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I long for a corporate messaging service that incorporates deliberate scheduling. Being forced to choose specific business-wide delivery windows, alongside a /discouraged/ urgent option, feels as though it would go a long way to ameliorating the interrupt-driven messaging culture of most organizations.

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What client are you using for messaging/email?

Not that I'm a huge fan of Outlook, but it has a "delayed delivery" option that schedules when the emails leave your outbox, and an "Urgent" option that highlights the email in the receiver's browser. I don't know if I would want those features in a messaging/chat app. The whole scheduling aspect seems to lend itself to the asynchronous aspects of email. Unless you tailor the notifications in your messaging app, everything is basically "urgent".

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