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Make you and your team super 💪 productive

with Slack

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Agenda• Learn how to get the best out of Slack

• Slack overview

• Get more productive with channels, search, shortcuts

• Stay on top of Slack (and minimize information overload)

• Boost your and your team productivity with Kyber for Slack

• Task delegation

• Scheduling

• Personal productivity

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Why Slack? (And how is different from email)

• Transparent, real time communications in one place

• Structured information through channels, consistent for every team member

• Advanced contextual search

• Apps and bots

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Navigate Slack

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Understand Slack Transitioning From Email

(*) Requires list/channel admin approval

Email Slack

Open Mailing list To: engineering@email.com

Public Channel #engineering

Closed (*) Mailing list To: hr@email.com

Private (*) Channel 🔒 hr

Group email To: user1@email.com, …, userN@emailM.com

Group Messages @user1,…, @userN

Direct email To: user@email.com

Direct Message @user

N/A Mention in a conversation … @user …

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Smartly Organize Channels Pro tip: Use prefixes

• Teams: #team-engineering, #team-design, #team-marketing

• Location: #office-sf, #office-nyc, #office-milano

• Project: #proj-website or #rel-1.2.0

• Announcements: #announcements

• Integrations: #github, #kyber

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Leverage Search Pro tip: Enter + to improve results

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Leverage Search Pro tip: Click on Jump to view context

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Use Keyboard Shortcuts Pro tip: Use “Cmd /“ to get all

• Power tip: Esc to mark all msg as read

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• Check recent mentions

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How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)

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How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)

• Check recent mentions

• Star channels

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• Check recent mentions

• Star channels

• Customize your Channel List Preferences

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How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)

Preferences => Advanced Options => Channel List

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• Check recent mentions

• Star channels

• Customize your Channel List Preferences

• Customize notifications by channel

Pro Tip: Use /mute in a noise channel

How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)

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• Check recent mentions

• Star channels

• Customize your Channel List Preferences

• Customize notifications by channel

• Set up highlight words

Preferences => Notifications

How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)

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• Check recent mentions

• Star channels

• Customize your Channel List Preferences

• Customize notifications by channel

• Set up highlight words

• Use Do Not Disturb (DnD)/Snooze

How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)

Turn Messages Into Actions With Kyber

✅ 🔔 📅💬

And never miss the messages that matter

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What Is Kyber?

✅ 🔔 📅Personal timelist

👥Scheduling

🤖Assistant

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👤Delegation

Kyber Messaging

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Make Things Happen With Only 5 Commands

• Create

/do [what to do], [when], [where], [checklist:]

/ask @user to [what to do], [when], [where], [checklist:]

/meet @user to [what to do], [when], [where], [checklist:]

• View and update

/show [today/date/all/sent/sent to @user]

/complete [what]

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Task Delegation

• Messages are transformed into tasks, assigned to recipient as ✅ to-dos, 🔔 reminders or 📅 events

• Recipient is automatically notified and reminded

• Tasks are added to recipient’s timelist and tracked on sender’s sent list

• Sender is informed when task is completed or can follow up

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• Invites are sent through messages

• Meeting is added to both sender’s and recipients’ timelist

• Every attendee is reminded about the meeting at start or earlier

• Sync’ed calendars are automatically checked for availability and updated

Scheduling

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Timelist One place to rule your day

• ✅ To-dos, 🔔 reminders, 📅 events are combined in a single daily view to help you:

• Sync’s with any calendar, e.g. Google, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, etc.

• Not urgent to-dos can be added to a separate Someday list

Plan your day

Keep the focus

Really get more done

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Timelist Kyber Channel on IFTTT

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All your communications - and tasks - in one placeSlack Kyber

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3 Easy Steps To Really Get Things Done

1. Enter everything (*) you have to do in Kyber: use Timelist to schedule tasks, Someday list for later

2. Keep your daily timelist short - Start from calendars & reminders, and add few important to-dos; snooze others, even during the day

(*) You can use Siri or Alexa too!

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3 Easy Steps To Really Get Things Done

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Urgent

Use Eisenhower Decision Matrix to pick to-dos to add to timelist

Add it to today in timelist

Schedule it in timelist

Add it to Someday

Delegate it with /ask

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3 Easy Steps To Really Get Things Done

1. Enter everything (*) you have to do in Kyber: use Timelist to schedule tasks, Someday list for later

2. Keep your daily timelist short - Start from calendars & reminders, and add few important to-dos; snooze others, even during the day

3. Just do it - The short list has the important tasks: Keep going back to the plan and simply act on it

(*) You can use Siri or Alexa too!

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Kyber for iOS The visual and contextual mobile app

• 💬: Contextual messaging

• 👤: Delegation

• 👥: Scheduling

• ✅ 🔔 📅 : Visual timelist & Calendar sync

• ⏰: Alerts

• 📍: Maps

• 🚗: Uber or driving directions

• ✨: Gifs

Click to download

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Why Kyber?• Separates important messages from noise

• Lets you create tasks in the context of the conversation

• Offers a unique, powerful personal productivity tool

• Extends to any services via IFTTT to aggregate all your tasks in one place

• Fully native to Slack

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Useful Links• Slack

• Kyber for Slack

• Kyber for iOS

• Kyber channel on IFTTT

• Kyber website

• Kyber blog

• Contact: info@kyber.me

All your communications - and tasks - in one place

Slack Kyber

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