What remote work tools do you use?
Hey all,
I'm currently researching a new remote work tool. Something that enables teams to stay in sync while being totally asynchronous. I was just curious what kind of communication tools people are using now for single or multi-user purposes to track/do work.
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Most of our remote work communication is managed through Slack & Notion.
How do you find slack for async stuff? I get the feeling like a lot gets lost in noise especially if you're on different time zones or doing stuff asynchronously.
We all work remotely in multiple timezones and it works OK for us but probably the biggest things that we had to adjust to make it work were:
Coming back to this. Do you think there's anything that would make your life easier? Is there a reason you're not using some sort of message board like Discourse to keep track of things day to day?
Make my life easier: Maybe documenting stuff for the team and being confident they'll read/watch it and come back with any questions.
Message board: Slack is basically a message board. I think the main issue with any new tools is getting adoption. In a larger team getting everyone to use any new tool is difficult so you're way more likely to stick to the tools the team are comfortable with.
What convinced people to move to slack? We were users of Hipchat at the time. Slack was the cool new kid in town, literally no difference in that it was just the same kind of basic chat app with channels. I guess the difference, design, less friction.
Slack's issue as a message board, everything is a message that holds no context. It's chat as opposed to a board. Slack's obviously evolving but it will never be a say Trello or a Jira or a Notion.