One of my main problems with Slack (as opposed to email) is that I can’t seem to find a reasonable way to deal with messages later. The reminder approach doesn’t do it for me at all. How do you handle todos?
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Slack is not a todo list. Create a task in an actual todo list, copy the link to the slack message into the task for context.
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Makes sense. How do you actually handle that while, say, on the road and reading a slack message on your phone?
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When I get a message which ends in a to-do for me, but I have no time to put it in my to-do-list then I just mark the received message as unread. When I open Slack later again I go through unread messages and find the one I marked before and create a to-do out of it.
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Replying to @Paula_Lehmann @cweagans
I’ve used and failed at that approach, mostly because messages change from unread to read accidentally all the time

Feb 13, 2020 · 8:26 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @cweagans
Yes this can happen. My workaround here is that after I marked a message as unread I switch the channel/conversation before I close the app. Works. But to be honest I need this maybe once or twice a week. For all other moments I create immediatly a Trello card.
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I use the channel-switching workaround, too, and it makes me really unhappy
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Replying to @stilkov @Paula_Lehmann
IMO: Uninstall Slack from your phone. Only process stuff in a place where you're able to actually deal with them. I did that, and it was a really important step forward for my workflow.
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