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Productivity Audit Checklist (Slack Preferences)

Phone

Homescreen

• What is immediately visible on my home screen? What does this say about what I prioritize/am focused on?
• Are the apps I want to use within a thumbs reach?
• What widgets do I use? Why?

Notifications

• What is my "notification diet"?
• Which apps consume my attention? Should I uninstall those?
  • e.g. Slack, Email

Digital Hygiene

Slack

Preferences

Replicates these settings across all Slack workspaces

Notifications

• Notify me about...
  • ( ) All new messages
  • (x) Direct messages, mentions & keywords
  • ( ) Nothing
• (x) Notify me when a huddle starts in one of my channels
• (x) Notify me about replies to threads I'm following
• My keywords - Only use if searching for specific opportunities (networking, job, friends, etc)
• Notification schedule
  • Allow Notifications
    • If work-related: Weekdays - 9:00am to 5:00pm
    • If non-work related:
      • Weekdays - 5:00pm to 9:00pm
      • Weekends - 9:00am to 9:00pm
• Set a default for reminder notifications - 10:00 AM
• Sound & appearance
  • (x) Include a preview of the message in each notification (disable this for extra privacy)
  • (x) Mute all messaging sounds from Slack
  • ( ) Mute all huddle sounds from Slack
  • Flash window when a notification is received
    • (x) Never
    • ( ) When left idle
    • ( ) Always
  • Deliver notifications via... Windows Action Center
• When I'm not active on desktop...
  • Send Notifications to my mobile devices: as soon as I'm inactive
  • ( ) Send me email notifications for mentions and direct messages
• Channel-specific notifications
  • Confluence 🔕 (Muted)
  • Jira 🔕 (Muted)

Sidebar

• Always show in the sidebar:
  • ( ) Unreads
  • ( ) Direct messages
  • (x) Later
  • ( ) Mentions & reactions
  • (x) Drafts & sent
  • ( ) Saved items
  • ( ) Slack Connect
  • ( ) All channels
  • ( ) Files
  • ( ) People & user groups
  • ( ) Apps
• Show…
  • ( ) All your conversations
  • ( ) Unread conversations only
  • (x) Custom, depending on the section
    • For Direct Messages, I show all messages
    • Figure out a general framework for grouping Slack channels into sections - Probably want one "Top of Mind" section that always shows channels, regarding of unread status
• Sort...
  • (x) Alphabetically
    • *This helps group by channel prefix (e.g. )
  • ( ) By most recent
  • ( ) By priority
• (x) Show profile photos next to DMs
• ( ) Separate private channels from public ones in sidebar
• (x) Separate direct messages and apps from channels in sidebar
• ( ) Move items with unread Mentions (1) to top of sections
• (x) Organize external conversations into the Connections section
• (x) Automatically close sidebar based on window size
• (x) Display muted items outside of sidebar menus

Themes

• (x) Sync with OS setting
• Colors - Aubergine
• ( ) Show colorful badges

Messages & Media

• Theme
  • (x) Clean
  • ( ) Compact
• Names
  • (x) Full & display names
  • ( ) Just display names
• Additional options
  • ( ) Display information about who is currently typing a message
  • ( ) Show times with 24-hour clock
  • (x) Display color swatches next to hexadecimal values
• Default Skin Tone -
• ( ) Display emoji as plain text
• (x) Show JUMBOMOJI
• (x) Convert my typed emoticons to emoji, so :D becomes 
• (x) Show one-click reactions on messages
  • ( ) My most frequently used emoji
  • (x) Custom
• (x) Inline media & links
• (x) Show images and files uploaded to Slack
• (x) Show images and files from linked websites
  • (x) Even if they're larger than 2MB
• (x) Show text previews of linked websites

Language & region

• No changes

Accessibility

• Zoom - 90%
• Links
  • (x) Underline links to websites
• Animation
  • (x) Automatically play animated GIFs and emojis
• Screen Reader - Not applicable
• Keyboard
  • Press ⬆️ in the empty message field to:
    • ( ) Move focus to the message list
    • ( ) Move focus to the message list, only if the message field is empty
    • (x) Edit your last message

Mark as read

• When I view a channel:
  • (x) Start me where I left off, and mark the channel read
  • ( ) Start me at the newest message, and mark the channel read
  • ( ) Start me at the newest message, but leave unseen messages unread
• When I mark everything as read:
  • (x) Prompt to confirm

Audio & video

• When joining a Slack call...
  • (x) Set my status to “ On a call…”
  • ( ) Mute my microphone
• When joining a huddle…
  • (x) Set my status to “ In a huddle…”
  • ( ) Mute my microphone
  • (x) Automatically turn on captions when you’re in a huddle
  • (x) Send a warning if you’re starting a huddle in a channel with more than 150 members
  • (x) Play music to let you know when you’re the last one in the huddle
  • (x) Blur your video background when you’re in a huddle with your camera on
• When Slack is in the background:
  • (x) Allow keyboard shortcut to mute
• When your screen saver starts or computer locks…
  • (x) Automatically leave calls
  • (x) Automatically leave huddles

Privacy & visibility

• Slack Connect discoverability
  • (x) Anyone with your email address
  • ( ) No one
• Contact sharing
  • (x) All your contacts
  • ( ) Only people at ode for Philly
  • ( ) No one

Advanced

• Input Options
  • (x) When typing code with ```, Enter should not send the message.
  • ( ) Format messages with markup
• When writing a message, press Enter to...
  • (x) Send the message
  • ( ) Start a new line
• Release Channel - Production
• Search options
  • Exclude these channels from search results - None
• Download location - My Google Drive downloads folder (same as Chrome)
• Confirmations and warnings
  • (x) Show me a confirmation when I use Ctrl Z to unsend a message I just sent
  • (x) Ask if I want to toggle my away status when I log in after having set myself away
  • (x) Warn me about potentially malicious links
  • (x) Warn me when sharing files with external organizations
• Other options
  • (x) Send me occasional channel suggestions via Slackbot
  • ( ) Send me occasional surveys via Slackbot
  • ( ) Disable hardware acceleration
  • (x) Launch app on login
    • (x) Hide window when launched on login
  • (x) Leave app running in notification area when the window is closed

Discord

Appearance

• Theme
  • ( ) Dark
  • ( ) Light
  • (x) Sync with computer
• Message display
  • (x) Cozy
  • ( ) Compact

Accessibility

• (x) Always underline links
• Role Colors
  • ( ) Show role colors in names
  • ( ) Show role colors next to names
  • (x) Don't show role colors
• Reduced Motion
  • (x) Automatically play GIFs when Discord is focused
  • ( ) Play animated emoji
• Stickers
  • ( ) Always animate
  • (x) Animate on interaction
  • ( ) Never animate

Notifications

• ( ) Enable Desktop Notifications
• ( ) Enable Unread Message Badge
• ( ) Enable Taskbar Flashing
• Sounds
  • ( ) Enable same-channel message notifications
  • (x) Disable All Notification Sounds
• Email Notifications - None enabled

Window Settings

• System Startup Behavior
  • (x) Open Discord
  • (x) Start Minimized