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Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by CiPHPerCoder on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:06AM (#17374500)
The most useful thing about Slack is you can press Shift+ESC (sometimes you have to press it twice) to mark all conversations as read.

Inbox zero with two keystrokes. Whoever implemented that, I'd like to buy a coffee someday.

(Also, I discovered this because I use Ctrl+Shift+ESC instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Windows Task Manager immediately without going through the intermediary screen that pops up, and one day, I missed Ctrl.)

Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by stanlarroque on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:17PM (#17375147)
And I'd like to buy you a coffee someday for teaching me about the Ctrl+Shift+ESC shortcut.
Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by CiPHPerCoder on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:44PM (#17375404)
Happy to help.

If anyone's going to DEFCON this year, I'll be hanging around the Crypto & Privacy Village a lot, so feel free to say hi.

Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by dvlsg on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:36PM (#17379394)
I remember running into a few viruses floating around that (among other wonderful behaviors) disabled the ctrl+alt+del shortcut to try to prevent you from getting to the task manager. Often ctrl+shift+esc still worked, though.
Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by SaltyBackendGuy on Friday June 22, 2018 @02:03PM (#17375990)
This, seriously, just changed my life.
Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by drather19 on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:21PM (#17375185)
Make that two coffees!
Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by nkantar on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:36PM (#17375341)
At least three.

Or other beverages, really!

Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by nunez on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:55PM (#17375496)
Holy shit; I did not know that. Thank you!
Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by dewiz on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:29PM (#17375274)
Wasn’t the Windows Start menu shortcut Ctrl+ESC?
Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by giancarlostoro on Friday June 22, 2018 @02:19PM (#17376101)
Had no idea there was another shortcut other than the Windows key, confirmed it works on Windows 10.
Re:How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy by dewiz on Friday June 22, 2018 @10:30PM (#17379147)
Yes, ctrl-esc was the original shortcut since 3.x, and when there was no Win key yet