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by dheera 2115 days ago
Curious what the hate for Slack is. I use a 1-person Slack workspace for personal note-taking and memory extension, and I find it is also a super useful tool to manage ideas, photos, shared files in romantic relationships.

For either use case the ability to write bots for it, and the fact that it syncs across devices with multiple simultaneous logins is awesome.
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hacker_newz 2115 days ago
How do you use a 1-person Slack workspace for shared files in relationships?
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dheera 2115 days ago
I have a 1-person workspace for personal note-taking and also a 2-person workspace for shared files/links/photos/etc. in a relationship.

I also find the 1-person workspace to sadly be the easiest way to transfer files between my computers and phones. Like for example when I need to take a PDF with me to the airport or elsewhere, I just drag the PDF into my 1-person Slack workspace and head out the door. Every other method I've tried involves more steps. The mobile clients of Dropbox and Google Drive make it unreasonably hard to actually download files.

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brendawalsh 2115 days ago
Once you use it with a decent amount of people for work, things just get ‘lost’, because the frequency of messages in a channel is so high, info is missed, or employees working on different shifts need to spend a decent amount of time at the beginning of their day to review all the missed messages, some are relevant, most are not.

As you mentioned, there is also an inclination to send alerts or tasks to a channel, and similarly, the alert gets buried w additional messages, or you want up creating a bunch of ‘alert’ channels that you mute, or become hijacked and people start convos in those channels.

Also, the threading sucks. It is very difficult to get users to use threads.

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dheera 2115 days ago
> Also, the threading sucks. It is very difficult to get users to use threads.

I think a big part of it is it's not obvious how to create threads on mobile. A facebook-like UI for that would be nice.

I wonder if this type of live UI modification could be implemented as a Chrome extension and deployed across an enterprise.

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