Finding things in Slack is impossible. Canvases help a lot.
A messaging app is the wrong place to do any kind of organizing. Canvases help — even if they won’t be taking down Google Docs anytime soon.The best thing about Slack’s new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you. It’s like Google Docs but inside of Slack. Make a canvas, add some stuff, and share it with whoever you want. Every channel in your Slack now has a canvas attached to it, and you can also make and share as many as you want.
See, the problem with Slack is that it’s chaos. Since it’s primarily a messaging app, everything that happens in Slack happens in a chat. Chats move fast, and they resist organization; even if you’re ruthless about forcing people to thread everything, you’re going to end up with a million threads that start with things like “Question, will thread details” and “Okay, so I was thinking.
“Google Docs 100 percent still has a place in our universe,” says Ali Rayl, the SVP of product at Slack. In early testing, she’s seen Canvas occupy a different space. “The first thing we’re seeing is that it is in Slack, and there is something about having this kind of flexible space in the product already.” It may not be the most powerful text editor on earth, but there’s probably no faster way to send an onboarding document or style guide to a bunch of your colleagues.
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