How to organize your Slack channels
Some strategies for taming your Slack channels. Oct 21, 2022, 5:20 PM UTCIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Vergeof scrolling — to find the channel you want to use.
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You can also spend a lot of time trying to figure out which channels you need to pay attention to now and which ones you can save until later. . Normally, we try to only describe free features; but perhaps there are enough of our readers out there who are using Slack through their companies and organizations who might find these organizational features useful.
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And perhaps Slack might someday offer these features to the free accounts as well. Read more: The Verge » Custom Slack Apps Help Your Team Thrive Americans are burned out because they traded faith and family for work As Economic Concerns Rise, Executives Are Reporting Record-High Stress—And Defaulting To Old Office Habits As Economic Concerns Rise, Executives Are Reporting Record-High Stress—And Defaulting To Old Office Habits
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Americans are burned out because they traded faith and family for workThe problem with workism is that it drives you to keep working until you get ultimate meaning from work — which you never will, writes TPCarney. So the root of millennial and Gen Z burnout isn’t our economy or their bosses. It’s their bad religion.
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Judge dismisses retaliation lawsuit by California prisoner who helped organize statewide hunger strikeTodd Ashker, 59, alleged he was being retaliated against by being placed in solitary confinement for his work to end indefinite solitary throughout California prisons. / Conversations in Slack can quickly get out of hand — so it’s a good idea to try to organize them to help keep track By Oct 21, 2022, 5:20 PM UTC Share this story Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If your workplace (or organization, or friends group, or whatever) is anything like mine, and you’ve used Slack for more than, say, a month, you have no doubt amassed a lot of channels (also known as conversations).Deals for only 24 hours If you need to make a big furniture or home purchase, this is your chance.Employers, academics, and journalists are looking for the root causes of this phenomenon.survey released Thursday from Future Forum, a consortium backed by the messaging platform Slack, finds that now, even senior executives’ sentiments about their jobs are declining—and it appears to be prompting them to fall back on old norms about where and when people work. This can result in a lot of scrolling — I mean, a lot of scrolling — to find the channel you want to use.
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You can also spend a lot of time trying to figure out which channels you need to pay attention to now and which ones you can save until later. Apply this same process to different user personas.
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Luckily, there are several ways you can organize that long list of channels on the left side of your Slack app to make it at least somewhat easier to deal with. Have employers become more demanding or less solicitous? Surely in 2020, when workers were locked up at home with roommates, spouse, and children, everything was different.
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Unluckily, this is only available in paid versions of Slack .” One of my favorite rules of thumb for building user-centric experiences: don’t make me think. Normally, we try to only describe free features; but perhaps there are enough of our readers out there who are using Slack through their companies and organizations who might find these organizational features useful. “That kind of stress is leading people to go back to what’s familiar and comfortable for them.
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And perhaps Slack might someday offer these features to the free accounts as well. The inspiration for this functionality comes from the instinctual behavior of copying and pasting links, which users already perform hundreds of times a day to share websites, messages, and files. So what’s been happening for a decade that would make people more stressed, less happy, and more burnt out?
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Obviously, social phenomena cannot be pinned to a single cause, but I would put the root cause of worker burnout not primarily on bosses’ expectations from work but on workers’ expectations from work. Related Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window Star your favorites Actually, there are two organizational tools available for free accounts.
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Starred channels appear on top of your list of channels in a category called (of course) Starred. I’m not the kind of person who believes a job is strictly transactional.
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On a computer, right-click on any of your channels and select Move To > Starred . As a solution, we’ve introduced a new modular architecture grounded in “building blocks. Future Forum’s report—released by Slack, which makes tools it hopes will serve as a “ digital HQ ” for hybrid workers—found that workers who have full flexibility with their schedules say they are 29% more productive and 53% more able to focus than those who have no schedule flexibility.
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In the mobile app, long-press on the channel and select Move to.. Additionally, our faster, more intuitive developer experience includes new and improved tools like the Slack CLI and SDK that make it simpler to build, run, and deploy code in Slack’s secure, compliant environment.
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Advertisement Whether you go serverless with Slack or keep your code in house, always make sure you’re using the proper tools for your organization’s needs. Once that’s done, you’ll see a new category above Channels called Starred, which — with all the conversations you’ve assigned to it — will now head all the others. Millennials and Gen Z are far less likely to belong to an organized religion.
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“If, as a senior leadership team, you’re still basing most of your decisions on the discussions that are happening at this level and not really getting in and understanding it,” Elliott says, “then you’re at risk of going backwards. You can place important channels in a category called Starred.
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Mute unnecessary channels You may have channels that you only use occasionally — one that handles ...
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Mute unnecessary channels You may have channels that you only use occasionally — one that handles IT questions, for example, or that is only active during a holiday season. We’ve seen customers across retail, finance, and telecomm, including.
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So where do millennials and Gen Z find it? Increasingly, at work....
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So where do millennials and Gen Z find it? Increasingly, at work.
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In that case, you can mute the channel. This will gray out the names of the channels (but you’ll still see it bolded or numbered if there are notifications). In the desktop app, right-click the channel name; in the mobile app, long-press the channel name.
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Workism is “the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the center...
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Any channels that you don’t categorize will stay in the existing section called Channels. So the r...
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Workism is “the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and life’s purpose; and the belief that any policy to promote human welfare must always encourage more work. Then, in either case, select Mute channel All the rest of the features mentioned here are currently available for paid accounts only. Create sections You can create a variety of categories — known as sections — in order to organize all your channels.
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Any channels that you don’t categorize will stay in the existing section called Channels. So the r...
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Any channels that you don’t categorize will stay in the existing section called Channels. So the root of millennial and Gen Z burnout isn’t our economy or their bosses. For example, I created a section called Priority for the channels I always have to pay attention to, one called Interesting for the channels I want to monitor but that aren’t vital to my work, and LowPri for the ones that I simply need to be aware of.
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Everything else stayed in the basic Channels section. To create a new section (which you can only do...
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Everything else stayed in the basic Channels section. To create a new section (which you can only do using the desktop version): Right-click on the channel you want to recategorize and click on or hover over Move channel .