Split Inbox for Slack: Finding Focus in the Noise
You open Slack on a Monday morning. Two hundred unread messages stare back. Half of them are chatter, a handful are relevant, and somewhere in the pile hides something urgent. The result: decision fatigue before your day even starts.
Why Slack gets overwhelming
Slack was designed for speed. That speed comes at a cost. When every channel looks equally important, your brain has to scan and sort constantly. The research is clear: frequent interruptions increase stress and errors, even as they create an illusion of speed.
A different approach
Email users discovered years ago that a split inbox makes sense. "Priority" at the top. Everything else below. You handle what matters, then move on. Slack has never given us that clarity — until tools started doing it for us.
With a split inbox inside Slack, you don't have to hunt. Important messages rise to the surface. Everything else waits. Add AI summaries on top, and you see the core of a thread without reading 150 posts.
What changes day to day
Morning begins with five items in "Priority." They get done. Midday, you skim AI summaries instead of losing an hour scrolling. Afternoon, you batch-check "Later." By evening, there's no question about what you missed.
Why this matters
Focus is about subtraction, not addition. By removing the need to triage manually, a split inbox frees up attention for work that actually matters.
If Slack still feels like an endless scroll, it may not be your habits — it may be the tool itself. That's where Float AI comes in.