Paco - Never miss a thing on Slack — be more calm and productive

Howdy Hunters, Thank you @kevin for hunting Paco! We love Slack - how lively and interactive it makes our virtual workplaces. But sometimes it becomes too much of a good thing. The constant chatter can interrupt our ability to do focused work. For some of us makers, it causes constant anxiety that something important might slip through the cracks. We created Paco to bring some calm focus back into our lovely Slack lives. We have been building Paco with a group of amazing early adopters over the past couple of months, and are now ready to share it with you all. Here is how it works: 🐶 Single-Player Mode Hit 'Add to Paco' from the actions menu for any message that you want to track. Paco will consolidate it into a single queue that you can process anytime you want. It will also send you a daily reminder about it at a time of your choosing. 🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Team Mode Add Paco to any team channel and watch it automatically detect messages that may need to be followed upon. Or you can mention @paco in any message and it will create a thread to follow up on it. ✅ Paco Queue Paco queue gives you peace of mind that you won't miss anything important. You can access the queue anytime within Slack using the /paco-track command, get a daily reminder, or access it on the web app. We want Paco to become that trusty sidekick that makes you more effective, giving you more time to do epic things. It is learning new tricks fast. e.g. Coming soon -- a deep work mode where it saves you from all the 'quick questions', a dedicated queue for pull reminders and pending Jira tickers, and more. Give it a try and let us know what you think! p.s. We learnt today that we are featured as a 'New & Noteworthy' app by the Slack App Directory team. The timing couldn't be better.

It is great to see a product that actually focuses on improving engineering productivity rather than just show some stats. This can be a really powerful tool for our teams @ LinkedIn. Especially love that developers can start using it on day 1 rather than waiting for a long drawn corporate approval process. Would love to know more about how you guys think about ensuring data privacy as Paco scales and becomes viral?

Almost thought it was another dog meme coin 😂 Turned out it is something useful for me👌🏻

Been using it for a few months now and it definitely helps with 'deep-work'. Congrats on the launch @arraysum

a real time saver product

Very very (x100) smart idea! I have to give it a try! Thanks for sharing ;) 🙏

Great product. There is a strong demand for a product like this that enhances the productivity at work while quietly staying in the background. Awesome work, team!

I have been a early user. Works very well to keep track of those things which tends to get missed. An invaluable asset for distributed high performance teams, esp. for WFH scenarios.

I've been using Paco for a few weeks now and it quickly became a part of my daily routine. I easily get 10-20 tasks/requests a day through Slack messages and before Paco I always had the anxiety that I'd read a message and then forget about it. Now I read messages as they come in and if they need further action I just "Add to Paco...". Once per day I set aside about an hour to go through the Paco web UI and deal with the tasks that have accumulated. Paco has already been very useful as a Slack "in tray" for me but there's also potential for many more great features to be added and I look forward to those.

We have been using Paco at our org for the last 3 months & it has turned out to be super-useful to keep strong track on pending tasks & timely reminders help a lot in efficiently resolving intra-team blockers. Great stuff @nitin_pande & team

iI am using slack for few month. and it definitely help with deep work

interesting, will sure try it out!

It looks like a fantastic product. Can't wait to try it out in our organization. Congrats on the launch!

Looking forward to using it at Nvidia.

Paco is a clever little Slack app that lowers the barrier for tracking work — a lot. Often, as teams work on a day-day basis, they need things from each other. Many of these are often untracked pieces of work, not existing on any board, roadmap, or to-dos. Come standup time, you hear a litany of "I am waiting on X for..." and then a scrum master or PM will update the ticket and board. Paco lowers this barrier by tracking those untracked asks, consolidating them, following up with individuals on both sides of a dependency and improving visibility. Because it fits into your existing communication flow, no one needs to go out of their way to do anything extra.

Anything to help re-shape expectations around Slack/chat-in-general and reduce the noise is an upvote for me

Reading "calm" & "Slack" in the same sentence drew me in. Watched the demo and this looks really promising. Wonder if there are plans to integrate other task trackers like Asana or Trello in the future?

Amazing Product! Kudos to founders for solving such a key problem.

This looks really interesting! Do you have anyone using this for customer support? We have some shared slack channels with customers for our B2B SaaS product. Making sure something that needs a reply doesn't get lost there is obviously really important. In going through the website and product demo video, the one challenge there might be there is a team of people that do customer support. Is there a way for Paco to show that some Slack member owns or is working the task that Paco is tracking?

Excellent product! It is exciting to see there is a product that really helps in organizing/prioritizing communications on messaging tools. It is a powerful tool that brings real quantifiable efficiency. Are you guys planning to integrate Paco with other communication channels - such as Symphony?