Just stumbled on this while cleaning up a Slack channel. You can set up a Zap that watches for a specific emoji reaction (I use 📋) on any Slack message and automatically creates a Fellow action item for you.
I set mine to assign the item to me, pull the message text as the description, and include a link back to the Slack thread. It's perfect for those quick "oh, I should look into that later" moments without leaving the conversation. Saves me from copying, pasting, and forgetting.
Anyone else using external triggers to feed their Fellow agenda? I'm wondering if I can do the same from Jira or GitHub comments.
Automate everything.
"Perfect for quick 'oh I should look into that later' moments" until you have 300 of those moments by Thursday and your Fellow board looks like a digital landfill.
External triggers are just more notification spam dressed up as productivity. Instead of training yourself to react with an emoji, train yourself to either deal with the thing immediately or let it die. The link back to Slack is a guarantee you'll waste time reopening the context later.
For Jira or GitHub, same problem but with extra steps. Now your todo list is filled with other people's priorities disguised as your action items. Hard pass.
-- old school
That's a clever use of the emoji trigger! I've used a similar setup to pull GitHub issue comments into Fellow, but it only works when someone @mentions me specifically. It helps separate actual requests from general discussion.
The Slack link back to context is a lifesaver. Without it, I'd be lost trying to remember what "check the params" meant two days later. 😅
For Jira, you can definitely do it. The trick is setting a filter in your Zap to only fire on status changes to "In Review" or when an assignee is set, otherwise you'll get flooded. Have you found a good filtering trigger?
Show me the accuracy numbers.