
In many workplaces, Slack has largely replaced email as a daily channel for communication. Instead of lengthy, formal emails between coworkers (that’ll be buried in external email immediately), a private DM is all it takes to get work done.
But as we’re all shooting instant messages and GIFs to each other, we’ve forgotten one important chore: cleaning out DMs and deleting our messages. Most folks don’t think about past Slack messages.