Smithy

High-volume, disorganised chat can hurt productivity and foster team misalignment. Smithy is an app for Slack that keeps things organised by ensuring all conversations in designated channels are kept threaded and decisions are clearly surfaced.

• Keep channels on-topic and easy to follow by marking them as threads-only using Smithy. Conversations will be kept threaded, automatically.

• Decisions and results of discussions can get lost. Smithy makes it easy to surface these and make them clear at a glance in the channel to keep your team aligned. Smithy-created threads require a resolution message by default when closing.

• Start new threads with a subject and the first message with a simple slash command. The thread will be authored by you personally and will appear distinctly as a threaded conversation.

• Mark threads as closed with a click of a button available in each thread to mark a discussion as resolved and easier to keep track of at a glance.

• You can also enable the option to auto-close conversations that have been inactive for a period of time to keep things even cleaner in your channels.

Smithy has been built by engineers from a fully remote, distributed company. We've lived through the pains of having to keep track of and manage multiple channels and keeping conversations organised.

You're in good company.