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throwaway91021 commented on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice? · Posted by u/throwaway91021

trynewideas · 3 years ago

Also I'd really strongly suggest that you push your company away from a team @ alias and toward a team channel. The only groups that should have an @ alias that punches through notification settings are on-call, and if your role IS on-call then no amount of Slack changes will reduce interrupts.

throwaway91021 · 3 years ago

People create one @ alias per team and also many others for subteams or temporary project teams, etc. There is one for oncall too. Every time one of those aliases gets tagged, I get a notification, an orange counter or sometimes messages from Slackbot asks me to join the channels.

*> punches through notification settings

I'd like to specify which aliases should not be ignored but I can't in Slack, unless I'm missing something.

Also, disabling the oragen counter is not possible (even for muted channels).

throwaway91021 commented on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice? · Posted by u/throwaway91021

figeroll · 3 years ago

That sounds like an absolute nightmare.

Is your management chain aware that you are diagnosed with ADHD? Staying off Slack should be considered a very reasonable accommodation for your condition. Perhaps go ahead and do it, but also tell them why, and how it will improve your productivity.

Alternatively maybe it's time to look for a different job with a more appropriate working environment, one that doesn't lead to such stress. How have you found previous jobs, in terms of being able to focus?

throwaway91021 · 3 years ago

> Is your management chain aware that you are diagnosed with ADHD

No, and I don't think it will help, to be honest. They will just start paying even more attention to my work and decide it's not worth it.

throwaway91021 commented on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice? · Posted by u/throwaway91021

gRoberts84 · 3 years ago

I set my notifications to "Direct messages, mentioned & keywords".

This way, you can keep it open and dip into whatever you need to but you'll not be swamped with millions of notifications.

I'd also go through all channels etc and mute or leave channels you're not actually required in any more.

throwaway91021 · 3 years ago

I have it set to "Nothing" but whenever I have the window open, I can see the orange notification conter popping up on several channels (even if I mute them).

I tried leaving channels but I get invited back whenever people tag my team, so I gave up and muted all of them (but still get the notification counter, which makes muting useless for me).

EDIT: Whenever someone tags my team, the little Slack icon on the tray bar goes red... and I don't know if that's a direct message (usually important) or someone tagging my team just "fyi". I have to check it always.

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