The Over-App-ed Syndrome

An app is supposed to make our lives simpler, not more complex. Maybe it’s time to go old-school.

To-Do List — Old School (Source: Abigail Carter)

Every night, slack-bot notifications on my Apple watch cause my wrist to buzz almost incessantly for five minutes. Of course, I can’t help but glance down every time.

Finding the right tools for the job

I work for a small boutique tea company doing their social media.

The founder recently switched our tiny organization onto Slack, retiring our Apple message group, “The Knights Templar Royal Academy Of Chesser Roe Secret Society Of Tea Nerds,” where we discussed everything from our favorite TV episodes to passwords to sharing photos for use on social.

It worked but wasn’t ideal. Photos and important info disappeared into message-ether. So the switch to Slack made sense.

For our founder, (I should mention here that he is rather ADHD and he *loves* technology), switching to Slack opened the flood gates to its integrated apps.

We were soon inundated with notifications about new integrated app installs: Workstreams, Todoist, Trello, Creative Cloud, Intercom.

We already grappled with Office 365, where oddly I can never find the files I need. We…