >.>