[alxmng]

Yeah. Slack has no inbox, no single view of new messages. If I wake up in the morning and go to work, I have to hunt around for what’s new in the sidebar, clicking into different threads and DMs. I route new activity to email instead of using Slack.

It’s amazing to me that a “work communication” tool has no inbox.

[seandavidfisher]

Slack has an “All Unreads” view that you can turn on through preferences.

[alxmng]

Eh, it’s not usable as an inbox. It doesn’t exist on iOS. It still groups by channel, and if you read anything or click into something then you lose it (dealbreaker for me).

Whereas with my email inbox (which works the same on desktop or phone), I can read the messages without losing them. I can read all the new messages, work on the ones that are most important and earliest, and only when I’ve dealt with them do I archive them and remove them from the list. That way I can always look at my inbox to see what needs to be done (not what I’ve yet to read).