Is Slack your primary coordination tool with your coworkers?
If you’re like me, you send a lot of messages asking people for information or to do things, and if your coworkers are resource-limited humans like mine, they won’t always follow-up on the timescale you need.
How do you ensure loops get closed without maintaining a giant list of unfinished things in your head?
I used Slacks remind-me feature extensively. Whenever I send a message that I want to follow-up on if the targeted party doesn’t get back to me within a certain time frame, I set a reminder on the message (drop-down menu, “remind me”.
Slack is also a major source of to-do items for me. One thing I could is always act on each to-do item as I come across (e.g. replying to messages), but this would make it hard together anything done. Just because I want to do something doesn’t mean I should do it on the spot to avoid forgetting about it. Here I also use remind-me feature to return to items when it’s a good time (I batch things this way).
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Is Slack your primary coordination tool with your coworkers?
If you’re like me, you send a lot of messages asking people for information or to do things, and if your coworkers are resource-limited humans like mine, they won’t always follow-up on the timescale you need.
How do you ensure loops get closed without maintaining a giant list of unfinished things in your head?
I used Slacks remind-me feature extensively. Whenever I send a message that I want to follow-up on if the targeted party doesn’t get back to me within a certain time frame, I set a reminder on the message (drop-down menu, “remind me”.
Slack is also a major source of to-do items for me. One thing I could is always act on each to-do item as I come across (e.g. replying to messages), but this would make it hard together anything done. Just because I want to do something doesn’t mean I should do it on the spot to avoid forgetting about it. Here I also use remind-me feature to return to items when it’s a good time (I batch things this way).