This kinda highlights how behind Slack is with AI. No reminders of questions, no agentic flows, no focus on UX and AI. At this point if someone asks me - when is the release? It should have a prompt - Answer: "It looks like the release is still waiting for Timothy to get his PR done. Slack AI has this status from him - Almost done - but it does also appear he's not at his desk and on the phone in a vehicle at this time."

Slack is slackin

I use Teams but I usually just leave on read as a signal to get to it later when I have time. I have notifs muted. But I'm also not pinged so often that I need tactics like this article. Good stuff.

It definitely depends on the nature of your work, but the notion of having a channel I need to check hourly makes me ill. If I’m needed I should get a notification, and if I’m involved in an active discussion, I’m there. Otherwise I’ll catch up on a daily basis.

Even with OP's kind of sorting, office chat products conceal the priority of any given message to trick you into more participation. The "purpose of a system is what it does" style thinking can get carried away, but more than 99% of the messages in places I will be expected to notice things that require same day attention, don't. The goal is to waste my time.

I rarely have >3 unscheduled conversations in a day that couldn't wait until tomorrow morning. They just never come from the same place.

It's a yappers paradise. They wouldn't include me on an email where they deliberately have to pick participants, but think the serendipity will occur down the road justifies forcefeeding me whatever bullshit they're working on just in case.

Huh, I never thought of it that way but we sort of have that, just that it's two entries instead of a whole list of frequencies. There's a general chat that you can read whenever~never (participate as much as you want), and one that you are supposed to read (also after a holiday, you're meant to read what was announced). Taking a peek every now and then throughout the day is fine (most days there's 0-2 messages in it). It's basically email whereas the other chat is 'chat'

And of course, if someone needs you specifically, they'll @mention or PM you

Not sure why you would need a four-tiered scheme of frequencies for this