Hey everyone,

Quick question out of curiosity.

I work as a manager in a consulting firm, and a lot of my day goes into communicating across platforms like Slack, WhatsApp, Teams, LinkedIn messages, etc. Switching between all of them sometimes feels a bit messy.

A couple of things I personally struggle with are important tasks getting buried in chats and constantly jumping between apps to keep up with conversations.

Would be great to hear how you handle this in your day-to-day work.

  • northernlights@lemmy.todayEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Matrix bridges. I run my own matrix instance with bridges to the services I use (google messages, whatsapp, irc, discord; there are other bridges available) so I can use one client for all.

    • InsightSeeker@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Thanks for sharing this. It sounds like a powerful setup, but I’m not very technical, so managing a Matrix instance feels a bit complex for my use case. I’ve also tried integrating Google Chat, but it hasn’t been possible due to recent changes in Google’s security policies, which makes it harder to rely on as a complete solution

      • northernlights@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        I’m a bit late to the party but the stack I run is what Beeper uses. If you don’t mind handing them your IMs it’s exactly what they host and it works great (used it for a year before I decided to host my own things). They make you use their client but AFAIK beeper.com is really just a very fancy matrix instance so you could use probably any Matrix client.

        As for managing an instance, see my recent comment about DB maintenance. There’s nothing more to it than that as far as maintenance is concerned for just a few users instance. Then installing the bridges isn’t hard because the docs are really good.