For example, you may have project information or manuals in Google Docs or Notion, or brainstorming in Miro or FigJam.Īssign someone to find and get tasks out of Slack conversations and into Notion, Trello, Asana, Rayday or another task management tool of your choice - and assign them to the relevant people.

If it doesn’t require the team’s immediate attention, use a different tool. It’s also great for discussing projects, early designs or other assets you want immediate feedback on, or for discussing fixes for critical bugs. Use Slack for instant communication: ephemeral wins, praising the team, shoutouts and so on. Decide what can be discussed on Slackīecause Slack treats everything with the same level of importance, key bits of communication and information get buried. In Sifted’s Startup Life newsletter, Adit gave his top tips for using Slack more productively. Once you send something in Slack, it’s often lost in the abyss,” he says.Īfter trying and testing a bunch of manual solutions, he started Rayday - a tool to help teams use Slack more effectively, by ensuring your asks don’t end up lost in the chaos of endless chat. Adit Trivedi was scaling the team at the edtech he cofounded, Lingumi - from two employees to 75 across London, Singapore, Taiwan and China - when he realised Slack just wasn’t scaling with it: “As teams scale, so do the number of channels and the time it takes to get up to date.

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