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1) I think there will be a lot more trust: employees operating independently, with trust from their employers. Focus will be on quality output > hours spent.

2) Globalized teams will be the norm, but default to English won't be. Multilinguality will be a requirement on applications.

3) Support for physical and mental health will be a given, not an added bonus.

4) Communication technology will be much, much improved, and communication will be largely asynchronous, except for social occasions.

At least, these are my idealistic hopes! If you're at all interested in 4), my team at Slite is working on building something for improved async communication. You can join the beta at slite.com/next.

I just found slite and it sounds ultra promesing. I just tried it a but, and it feels amazing. You can do a full markdown export. The markdown for sure has not all features, but the basic information is not lost and exported as a whole zip with markdown and image files. That is amazing!

https://slite.com/?redirect=no

Did anyone use this yet?

In the pricing FAQ they state:

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>Do you offer an education discount?
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>Yes, we offer Slite entirely for free to students & teachers. Reach out to [email protected] with your academic email address to redeem this offer.

We use slite.com (for no particular reason) and link to each sop in a google spreadsheet process thats set up for a particular large task. That spreadshseet is shared among everyone. Each SOP contains a video as well of how to do the task being as specific as possible.

Googling SOP software will yield a ton of apps. I haven't used any of them though. My needs are pretty basic. I'm sure there are better ways to do it.

For solo knowledge management: Logseq
For collaborative work, longform discussions, shared wiki: Slite

Logseq/Roam have worked okay for me in terms of project management, but it definitely takes some getting used to. Ended up giving up on them for that and use it for only daily logs, meeting notes, articles/books highlights, etc. For me anyway, as much as I like fiddling with the setup and organization of things in my tools, it's easy to spend more time on that than the actual project when you shoehorn Logseq or Roam into that use case.

There's an underrated website called Slite (https://slite.com/). It's basically the same as Notion (note taking, project management and collaboration) but I find the nested page feature a bit better and the general design cleaner. The only downside I noticed is it doesn't have the calendar feature.

I am guilty of this. Sometimes I simply do not quit Slack, and then mindlessly check it in off-hours, and notice some of my colleagues are also online. Whether people are on Slack intentionally or not, it doesn't make sense to ban weekend use as a top-down approach. Personally, I have co-current obligations with work (as most everyone does) and appreciate some weekend time to get ahead, especially because it's so quiet in terms of chat. When my work tools are open, Slack is open, and I often revisit conversations or threads.

Had an interesting chat with some friends this weekend about choosing to observe the Sabbath, Jewish-style, aka avoiding all technology, being one possible solution to the expectation that we're always on, always available. It's an old solution to a new problem (or perhaps, an old problem as well, just in a new, intensified style).

Anyway, not to promote, but my team is working on healthier communication habits and tools for remote teams - we recently wrote a Slack manifesto, and our tool for decision-oriented discussions is launching very soon. Would love to know what other folks think about improving communication at work (besides not talking on the weekends ;)

Yes I have read their Handbook, thanks for re-sharing anyway!

I can't disclose revenue but we get >2K team signups per week, without running any paid acquisition. We're still small comparing to Gitlab!

On precisely how we run Builds, there's more content on this post if you're interested.

Good luck with building a remote and great business u/r0bbyr0b2!

I'm working in a fully-remote SaaS company that's doing business since 5 years, so it may not apply to your case:

• Hiring is insanely tough. You're looking for skilled people in their area, that are drivers, and good writers
• Work promotion is challenging too. Self-promotion doesn't come naturally to a lot of people, especially those who love to work in a team, and that's a good thing. But without visibility and transparency practices, tons of work will go unrecognized in an async team
• Managing payroll & benefits. In our team, we employ people across 21 cities and 4 continents, and we don't aim at bringing San Francisco salaries to the world. Juggling with the employees, contractors or EOR status brings a lot of complexity

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Good luck!

I'm working fully-remotely in a company that doesn't have any office. So it's a bit the "all-in" situation that you may not looking for.

In all cases, the one new skill you need to learn/develop is writing. From my own experience (I'm not in supply chain but I doubt there are big differences here), what makes great remote position in great companies is how they work. How is not only "remote", but also asynchronous.

Writing is your most important instrument. Use it wrong, and you'll spend your time explaining, rather than expressing. Use it well, and you'll inspire the people around you, even from a distance.

A colleague of mine has written a lot about that, and I can recommend "A great managers is a great writer" to start.

Good luck!

Don't get me wrong, we use threads only for social chat and quick updates/logistics issues like "Does it work for you next Tuesday?". We don't need immediate answer, and I personally use the mentions & reactions sidebar on the right to monitor that.

For the rest, all work interactions happen in Slite, whether it's in Discussions or Documents.

Thanks u/Matails, I'm glad you're liking it. I'm sure #9 doesn't fit in many orgs, but it works the way we do it.

• We get all of our work, documentation and complex communication done in Slite
• Designers work in Figma, Developers in GitHub, Salespeople in CRM
• We use Slack for social chat and updates

That's why 9. is a strong principle that works for us.

>[...] but 95% of our written communication is by Slack
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>The only time I shouldn’t be checking my Slack during the day is when I’m heads-down in a project. It’s a necessity to getting work done.

I believe communication happens where work happens. And work doesn't get done in Slack. Developers discuss issues in GitHub, Product teams discuss them during the shaping phase, Marketers in their documentation or Sales in their CRM.

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>My worst nightmare is having a conversation on one topic in 3-4 different DM tabs.

You named it, all what you need is to discuss work in context, that's something quite critical. Good overall article, just highly dependent on what type of work you do.

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It seems you're super aware of the communication issues and challenges, you may like what we're building for that.

Thanks again for the great feedback on my post!

I don't know where you write your notes now or keep them stored digitally, but I would recommend some software to keep it all straight

1. slite.com is a powerful tool to document all your notes that I currently use the free version of. You can only add so much to it on the free version but it is instantly available anywhere on any device. It has a desktop app and mobile app and the file structure is phenomenal. it has a lot of built in tools and its search bar is super powerful. It is marketed as a business tool but I use it as my personal note taking/Knowledgebase for everything I do. you can also make it as public or as private as your want. I support a knowledgbase for a nonprofit inside my site account and they can only see the pages I organize for them.
2. or www.notion.so Notion is something similar to slite In a lot that it does, but it markets itself to the masses vs just to companies. it claims to be free forever for personal use and has a lot of similar tools and even has templates. I haven't explored it much but it will probably be what i switch to if i ever hit the pay threshold on slite.

Here's the tools I use as Marketing Manager at a fully-remote company.

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- Tasks and to-do: apps do not work out really great for me so I stick with adding them into my Calendar. It magically secures the slot and notifies me!

- Collaboration & Communication: Slite.com (disclaimer: I work there) for all asynchronous communication, management-related documents, project collaboration and updates. 1 Zoom call per week called "Marketing Critique" where we discuss 2/3 creative topics

- Small talk: Slack.com

- Issue management: for complex projects with engineering tasks, Linear.app is pretty neat

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It turns out the most simple it is, the more efficient it works for me.

Cheers

Here's the tools I use as Marketing Manager at a fully-remote company.

- Tasks and to-do: apps do not work out really great for me so I stick with adding them into my Calendar. It magically secures the slot and notifies me!

- Collaboration & Communication: Slite.com (disclaimer: I work there) for all asynchronous communication, management-related documents, project collaboration and updates. 1 Zoom call per week called "Marketing Critique" where we discuss 2/3 creative topics

- Small talk: Slack.com

- Issue management: for complex projects with engineering tasks, Linear.app is pretty neat

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It turns out the most simple it is, the more efficient it works for me.

Cheers

Here's the tools I use as Marketing Manager at a fully-remote company.

- Tasks and to-do: apps do not work out really great for me so I stick with adding them into my Calendar. It magically secures the slot and notifies me!

- Collaboration & Communication: Slite.com (disclaimer: I work there) for all asynchronous communication, management-related documents, project collaboration and updates. 1 Zoom call per week called "Marketing Critique" where we discuss 2/3 creative topics

- Small talk: Slack.com

- Issue management: for complex projects with engineering tasks, Linear.app is pretty neat

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It turns out the most simple it is, the more efficient it works for me.

Cheers

Great call, thanks for sharing!

Mines:
- Tasks and to-do: apps do not work out really great for me so I stick with adding them into my Calendar

- Collaboration & Communication: Slite.com (disclaimer: I work there) for all asynchronous communication, management, project collaboration and updates. 1 Zoom call per week called "Marketing Critique" where we discuss 2/3 creative topics

- Small talk: Slack.com

- Issue management: for complex projects with engineering tasks, Linear.app is pretty neat

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Remote's so great,

Cheers

Thanks for sharing!

I haven't experienced it myself but my CTO did and shared what happened.

• Feeling like your alone on an island
• Keeping your feelings for you
• Reproducing the office model in remote (he identified what wasn't working for him at that very moment)
• The trap - the dark hall
• Moving away and stepping down from CTO role
• Until you find your way

I thought it would be interesting to share. If you want to read the full article, it's there: https://slite.com/blog/remote-diaries-1-remote-burnout

Hope it will help you,

Take care!

Disclaimer: I'm working for <em>Slite</em>, a Communication Software for Remote teams.

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Having joined a fully-remote team since beginning of 2021, I can relate on my personal experience:

1. Long-form writing is to me the greatest communication tool to get people share ideas in a thoughtful & inclusive manner. We basically write notes enriched with sketches, cover videos (quick video like on this note to guide readers through your content) and blocs.
2. When we eventually have sync meetings, most of the work is done beforehand on a note. For example, when I'm running a 1:1 with someone in my team, we make sure to prepare it async. We do comment on each point on the agenda until everything's clearly set.
   For the meeting itself, it's either on Zoom or Around. Maximum 45-min or including a break if any longer.
3. Slack or Teams are great, for small talk.

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Async communication is hard yet so enjoyable when your company sets the right environment.

Hope it helps!

For docs and simple todo lists, I really like dropbox paper as a simpler solution.

slab.com and https://slite.com are much more team focused but worth trying.

Cool list! I noticed you didn't have lots of examples of writing/doc apps. Slite might be interesting to add to the list, they're a remote team building a tool for remote tools to write and work on docs together, and keep up with everything happening across their team.

I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:

• Slite.com

I did the honors for you.

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Name: Slite

Location: Paris, France

Elevator pitch: Slite is the first note app designed entirely for teams. It lets teams create, share & collaborate on content in the simplest way possible.

More details: We are in seed stage, 7 employees to date and just recently got out of our private beta and excited to share our work with the world!

Looking for: feedback! and teams who are struggling to collaborate on content & need a new tool :)