Gator

Smart scheduled delivery for your Slack messages. Add Gator to your Slack team at ✨

[Gator @slashgator]

Today’s my big day! Later is now ready to anyone to try 🍾

Do you work with #remote coworkers in different time zones? Or use Slack after hours? Send a message with “/later” and I’ll wait to deliver it until 9:00 AM in your recipient’s time zone.

https://t.co/n7Mi4by4ct

[Gator @slashgator]

@dont_duh Oh no! So sorry to hear it! Can you shoot us an email at [email protected] with your Slack username? That will help us investigate things on our back end

[Gator @slashgator]

The power users among you might notice the "Turn on early delivery" menu option is gone. But don't worry! It's still just a couple clicks away.

You'll find it inside the "🕘 Change delivery time" menu option as its own special little checkbox.

[Gator @slashgator]

Ever spotted a typo in one of your Gator messages? Or had an extra thought you wanted to include after you created your message?

Your days of "copy your text ➡️ delete the message ➡️ paste it into a new one" are over. As of today, Gator now has an edit button! ✏️🥳

[Gator @slashgator]

It works just like you would expect: click "✏️ Edit this message" on one of your pending Gator messages and you'll see a window like this.

Click "Save" and that's it! Your message will be delivered with your updated prose 💥

[Remote Tools @RemoteTools]

Top 5 Remote Products this Week 🔝

1. Gator (@slashgator)
2. PentryForms
3. Kooler
4. Virbela (@VirbelaHQ)
5. ZenTao (@ZentaoA)

Join the discussion 👉https://t.co/NqoQGw5eq4

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#remotework #remoteworking

[Hello Remote Tools 👋 @RemoteHello]

Send your message now, let Gator deliver it later

Gator (@slashgator) is a smart scheduled delivery tool for your Slack messages.

📢 Check out Gator at https://t.co/p9exCpFSsd

[Gator @slashgator]

I'll then store and deliver your new message just like any other Gator message, except when I deliver it, it will appear as a reply in that thread instead of as a new message in that Slack channel.

Read more about how Gator works with threads here: https://t.co/Tg0aDXt6HF

[Gator @slashgator]

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

For years, you've asked me "How can I use Gator in a Slack thread?" Slack still doesn't allow slash commands in threads, but I found the next best thing.

Introducing... "Schedule a reply" 🎉

[Gator @slashgator]

Here's how to do it:

1) Click the "..." menu next to any Slack message
2) Open "Schedule a reply" at the bottom of the menu (you may need to click "More message shortcuts" and search for "Gator")
3) Author your message and confirm its delivery time

And that's it!

[Lizzie Siegle @lizziepika]

Did you know you can search Google from your command line with @ohmyzsh?

Learned a LOT for my latest post on the @twilio blog, 9 zsh tricks to blow your mind ⤵️⤵️
https://t.co/j0xYBw4tAX

[Gator @slashgator]

Just finished some work in the lab 🧑‍🔬

For most users 9:00 AM works well as the delivery time for new messages. But maybe you're a rebel, itching to go your own way?

Now you can set your own default delivery time:

/gator beta-set-delivery-time 08:30

https://t.co/8pvEJdboyL

[Gator @slashgator]

✨ New feature for Gator subscribers ✨

Need to update your payment method or download old invoices to use for an expense report? Now you can do that without contacting us - just say "/gator billing" in Slack to get a link to your Gator billing settings

[Gator @slashgator]

@WookieeBoy @andrewtorkbaker Hey Shawn! Thanks again for emailing in about this one too. Thanks to your input this feature is live!

[Gator @slashgator]

New beta feature! 🧪

When I deliver your Slack message, I include a "(sent with '/gator')" note so your recipient knows you authored the message earlier.

But some of you would prefer I didn't! Here's how to turn that feature off and keep me 🤐

https://t.co/QuM3E98OKE

[Gator @slashgator]

Just totaled up Gator's 2020! Now 4,250 of you have used Gator to send 85,000 scheduled Slack messages. That adds up to 900,000(!) hours where you didn't disturb a coworker with a message that could wait.

Want to see your own stats? Run "/gator stats" and share 'em here!

[Gator @slashgator]

@bankes1989 Hi there! Unfortunately this is a limitation of the @SlackAPI - they don’t pass along any attachments when they hand your new message from the Slack UI to Gator.

I’ll add your feedback to our running thread with Slack support. Hopefully we’ll get this feature unblocked 🤞

[Gator @slashgator]

Thanks for the shout out @lizziepika 🙌

[CTO.ai @CTO_ai]

Slack Hacks: 14 Ideas for Developer & DevOps Workflows in @SlackHQ from engineers at @AWSCloud @Twilio @LyftEng @atlassiandev and more: https://t.co/fafCV61kNm

[Gator @slashgator]

Don't be that coworker who sends Slack messages after hours! Even well-intentioned coworkers can fall victim to this trap when working across time zones on a #remote team. Learn why scheduling your Slack messages be so powerful in our latest post https://t.co/y0eNAH7dS4

[Gator @slashgator]

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN 👩‍⚖️

As of today new messages you send with "/gator" will, by default, be delivered exactly on schedule. Still want a recipient to get your message as soon as they go green in Slack? Use the "Turn on early delivery" menu option to opt-in to early delivery 👀

[Gator @slashgator]

I hit a big milestone over the weekend: 20,000 messages! That adds up to over 145,000 hours in which considerate coworkers didn't disturb each other with unnecessary notifications 🎉

Add Gator to your Slack team and start scheduling your own messages: https://t.co/cD4HX1Ocd3