I'm not excited about this. For those of you who have been on a similar transition, what tips or tricks do you have for:
* making Teams more effective as a communications medium * being able to stay on top of recent conversations * managing notifications/interruptions
Browser extensions? Specific settings you'd turn on or off? Open to any ideas at all here.
Turn off gif auto-loading.
Use @Everyone to notify everyone in a chat (versus channels).
Create a new chat to yourself as a pastebin.
Some bots can be @-mentioned personally, so you can try subcommands (like help docs) without pinging everyone in the channel.
When creating bullet lists, Shift-Enter can add to the current bullet. Nifty to paste a link, S-Enter, then include an explanation. Press Enter to start the next item.
Press ```<Space> to start a code snippet.
I’m a member of about 300 teams, have literally never looked at them.
You'll have to use channels. Channels enable connectors like webhooks*, and it's the only way to speak to folks outside being invited to chats.
* Webhooks will be deprecated in a few months in favor of Power Automate.
Better to move such important info to a journal app like obsidian
- you can pop out chats into separate sub window. Use it for important chats
- teams channels are the worst thing I have ever seen and am forced to use. No one in right mind prefers it.
Something like Obsidian is fine for personal notes, to archive useful information someone else posted in Teams, as trying to find it later will be impossible.
However, at an organizational level, I’d expect some kind of team based document management… SharePoint if they are all-in on Microsoft. From my companies brief use of MS Teams, it seemed like teams in Teams were backed my SharePoint, which made that concept pretty straight forward.
later search for it.
Unfortunately, so far, did not find how to read local db to build parallel search index.
I thought Slack was bad but Teams is absolutely the worst. I don't have any tips to share, sorry.
I'm no big fan of, or apologist for, Teams but this stuff is pretty basic and easily discovered in the UI or documentation.
2. install Slack or something else that doesn't have "Teams" in the name
Teams has reputation of being the worst team in the world. Don't rely on the worst team in the world.
Sure if you're a one person company.
It's so unstable on a Mac, it always breaks, resets my configuration and leave me in bad place during meetings, all while wasting a lot of computing resources.
Maybe get a Windows computer if you want to be less frustrated, but you'll get frustrated by other reasons then.
we have one client that uses teams and basically uses power automate to repost all the messages to slack. So the MS side and the slack people both get what they want out of it.
There is a vast array of prefab templates
You can also do most of this via graph if you would rather, but I find both to be bit painful to deal with, with power automate the infrastructure is provided so there is that, but its largely designed to be a no code drop block style environment which limits its functionality.
Graph will give you a lot of control, and allow you to create things in a consistent manager, but the management of it, and time to develop often out way the value of the functionality.
If you are on Linux install chrome and install Teams as a WPA. On Firefox i think its purposely made bad.
