Slack is adding new features to its mobile app. This is intended to help you prioritize all your unread items a little more quickly. It's called Catch Up, and it can only be described as the Tinder for enterprise messaging. Tap „Catch Up“ at the top of the app's home screen and he will see one channel or DM at a time. Swipe left to mark it as read, swipe right to mark it as unread.
Catch Up is a response to two things that Slack's director of product management, Akshay Bakshi, says the company is thinking about a lot. first, many It's happening in Slack, and all you have to do is open every channel one by one, check in, and mark it as read in the sidebar. Next, many people use their phones as their Slack triage devices. „I do a super-fast 30-second session before I go to my desk in the morning, when I'm away from my desk, or at lunch just to catch up. And then I put off anything I want to get back to my desktop.“ The swipe-like approach is an effort to make the process feel fun and easy, unlike checking email or scrolling through another feed, he says.
At Slack, we're always looking for ways to make our apps more powerful, more feature-rich, and at the center of everything you and your company do, without becoming bloated and cluttered. Over the past few months, Slack has made a number of changes. Almost complete redesign of the app — An effort to provide a way to organize and prioritize everything.
In fact, Catch Up ignores most of its organization. This is a return to what Slack used to be: a sidebar full of read and unread information. When he swipes „Catch Up,“ Slack does not place the right swipe in the „Later“ section, which he uses as his to-do list. It simply leaves it unread. (You can also press and hold a card to save it for later, but this is intentionally hidden.) This may not be the best way to use Slack as recommended by your company. No, but Ethan Eisman, Slack's senior vice president of design, says that's fine. „The nice thing about read/unread is that it's kind of a fire escape,“ he says. „If you're not ready to make a decision…unread. That's easy.“
Bakshi says Catch Up still has a lot of work to do, including using AI to summarize and organize cards to make swipe-based decisions even faster. For now, we're focusing on organizing users' own channels and chats to understand what they're most interested in, but over time we may be able to approach the system in more sophisticated ways. he says he can't.
Catch Up launches today for non-paid Slack users on iOS and Android, and Slack says it will soon roll out to paid users. It's also coming to iPad, but in a slightly different format. Eisman says he doesn't think the swipe tool will make it to the Slack desktop app anytime soon, but he does think there's plenty of opportunity to enhance triage and organization on computers. Masu. „The idea of providing more focus mode on the desktop is an idea we've been exploring,“ he says. „If I were a betting man, I would say that next year he's going to start having a more focused experience with Slack.“