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Best Practices for Managing Slack Madness

Are you feeling overwhelmed with all the Slack messages? Do you often read a message while in the middle of something and forget to get back to it later?

I built this template to not only help organize your Slack messages but also serve as a way not to let things slip through the cracks so you can spend time Focused on your current tasks.

Best Practices and Tips

#1 Create Different Types of Follow Up Actions based on Urgency and Type

I have created the following Zaps for my Slack Messages:

Add to Task List for Today - For immediate action items that I need to take care of

Add to Coda Directory - For Items that aren’t urgent, I can read EOD or EOW.

#2 Create Tags and Categories

Sort Content by Adding

Tags⁠

and

Categories⁠

, allowing easy searching and finding later. I like to color conditional format with tags to make it easy for me to create new titles as I go. For example, I use # for any tags within the Internal category. When I begin a new label, I start with #, which automatically colors the tag yellow.

#3 Sync your Calendar for Adding Meeting Notes

I synced my Google Calendar, so I quickly added notes to meetings. Creating a message also adds the necessary info such as Description, date, and summary/agenda.