![]() Trust me, I’ve been doing this for the last 3-4 years. These two communication channels don’t get mixed up anymore. This way you and your team are always on the same page and you can decide when you want to focus on working with your people and when you want to check out what’s happening in the outside world. Use email only to connect with people outside of your team and use specific tools to communicate through tasks and through chats with your team. So there you go, don’t be afraid: BAN EMAILS. Ban your emails, use specific apps to communicate through actionable items with your team When you comment on a specific task, there’s no doubt what the comment applies to. With email, things can go in different directions and very often in one email people try to tackle different things. The cool thing about approaching communication through tasks is the fact that all relevant communication is attached to the task at hand. This is where I can be on top of things happening in my company. People ask me how I deal with my email inbox if my communication goes through Nozbe but the truth is that my new inbox is my “new comments” section in Nozbe. My new inbox is my “comments” section in Nozbe However, whenever an item becomes actionable we create a task for it and put it in an appropriate project in Nozbe. We use Slack for our company chat just to blah blah about things and send funny GIFs and other stuff. We totally avoid all these issues of somebody not copying someone on something or forgetting to BCC or whatever… We use Slack as our company chat room to simply “blah blah blah”… People see what’s happening in each project, who’s responsible for what. Without distractions.īy sharing projects and tasks we have more transparency. This gives them space to focus on their current work. Such communication is asynchronous so if I add a comment for someone I know they will work on it when they choose to, not when I say so. We communicate through tasks in the comment section of each task. Download Nozbe: Productive team for macOS 10.12 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. ![]() Nozbe is our main business communication app because we create shared projects and create tasks in these projects. This is how we communicate: Nozbe is to communicate through tasks To solve this problem we designed a new way to communicate: we use email for the outside world and something else for “internal communication.” We use two apps for that: Slack and Nozbe. Originally posted on my personal blog If you manage your projects through email you are doing it wrong!Įmail is bad for you and your team because we get too many messages every day and the important internal emails get mixed up with other correspondence with people from the outside world. Only allow email to the “outside world” and ban email within your team. You actually should if you want to have a productive environment for your team. They give me this “Can you do that?” face. ![]() Whenever I talk about “No Office,” people ask me about my email policy and they’re surprised that we banned email in our company. Something I didn’t think was new but now I see it really is. We value passion, a sense of humor, the drive to create awesome things, and a penchant for learning new stuff in the process.There’s a new book “Under New Management” by David Burkus coming soon that includes some unconventional management practices, and one of them is apparently “banning email.” Something I did in my company three years ago. We put a lot of effort into every pixel we draw and every line of code we write. Our work has been featured in the New York Post, TechCrunch, Lifehacker and Fast Company, TUAW, CIO, among others. ![]() We also work for well-known, global corporations as well as early-stage startups, turning their app ideas into high-quality products. We have released over 20 apps to date, totaling in over 500,000 downloads worldwide, and have received more than 1500 written reviews in the App Store with an average of 4/5 stars. Macoscope is a team of experienced designers and developers focused on iOS and OS X platforms. As an Intern, you will spend 2 months as an integral part of our engineering team, working with us on our products for iOS as well as implementing your own ideas.
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