the ultimate guide to make you and your team insanely productive using slack (and kyber)
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Make you and your team super đŞ productive
with Slack
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Agenda⢠Learn how to get the best out of Slack
⢠Slack overview
⢠Get more productive with channels, search, shortcuts
⢠Stay on top of Slack (and minimize information overload)
⢠Boost your and your team productivity with Kyber for Slack
⢠Task delegation
⢠Scheduling
⢠Personal productivity
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Why Slack? (And how is different from email)
⢠Transparent, real time communications in one place
⢠Structured information through channels, consistent for every team member
⢠Advanced contextual search
⢠Apps and bots
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Navigate Slack
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Understand Slack Transitioning From Email
(*) Requires list/channel admin approval
Email Slack
Open Mailing list To: [email protected]
Public Channel #engineering
Closed (*) Mailing list To: [email protected]
Private (*) Channel đ hr
Group email To: [email protected], âŚ, [email protected]
Group Messages @user1,âŚ, @userN
Direct email To: [email protected]
Direct Message @user
N/A Mention in a conversation ⌠@user âŚ
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Smartly Organize Channels Pro tip: Use prefixes
⢠Teams: #team-engineering, #team-design, #team-marketing
⢠Location: #office-sf, #office-nyc, #office-milano
⢠Project: #proj-website or #rel-1.2.0
⢠Announcements: #announcements
⢠Integrations: #github, #kyber
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Leverage Search Pro tip: Enter + to improve results
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Leverage Search Pro tip: Click on Jump to view context
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Use Keyboard Shortcuts Pro tip: Use âCmd /â to get all
⢠Power tip: Esc to mark all msg as read
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⢠Check recent mentions
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How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)
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How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)
⢠Check recent mentions
⢠Star channels
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⢠Check recent mentions
⢠Star channels
⢠Customize your Channel List Preferences
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How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)
Preferences => Advanced Options => Channel List
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⢠Check recent mentions
⢠Star channels
⢠Customize your Channel List Preferences
⢠Customize notifications by channel
Pro Tip: Use /mute in a noise channel
How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)
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⢠Check recent mentions
⢠Star channels
⢠Customize your Channel List Preferences
⢠Customize notifications by channel
⢠Set up highlight words
Preferences => Notifications
How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)
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⢠Check recent mentions
⢠Star channels
⢠Customize your Channel List Preferences
⢠Customize notifications by channel
⢠Set up highlight words
⢠Use Do Not Disturb (DnD)/Snooze
How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)
Turn Messages Into Actions With Kyber
â đ đ đŹ
And never miss the messages that matter
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What Is Kyber?
â đ đ Personal timelist
đĽScheduling
đ¤Assistant
Mes
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tivity
Slack
đ¤Delegation
Kyber Messaging
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Make Things Happen With Only 5 Commands
⢠Create
/do [what to do], [when], [where], [checklist:]
/ask @user to [what to do], [when], [where], [checklist:]
/meet @user to [what to do], [when], [where], [checklist:]
⢠View and update
/show [today/date/all/sent/sent to @user]
/complete [what]
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Task Delegation
⢠Messages are transformed into tasks, assigned to recipient as â to-dos, đ reminders or đ events
⢠Recipient is automatically notified and reminded
⢠Tasks are added to recipientâs timelist and tracked on senderâs sent list
⢠Sender is informed when task is completed or can follow up
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⢠Invites are sent through messages
⢠Meeting is added to both senderâs and recipientsâ timelist
⢠Every attendee is reminded about the meeting at start or earlier
⢠Syncâed calendars are automatically checked for availability and updated
Scheduling
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Timelist One place to rule your day
⢠â To-dos, đ reminders, đ events are combined in a single daily view to help you:
⢠Syncâs with any calendar, e.g. Google, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, etc.
⢠Not urgent to-dos can be added to a separate Someday list
Plan your day
Keep the focus
Really get more done
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Timelist Kyber Channel on IFTTT
Assigned Issue Starred Email High Priority Email Assigned Card
All your communications - and tasks - in one placeSlack Kyber
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3 Easy Steps To Really Get Things Done
1. Enter everything (*) you have to do in Kyber: use Timelist to schedule tasks, Someday list for later
2. Keep your daily timelist short - Start from calendars & reminders, and add few important to-dos; snooze others, even during the day
(*) You can use Siri or Alexa too!
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3 Easy Steps To Really Get Things Done
Impo
rtant
Urgent
Use Eisenhower Decision Matrix to pick to-dos to add to timelist
Add it to today in timelist
Schedule it in timelist
Add it to Someday
Delegate it with /ask
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3 Easy Steps To Really Get Things Done
1. Enter everything (*) you have to do in Kyber: use Timelist to schedule tasks, Someday list for later
2. Keep your daily timelist short - Start from calendars & reminders, and add few important to-dos; snooze others, even during the day
3. Just do it - The short list has the important tasks: Keep going back to the plan and simply act on it
(*) You can use Siri or Alexa too!
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Kyber for iOS The visual and contextual mobile app
⢠đŹ: Contextual messaging
⢠đ¤: Delegation
⢠đĽ: Scheduling
⢠â đ đ : Visual timelist & Calendar sync
⢠â°: Alerts
⢠đ: Maps
⢠đ: Uber or driving directions
⢠â¨: Gifs
Click to download
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Why Kyber?⢠Separates important messages from noise
⢠Lets you create tasks in the context of the conversation
⢠Offers a unique, powerful personal productivity tool
⢠Extends to any services via IFTTT to aggregate all your tasks in one place
⢠Fully native to Slack
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Useful Links⢠Slack
⢠Kyber for Slack
⢠Kyber for iOS
⢠Kyber channel on IFTTT
⢠Kyber website
⢠Kyber blog
⢠Contact: [email protected]
All your communications - and tasks - in one place
Slack Kyber
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