Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Slack’s new notification schedules give you your weekends back

Slack’s new notification schedules give you your weekends back
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Slack is now letting you pull back you get notifications on a per-day basis, meaning you can finally stop getting Unformed pings over the weekend.

Previously, Unformed let you set back you were "available" to receive notifications, except those preferences would conjointly cycle over to the weekends. That meant you could get Unformed troublemaking as well as unnecessary notifications on your computer or second-hand while you were enjoying an otherwise lazy Sunday.

Now, though, you'll be brawny to set back you are commensurate getting notifications except unharmoniousness on a coating no-notification policy for weekends (or whichever days/times assignment champion for your schedule) if you want.

When you have notifications turned off, you'll be in Slack's Do Not Jade (DND) mode, meaning other users in your Unformed workspace will see a little "z" on to the dot next to your name indicating your status. While in DND, if you possible Slack, you'll still see red badges on channels where you or a keyword of yours is mentioned as well as for any downright messages, except you won't receive a notification narrowly those messages. (If they need to, though, people can still send you a notification while you're in DND by downright messaging you as well as forcing Unformed to send one.)

If you appetite to increasingly finely-tune your Unformed notifications, here's how to do so.

On the desktop app:

  1. Click on the pointer primed your Unformed organization's name, then mouse over "Pause notifications." In the menu that prototype up, collide "Set a notification schedule."
  2. In the menu that opens up, underneath the "Allow notifications" header, there will be a dropdown menu that lets you winnowed if you appetite to wimp notifications every day, only on weekdays, or on a custom schedule. There are conjointly dropdown menus to let you pick what times you're ok getting notifications.

On the mobile apps:

  1. Tap the "You" icon on the far-right of the toolbar, as well as then tap "Notifications"
  2. In the Notifications menu, tap on "Notification Schedule."
  3. Next, tap on "Allow notifications," as well as you'll be brawny to winnowed if you appetite to get notifications every day, only on weekdays, or on a custom schedule.

That's it! As well as already you've set up your preferences, they should sync lengthiness your devices. Hopefully, customizing these settings can relieve the number of notifications you get back you don't appetite to get them, as well as you can venerate weekends democratic of Unformed notifications.

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