
It allows people to avoid notifications for discussions about topics they do not care about while reacting faster (not disabling notifications) for channels they're in. Understand that with slack one can be already in multiple discussions and starting another synchronously is humanly impossible. Make sure the target audience is in the channel, but allow people to manage messages at their own pace. In Advanced you'll see:Ĭonsider editing your messages instead of flooding with short "*fixed spelling" or similar messages and consider using rich text to allow readers to orient themselves quicker in longer messages.Īvoid directly mentioning (many) people in your message unless it's really urgent or message is really direct but you want to share it in a wider audience.
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Go to Preferences (top-left corner, click on the Mayastor workspace name and select Preferences).

Be kind to your colleagues and create more relevant messages by setting your enter key to insert a newline instead of sending the whole message. One can help it on the receiving end by above settings. In preferences (under workspace name Mayadata in top left corner) you can see all channels that have specific notification settings. Right click on the channel and select Change notifications. Moreover you can also connect your google calendar so notifications are off during your meetings and notifications from slack do not suddenly pop up to your screen while sharing it on a meeting.įine tune your notifications: I have a bunch of channels that I want to read, but do not need to be notified for each message. If you want to be fancy or noticed that Slack's DnD settings do not take weekends into consideration, connect dontinterrupt.app which allows you to set DnD times schedule day by day. You will be able to find Do not Disturb settings under Notifications. Click on "more options" (tree dots) and select View prefereces.
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How to Set Up Your Slack AppĮlegant Puzzle by Will Larson lists ad-hoc interruptions as the second most "effective" time killer in any company: Please read Slack Etiquette Guide, which is an excellent overview of the key concepts for sustainable Slack.

There are channels for casual conversations, sharing interesting links etc.

We tend to use Slack as a type of “social network”.Please don't send information which should be captured as Jira ticket or Confluence page only to Slack.Basically, if you are writing something what is longer than 3 sentences, that should probably go to email or ticket. Person on the other side, will either need to put effort into understanding your question/comment and/or she will need to put effort into responding.You don’t require “immediate” response.Please, don’t sent messages, which really should go via email.People will probably overlook messages in channels, when they get back from vacation.Slack is treated as strictly best-effort communication platform. Nobody is required to response on Slack.We are using Slack for non-urgent semi real-time, simple communication.
