*Slack Notifications* plugin for Roam multiplayer graphs
-Bounty delivered and #RoamGames submission-

Developed by the magician @dvargas92495 to my spec it's designed to work for any multiplayer Roam and will be in David's roamjs.com library
@Conaw @RoamBounties
Benefits
✅ Improves adherence to Roam across the team
✅ Works with any nomenclature for tagging people
✅ Works with any task management system
✅ Slack notification provides customisable context
✅ Easy to set up
One of the biggest challenges of using Roam in a team is getting everyone on the same [[page]] and ((block)) when they need to be. You need to inform people of questions, changes and new responsibilities.
Every multiplayer Roam needs a way to mention other users and should have a way to notify each one. Here's our team's system of notification (thread includes css too)
And here's Roam Research's internal nomenclature
If the team is trying to achieve explicit goals together, then you need a tight, simple and flexible task management system. I haven't documented ours yet (and it's always evolving) but here is an example
See the cute slack icon? It indicates that this hashtag is associated with a slack user and you can send them a notification on slack.
And whabam
This message format, and the Roam tag -> slack user mappings are specified in roam/js/slack.

To give the notification context you can include the {page}, immediate {parent}, {block} content, and {link} straight to the block in Roam.
To make the notifications informative in *any team workflow* you can specify the tags that structure your workflow (in this case #[[🎯 Objective]] ) and the notifications will extract out these parents too
Of course you don't have to use this for task management. You can use it to notify someone of a change, ask them a question (then if they answer you in Roam it's documented) or just tell them you're thinkin' 'bout 'em you know?
Our team already uses this scores of times a day. Please use it and provide feedback and suggestions! Pls test me on its flexibility.

Very soon @dvargas92495 will give technical details and installation instructions in his announcement.
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Est time, < 15 mins.

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