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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I’ve used and failed at that approach, mostly because messages change from unread to read accidentally all the time
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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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Replying to @Paula_Lehmann @cweagans
I use the channel-switching workaround, too, and it makes me really unhappy

Feb 14, 2020 · 6:47 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @cweagans
I know what you mean. 😩 I discovered that you can mark a messages as "Star Message". You then find all starred messages in a separate starred items list. Then you "just" need a reminder to look at the list, but here it might be possible to create a habit. I'll give it a try.
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