¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

I’ve been greatly enjoying the Active only conversation filter on Slack:

Choose how you’d like to filter your conversations. By default, you’ll see Active only, which will hide conversations with no new activity in the past 30 days.

“Dead” channels (and chats) eventually become hidden¹, active ones bubble up.

Pairing it up with VIP contacts² and muting makes Slack a breeze to use.

To activate it, from the left sidebar, click the gear/settings icon > Filter and sort > Active only.

My left sidebar structure currently looks like this:

• External connections (outside my Organization)
• TechOps (our internal SRE / DevOps team)
  • …TechOps teammates
  • …TechOps channels
• Alerts
  • …Channels for Incident Management (ephemeral in nature).
  • …Channels for alerts / monitoring / notifications. Most of them are muted, except the actionable and/or critical ones.
• Site
  • …Channels related to my workplace (city, country, social groups, etc)
• Everything else (unmanaged, ungrouped)

In the past I tried to overzealously micromanage the organization / labelling of channels; that proved to be a mistake. I am quite happy with my current setup.