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Sidequest enables you to create task/ticket inboxes right inside Slack – one for each workspace member, and as many channel-based ones as you like. You can CC people, set and track deadlines, chat and share files inside tickets, and receive daily briefings.

Feel free to install Sidequest to your Slack workspace right now, or give it a try in our sandbox workspace first by joining https://join.slack.com/t/sidequestsandbox/shared_invite/zt-f....

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Some feedback from my first 5 minutes with it: I invited it to a private channel we have that really only exists for leaving tasks for other people, ran `sidequest create` in that channel, and it created a task entirely unlinked to that channel - ie: the task appears in the @sidequest user, but there's no sign of it in the channel where it was created. This leaves me wondering what the point of inviting the @sidequest user to channels is.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to report your feedback!

The `/sidequest create` is not context-aware right now, it will behave the same way no matter you invoke it (opens the creation modal).

Inviting the @Sidequest user to a channel (public or private) makes this channel visible to the app and allows users to select it as a recipient when creating a quest.

Will invest more time into documentation before final release. :-)

Ahh, I see. Thanks for the clarification. I'll keep up with trialling it and email you if I find anything. Good luck.

Awesome, looking forward to hearing from you.

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