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My only recourse on some days is to shut down the app on my desktop, and let my iPhone ping me if I get a DM or mention. @here messes it all up, but I've found a way to at-a-glance determine if it's directed to me without losing much concentration.

Has anyone else gotten a good way to merge things like slack/email with Pomodoro or other focus hacks?




> The @here mention lets you notify just the team members in a channel who are currently active in Slack. @here is best for sending announcements relevant to team members that are currently working or available.

If anyone else had to Google it.


This involves that your channels are setup sanely, but I just selectively mute/unmute on a per channel basis, and try to encourage not using @here among my coworkers. I have a textexpander macro for the `/dnd 30 minutes` for my Pomodoro.


Slack does have a "Snooze" and "Do Not Disturb" setting, in case you weren't aware -> https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/214908388-Do-Not-Di... .

This alone makes Slack far more useful for me than HipChat.


Thanks for the reminder - I often forget to use those (or properly). Any good ways you've found to automate pomo timer set/rest/reset through bots?




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