The ultimate guide to make you and your team insanely productive using Slack (and Kyber)

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    Companyons, Inc. Agenda • Learnhow 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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    Companyons, Inc. Why Slack? (Andhow 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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    Companyons, Inc. Understand Slack TransitioningFrom 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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    Companyons, Inc. Smartly OrganizeChannels 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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    Companyons, Inc. • Checkrecent mentions . . How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload)

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    Companyons, Inc. How ToStay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload) • Check recent mentions • Star channels . .

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    Companyons, Inc. • Checkrecent mentions • Star channels • Customize your Channel List Preferences . . How To Stay On Top Of Slack (And how to reduce notifications overload) Preferences => Advanced Options => Channel List

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    Companyons, Inc. • Checkrecent 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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    Companyons, Inc. • Checkrecent 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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    Companyons, Inc. • Checkrecent 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)

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    Companyons, Inc. What IsKyber? ✅ 🔔 📅 Personal timelist 👥 Scheduling 🤖Assistant MessagingProductivity Slack 👤 Delegation Kyber Messaging

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    Companyons, Inc. Make ThingsHappen 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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    Companyons, Inc. 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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    Companyons, Inc. • Invitesare 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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    Companyons, Inc. Timelist One placeto 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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    Companyons, Inc. Timelist Kyber Channelon IFTTT Assigned Issue Starred Email High Priority Email Assigned Card All your communications - and tasks - in one place Slack Kyber + …

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    Companyons, Inc. 3 EasySteps 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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    Companyons, Inc. 3 EasySteps 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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    Companyons, Inc. 3 EasySteps 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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    Companyons, Inc. Kyber foriOS 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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    Companyons, Inc. 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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    Companyons, Inc. Useful Links •Slack • Kyber for Slack • Kyber for iOS • Kyber channel on IFTTT • Kyber website • Kyber blog • Contact: info@kyber.me

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