Keep your hands on the keyboardīusy lives get busy sidebars, right? On a Mac you can navigate through all those channels and messages using Option and the Up or Down arrows. You’ll be notified whenever that keyword gets used in any of your channels. Perhaps there’s a client relationship you take particularly seriously, in which case you might set that company name up as a keyword.

If you are working on a project, you might set the application up to alert you when someone in any of your channels uses the project code name (“big heart,” for example). Preferences > Notifications also gives you access to the Keywords item. Now you can adjust notifications to the level you are comfortable with:Īlternatively, use the Do Not Disturb feature (click your profile icon, select Pause notifications, and choose a period of time) to give yourself a little space.Īnd don’t forget: You can also use the Mac’s default Notifications manager in System Preferences to put Slack notifications on a diet. Select a workspace and then choose Preferences > Notifications in Slack’s menu. At least they should be and everybody complaints when they aren't.If you work in a busy team, you may want to disable Slack notifications temporarily when you attempt to focus on a task, or adjust them to cut out the interruptions while still picking up on necessary stuff.

Being nice to companies is a means to an end, not the goal itself, and the discussion about whether API should be legally accessible to third party vendors (or devices/cars/… should be legally repairable by third party repair shops) should focus on whether we get better user experience, service, and so on, and have the question of whether companies will still want to offer backend-service like Slack under such a law as a facet. There is no reason society can't agree to limit the options of keeping an API locked down in such contracts, especially for well established companies like Slack.Īnd I think the advantages of such a law are very clear: More competition on front-ends could very likely create much better user experience (better organization of chats, better message and image editor, better notifications, show users whether messages have actually been sent).

Workers rights limit it, sanctions limit it, cartel and competition laws limit it. I assume your argument is that Slack has the 'freedom of contract', the right to create and offer you contracts of their choosing (and you are free to accept or decline them).

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