Does anyone else have trouble paying attention to email at all nowadays? Particularly in workplaces that use Slack or other chat software.

I only have the focusing capacity to use one communication medium. I spend tons of mental energy making sure I reply to Slack threads and DM's, but at the end of all of it, my email inbox is sitting with thousands of unreads.

The article says "if it's important, they'll follow up [again over email]", but in my mind at this point, it's more like "if it's important, they'll hit me up on slack."

I think more generally, I hate having multiple communications systems. If we (at the workplace) generally move to Slack for communications, stop emailing me. I won't see it.