List of Required/Desirable features for a Communication System that Maximises Productivity

[nelsonic]

This is our "Work-in-Progress" List of Features for our "Communication System"¹:

• [ ] List of People Who are Online/Active: https://github.com/dwyl/chat/issues/38
• [ ] Store previous chat messages on the device/browser to reduce "startup" time: https://github.com/dwyl/chat/issues/8 see: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-offline-first
• [ ] chat to a person 1:1 in private.
• [ ] chat to multiple people in a group (public)
• [ ] chat to a group in private (e.g: to discuss sensitive information or decisions)
• [ ] notify me of new messages in a chat
• [ ] give me fine-grained control over notifications using "flow-based" rules.
• [ ] automatically display when I am available/busy based on the task/timer I'm working on: https://github.com/dwyl/chat/issues/35
• [ ] detect when I am on a "Slow" or "Low Bandwidth" (Mobile) network and restrict images and heartbeat to conserve data: https://github.com/dwyl/chat/issues/34

Please add to this list and where you can. open a new issue with more detail and link to the feature-issue.

¹The repo is called "Chat" because messaging is the primary functionality. But Where other Instant Messaging platforms are a source of disruption/distraction ours will hook into https://github.com/dwyl/time and protect people when they are doing focussed work!

[newswim]

Canned responses and/or FAQ during "focus mode"

[newswim]

Better "Sign-Up" flow -- right now you basically have to spin up a Heroku app to get an invite to a new slack team.