Introduction

It is April of 2021, and we have been living for more than a year in the pandemic. As a result, it has meant that we all are spending a significant amount of time working, socializing and entertaining ourselves digitally.

I work for a burgeoning startup focused on improving the private aviation space. Our firm makes extensive use of Slack as our primary means of communication.

The intent of this blog post is to capture some practices to improve the collaboration experience in Slack. The notes below are practices that can be implemented to help manage slack in a more effective way.

In the words of Dr Bonnie Henry “Lets all remember..to be calm, be kind and to stay safe”

Contents

1. Using Emoji
2. Using Drafts
3. Using Posts

Using Emoji

Emjoi

• 👀 (:eyes:) I’m looking into it
• ✅  (:white_check_mark:) Complete or approved
• 🙏 (:pray:) Please or thank you
• 🙇 (:woman-bowing:) Thank you
• ➕ (:heavy_plus_sign:) I agree
• 👌 (:ok_hand:) OK! Or, I understand 
• 👋 (:wave:) Hello! Or, I can help you with that
• 🙌 (:raised_hands:) Yeah!
• ♻️ (:recycle:) Rework comments provided

Additional icons for MR review When you need it by

• 🕔 (:clock5:) End of day or select 🕘 (:clock9: - clock9).., 🕛 (:clock12: - clock12),.. 🕔 (:clock5: - clock5)
• 📅 (:calendar:) Tomorrow or not urgent

slackmojis.com

Using Drafts

Using Posts

• Staying organized using Slack Post feature (Hidden behind the lightning bolt symbol)
• Create Index, ToDos, Future Log, Daily Log

Index Post

Label,Category,Tag,Date	Post-Id
Future Log	Future Log 2021
Slack Best Practice	2021-03-23
April 2021	202103W1, 202103W2, 202103W3, 202103W4

Future Log

Future Log 2021

Month (eg April 2021)	Month (eg May 2021)
…	…

Month (eg June 2021)	Month (eg July 2021)
…	…

Month (eg August 2021)	Month (eg Sept 2021)
…	…

202103W1

April Week 1

April 1

• April Fools Day

202103W2

April Week 2

April 8

• Team meeting