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Do you still have notifications turned on for messages? Turn those off, mute most channels, and get control of your communications. Same for email. You don’t need to be distracted every few minutes. Take a break once and hour or two and check for high priority messages. Once a day you can catch up on secondary priority messages. delete or ignore the rest. Your job title is not slack reader or email reader.


> Take a break once and hour or two and check for high priority messages.

But that requires parsing a torrent of mainly chatter messages. Slack is really poorly suited to time-shifted message review; scroll, scroll, scroll...




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