If it's a busy project, coming back after time off, or coming out of your zone. Large slack threads can simply take up too much time.
Before I unveil the solution, let's delve into the problem. I find it incredibly frustrating when I'm in a Slack thread with 30 to 40 messages, and I suddenly get tagged with the same question: 'What are your thoughts?'
This situation raises a few assumptions:
- The person assumes I will read through all 40 messages to understand the context.
- I'm frustrated with the lack of context in their 'What do you think?' message.
- I'm clueless about what to think because I lack information on the decisions made and actions taken.
And this isn't the only time this happens, when I come back from time off, there are threads upon threads waiting for me, if a project is in full swing you need to be able to quickly get an idea of what is happening and sometimes you just decide to ignore that thread.
So I thought, why not let a bot do this for me, and thus I created SlackSift ( I know the name rocks ). Slacksift is an app that simplifies your Slack thread experience. Slacksift makes it easy to catch up and respond faster, saving you the hassle of scrolling through a lengthy conversation. It's a practical solution for streamlining your Slack interactions through one simple command @slacksift summarise.
