Noah Weiss: belief

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…Speaking of Slack, final question, what is your favorite Slack pro tip that people may not be aware of? I'm going to give two because if someone asks me this, "I'm like, these are the two things that if you're not in love with Slack, you'll fall in love with Slack." The first is obviously you have a sidebar, it can be unruly, but you can customize the sidebar into sections and each of those sections you can have settings like. "Show unread only" or "Sort by recency," or "Sort by alphabetical," whatever it might be. You can collapse the section so you don't see it all at once. I think having a well-managed sidebar, which doesn't actually take that long, it's like this amazing thing because then all this inbound is structured in an order and a grouping that fits how you want to view your working life. Customizing the sidebar. The second thing is just use the quick switcher for everything. Just hit Apple K and just start typing and it feels like they're playing a video game, just hopping around channels, people, files, search. Pretty much all the actions you can take are on as well. I think most SaaS products now have borrowed that pattern. You can use another software, but it works particularly well in Slack. No. I know the last thing you needed was to record a podcast your first week back to work. I so appreciate you making the time. It feels like we're two ships passing in the night from pat leave and to new pat leave. Two final questions. Where can folks find you online if they want to reach out and learn more and how can listeners be useful to you?…

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