Hey everyone,
Quick question out of curiosity.
I work as a manager in a consulting firm, and a lot of my day goes into communicating across platforms like Slack, WhatsApp, Teams, LinkedIn messages, etc. Switching between all of them sometimes feels a bit messy.
A couple of things I personally struggle with are important tasks getting buried in chats and constantly jumping between apps to keep up with conversations.
Would be great to hear how you handle this in your day-to-day work.
Yeah, I agree, it’s a solid approach in theory.
But coming from a non coding background, setting up and maintaining something like that feels a bit difficult for me to realistically manage.
I’m more leaning towards something that’s easier to get started with and doesn’t need much setup or ongoing effort.
Unrelated to self hosting: jira or whatever ticketing system your company uses. They tend to have integrations into those other apps where you right click and create a ticket. Then the ticket list is my source of truth.
Yeah, makes sense, thanks for sharing.
Having a ticketing system as the source of truth for tasks and assignments is definitely helpful. But I still feel it lacks the live communication part across multiple platforms, so there’s still some switching involved.
@InsightSeeker@thelemmy.club In theory you could use Matrix and use bridges to access these. On the other hand it kills encryption because now Your endpoint is where it decrypts and re-encrypts the new messages.
Spantaleev’s Matrix Docker Ansible remains the most popular project for this (lots of documentation, good community): github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
Thanks for sharing this, hadn’t really looked into it in this much detail before.
Matrix bridges do sound pretty powerful in theory, but yeah, the encryption part you mentioned does make me pause a bit. Feels like a trade-off I’d need to really think through. Also, I’m not a coder so setting something like Spantaleev’s setup might be a bit much for me to handle regularly.
Have you tried this yourself? Was it difficult to get up and running?
@InsightSeeker@thelemmy.club Spantaleev’s setup is probably the easiest way to get matrix setup honestly. Otherwise bridges etc tend to be a pain. You don’t necessarily need to be a coder – just follow documentation instructions step by step, and ask in their matrix channel if you get stuck.
You could also set it up on a device that’s already encrypted on boot (via luks), so you’d have some protections if turned off.
I’ve been running it close to 5-7 years (don’t remember lol).
That actually makes it sound a lot more approachable. I’m not too deep into coding, but if it’s mostly about following the docs step by step, I can give it a shot.
Will definitely try this out and see how it goes.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access VPN Virtual Private Network XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.
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