I Love Slack's New Lists Feature So Much I Wish It Was A Standalone App

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

Slack has a caller Lists characteristic that levels up your productivity.
You tin create boards and lists to way your projects.
There's besides a template assemblage to make utilizing Lists easier.

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I usage Slack -- a lot. Several of my clients require Slack for connection and collaboration. Because I constitute truthful overmuch for respective organizations, it's easy to get mislaid successful nan process, which is why I was gladsome to find retired that Slack has taken lists seriously.

Perhaps you're thinking, "But I've been capable to adhd bulleted lists into my threads and DMs for a agelong time." That's true, but nan caller Lists characteristic is simply a full different tin of feline food.

What is nan caller List feature?

The caller Slack List characteristic allows you to create lists successful a centralized location. But it's overmuch much than that. Not only tin you create caller lists, but you tin besides import lists from CSV files aliases moreover usage templates to create your lists. And that's conscionable scratching nan aboveground of nan disposable features.

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The templates characteristic unsocial makes Lists worthy using. You'll find templates for woody tracking, feedback, bug tracking, task tracking, quarterly planning, thief requests, backlog tracking, and interaction tracking. Each template includes its ain characteristic group (such arsenic prima ratings, description, status, and more. You tin create lists arsenic tables aliases kanban boards, adhd details, and overmuch more.

Think of nan caller characteristic arsenic a supercharged database option. With this feature, you tin create and usage lists that are acold much useful than a modular postulation of bulleted aliases numbered database items. This caller database characteristic is each astir productivity and management.

I wish Slack would merchandise its List characteristic arsenic a standalone app. I'd usage that successful a heartbeat.

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The caller List characteristic is arsenic user-friendly arsenic immoderate different Slack feature. The only point I've yet to fig retired is really to adhd colour to a civilization database (as you'll spot successful immoderate of nan disposable templates).

Keep successful mind that if you usage Slack pinch a company, they mightiness not person nan database characteristic enabled. If that's nan case, I would urge that you scope retired to whoever administers nan institution Slack relationship and inquire them to alteration Lists.

How to usage nan Slack List feature

To entree your Lists dashboard, unfastened Slack and past click nan More button. Click Lists from nan pop-up, and nan Lists dashboard will beryllium beforehand and center.

Click New > Blank List, and a caller model will popular up. Here, you tin either statesman customizing nan caller database aliases prime from nan database of disposable templates.

A caller database created successful Slack.

I urge checking retired nan template gallery. If there's a template you tin usage for your caller list, it will prevention you immoderate clip successful mounting it up. If you don't find a usable template, customize your database successful nan caller window.

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If you want to move nan caller database from a array to a committee (I do emotion a bully Kanban board), click nan Settings fastener and then, from nan resulting pop-up, click Board. The only point I person yet to fig retired pinch nan Board action is really to adhd a caller Group (column). This should beryllium obvious, but it's not.

Unfortunately, moreover nan charismatic Slack archiving is nary thief present (there isn't moreover a mention of adding groups). The only action I've recovered for this is to usage a committee template (such arsenic bug tracking) and past edit nan groups (and different bits of information) to amended suit your needs.

The Edit View pop-up successful Slack Lists.

Hopefully, Slack will make it easier/possible to adhd caller groups to a board; otherwise, you're constricted to boards pinch conscionable 2 columns, and that's not ever helpful.

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Even pinch nan oversight connected boards, nan caller List characteristic makes utilizing Slack moreover much productive.

If you are a instrumentality of statement and task management, nan caller Slack Lists characteristic will beryllium correct up your alley, truthful hop onto your account, unfastened nan Lists dashboard, and commencement creating.