Great ideas are worthless without a great team working exceptionally well together. Effective communication plays a critical role in building successful teams and is as significant as all the other factors—individual intelligence, personality, skill, and the substance of discussions—combined. When team members communicate effectively particularly around company tasks and goals, they can avoid common pitfalls such as misunderstandings, lack of trust, and conflict that can undermine team performance. But in this age of real-time communication, we are asked on a daily basis to process a lot of information, spread across multiple channels, and it’s easy to miss important messages and feel overwhelmed. Learn proven, easy to implement productivity methodologies and how to apply them to real-time collaboration tools like Slack along with Kyber, its native productivity app: smartly configure Slack channels and groups for optimal organization, learn Slack shortcuts and tricks, add to-dos, reminders and calendars on Slack through Kyber, assign tasks and schedule meetings with Kyber messages.

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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)

16. Turn Messages
Into Actions With Kyber
✅ 🔔 📅💬
And never miss the messages that matter

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What Is Kyber?
✅ 🔔 📅
Personal timelist
👥
Scheduling
🤖Assistant
MessagingProductivity
Slack
👤
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
Assigned Issue Starred Email High Priority Email Assigned Card
All your communications - and tasks - in one place
Slack 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 DoneImportant
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

29. All your communications - and tasks -
in one place
Slack Kyber
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