Update Slack when in Focus Mode
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Ashutosh Priyadarshy
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When you are working in Sunsama you can let Sunsama automatically update your Slack status and Do not Disturb settings so you can better protect your focus.
To use, go to your Slack settings in Sunsama, and toggle on "Reduce Slack distractions when working". You will also need to re-authorize Slack to get these updates. Click the update button next to your Slack account to do this!
Check out this demo video to get started: https://www.loom.com/share/85c98ee9b91e4248af8b27bc814aad98
And this help center article if you get stuck: https://help.sunsama.com/docs/slack-update-slack-when-focused-in-sunsama
This feature is brand new and I'll likely continue improving and iterating on it over the coming days. If you've got changes or improvements you'd like to see, please let me know!
Greg Back
Ashutosh Priyadarshy: I like this feature, but would love to be able to customize the text of the status message, beyond just showing/hiding the Task Details (a fixed string is perfect for what I'd like). Let me know if I should open a new suggestion, or if just leaving it here is fine.
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
Greg Back: Can you share examples of the text you might want to show? This can give me ideas on how I might expose a customization here.
Greg Back
Ashutosh Priyadarshy: I was thinking of something as simple as "Focused" (without the Sunsama mention), or things like "Heads down, please DM only if it's urgent" or "Call 123-456-7890 for an immediate response". These can of course be set manually in Slack. I can also imagine more complicated features like using the Channel (not Task) name ("Focused on #reports"), but I don't see myself actually using that.
Kieran Taylor
Any update on this one? This would be super useful
John Day
Yep, I wholly support this. Would be super handy.
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David Atías
John Day: Same this would be very useful + updating Mac OS Focus status
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
David Atías: Unfortunately, there are no public APIs for updating OS X Focus Status though I agree that would be awesome. There are some possible workarounds I am investigating.
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
Merged in a post:
Title of task in focus appears as my Slack status
Josh Inselberg
Have the option to automatically update your Slack status as you work on a task.
Example: I'm working on "Update the mailing list". My Slack status becomes "[fun working icon] Update the mailing list".
That way someone else on my team (an unfortunate soul who doesn't use Sunsama) can see what I'm working on and contribute if they know something I don't about the task. Or not bother me if I'm working on the big, important thing.