Slack Notification Management During Meetings Is Non-Obvious and Interruptive
Slack users in meetings struggle to quickly silence or pause notifications mid-session because the controls for doing so are not intuitively discoverable. The constant notification flow interrupts focus during meetings and calls. Calendar-integrated automatic DND exists but is not widely known or configured, leaving users manually managing distractions.
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