I use Slack's 'Posts' feature which is a full Markdown post that you can embed in a chat in Slack.
The reasons I use these are:
1. Rich content, organized & clean lists with outbound links for status updates about things I'm working on, linking to Asana/Github
2. Notes from one on ones, or general progress updates that I keep in a private channel and save basically as a stream-of-consciousness/reality log, having them there makes them readily accessible in product and having them in Markdown makes them very readable when I'm browsing through.
In short, I treat Slack rooms almost like I would treat a folder in Dropbox, they just happen to also include some chat between people :P
The reasons I use these are: 1. Rich content, organized & clean lists with outbound links for status updates about things I'm working on, linking to Asana/Github 2. Notes from one on ones, or general progress updates that I keep in a private channel and save basically as a stream-of-consciousness/reality log, having them there makes them readily accessible in product and having them in Markdown makes them very readable when I'm browsing through.
In short, I treat Slack rooms almost like I would treat a folder in Dropbox, they just happen to also include some chat between people :P