Slack is fixing its bookmarking system — and maybe taking on Google Docs.
|Slack is becoming a document editor. The Salesforce-owned company announced today at its developer conference that it is building a new feature, called Canvas, that will let users create and edit full docs from within the Slack interface.
You can create one-off documents through Canvas, but each channel will also now automatically have its own associated page. Slack imagines you might use those as a hub for all the important details, links, and information users need for that channel. “That extends the way people are already using Slack today,” says Nate Botwick, a VP of product at Slack. Botwick previously worked at Quip, which Salesforce acquired in 2016 and which powers a lot of the technology underlying Canvas.
Canvas documents are collaborative, too, so multiple people can work inside one at the same time, and all the comments in a document are treated as a separate Slack thread. “When there’s new activity or comments or questions on a canvas,” Botwick says, “I think the probability that someone will see it sooner and respond to it sooner is much higher because it’s all coming in through Slack, and people are spending so much time there.
Slack has spent the last few years trying to shift from a messaging app to a full productivity tool centered around messaging. But message windows aren’t the right interface for everything, and neither is text chat. That’s why Slack has
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