Slack messages are annoying, mostly go unread. Slack has no way of prioritizing or organizing itself. I've become more and more disaffected by Slack over time as a way of doing work. Instead, I prefer these other ways of async work, where it's tracked more permanently, and the tooling is built for a certain type of interaction. I view slack as work social media, a kind of ephemeral place or community. A place, at most, to share an idea with no commitment to get a response.
- I have a half-formed thought / brainstorm, and I want to "get it down", and need to "work it out". Don't put it on slack, that'll distract everyone, and probably be misunderstood anyway.
- Put it in your notetaking system (like logseq) until its fully formed, then get it in a google doc for more feedback
- I have a more fully-formed thought / idea / brainstorm and wish to share it with the team or an individual
- Write a short google doc and put that in slack asking for f