@sumudu Slack has a lot of native service integrations, and with IFTTT and Zapier, there are so many possibilities.
@thrrgilag Morning. At least somebody has a three day weekend. Tomorrow is my Monday
@sumudu you're welcome. I think you'll be very happy with it. As far as I know, @larand is still loving it.
@sumudu Nope, that's all on iOS. I set all of it up from my iPhone. That's the thing I love about it, is that it the info is available regardless of where I access it from. You could set it up and have the info accessible from the Slack app on your iPad Pro as well as from your S7 with the Android Slack app.
@sumudu the Google Calendar integration can also do event reminders, and weekly summaries in addition to daily summaries. Here's a screenshot of the info I get in my daily channel. (The weather alert from IFTTT is weather for home. I haven't found an automated way of getting my current location weather info to get pushed to Slack every morning, though this would be awesome with as much as I travel)
@sumudu I'm still loving using Slack this way. The Twitter integration has been really useful the past few days for getting updates on Hurricane Matthew. I've got the National Hurricane Center's and North Carolina's Emergency Management's Twitter accounts piped into Slack.
@sumudu Yea, it's one of the functions of Google Calendar's Slack integration. Here's my post and one Larry did, as well as a more detailed breakdown of the channels I'm using.
https://thoughtsaloft.com/2016/07/19/slack-as-a-personal-information-center/
http://larryanderson.org/using-slack-as-an-information-center-mailclark
- alerts: This is the channel where most of my notifications go. I have some Google Alerts RSS feeds that are posted here via the Slack RSS integration. New Twitter follower alerts are sent here via IFTTT and tweets from the National Hurricane Center are posted here via the Slack Twitter Integration (I live in eastern North Carolina so keeping up with hurricane activity is important.)
- blogposts: This is simply a link archive of any new blog posts I publish on my sites gathered via the RSS integration. It's much simpler than trying to remember the link or searching the site for it.
- clipboard: I use this as a clipboard manager replacement.
- daily: I get a daily calendar overview at 8 am via the Google Calendar integration for my personal and family calendars and a daily weather forecast via IFTTT.
- instapaper: Links to articles I save to Instapaper are sent here via IFTTT, though this could used as an alternative to Instapaper.
- medium: Any Medium posts I bookmark are saved here via IFTTT.
- nuzzel: Any Nuzzles Alerts are sent here via Nuzzle's Slack integration.
- pricedrops: Tweets from MacStoriesDeals are posted here
- sports: Sports scores and update are posted here via IFTTT
- status_updates: Google Services Status and FastMail status updates are posted here via RSS and Slack Status updates are posted here via Twitter. I know having Slack Status updates sent to Slack may seem counterintuitive but the uptime of Slack is so high and a service outage rarely affects the entire Slack service, so I am comfortable with Slack status updates coming to Slack
- video: I use this as a YouTube Watch Later list and Favorites list replacement. It's a lot better than simply copying the YouTube link to Notes or Drafts because Slack expands the link when posted and you can see the video title and watch the video directly in Slack.
@sumudu the Google Calendar app is pretty nice on iOS, though I primarily use Fantastical and Calendars 5 for event creation and viewing. I've been happy with using Google Calendar as my calendar backend.
I've got Google Calendar setup in my personal Slack and it sends a list of all my days events at 0700 every day.
@jussipekonen ?
Is that an app for 10C that I spy with my little eye?
// @indigo