¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

Consider an organization that uses Slack.

There are many channels. There is chatter, everywhere, all the time. There is noise. It’s hard to find a given thread after two or three days, lost in the sea of scrollback message threads.

Problem statement: How to cherry-pick certain messages, intended for a periodic review meeting?

For example, maybe you want to collect all issues your fellow coworkers complained about in your support channel, to file bugs/tickets about them.

Or perhaps you want to collect all on-call and outage issues experienced during the week.

Or even gather future product roadmap ideas in a board somewhere.

It is super tedious to copy and paste messages one by one. Also, to do so incurs a non-trivial cost in terms of context switching.

Enter Reacji Channeler:

With the Reacji Channeller app, you can instantly copy a message from one public channel to another using specific reaction emoji, or ‘reacji’. This comes in handy when something posted to a channel could be useful to conversations happening elsewhere across your workspace.

It is one of these simple-but-effective clever ideas, it almost feels like cheating.

The benefits 👍

— Move a message automatically from one public channel to another. — Redirect ideas and feedback or organise stray requests into relevant channels. — Increase a message’s visibility by copying it to a channel with more members

For example, you can map/assign the ⭐️ (star) emoji to automatically relay messages to the #idea channel. Or 🐛 (insect) to #bugs.

And then it becomes much easier to process all these messages at once, for upcoming review meetings. The less context switching, the better!

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