So today we're going to be diving into twist threads a powerful feature that you can access
inside of the application we've been using it for a couple of years and we're going to guide you
around to what it is how it works and everything you need to know about it today's video is kindly
sponsored by twist you'll find everything about them in the link in description as a better and
more effective way to communicate in my opinion um and we'll be checking them out in today's video
so let's dive over and explore threads so here we are inside of twist and what I'm going to be
doing is showing you how it works and a little bit more about some of the key features that
I really enjoy now first things first let's describe what threads and what channels are
let's start with channels they're the overarching organization of your system so you see channels on
the left hand side of your screen in this case we have some like editing General meetings and
writing and this helps us to organize each of the threads that are on those particular topics
and it's just better for organization and you can invite certain people to certain channels so they
don't get an overload of all of the information that comes your way so in particular we use the
editing Channel and this leads us nicely on to explaining what threads are now threads
are very simply a way to organize a conversation on a topic that reaches a solution I really like
this concept and it was about two to three years ago that I actually took full advantage of it and
basically sort of change my thinking about communication teams I was previously using
apps like slack and one of the key problems with it was that everything was being consumed around
just in those sort of like conversations whereas there wasn't really an outcome based you're never
really refocusing your attention on what the outcome is so what you can do inside of threads
is basically starter thread and choose topic of conversation so one that we typically do in this
case is week 41 of 2022 and what we can do is summarize some of the things that Steve wants
to focus on for the start of the week and this is a great place for him to land on each time
and find everything you need and what's great is you can reply and only reply to people that are
actually involved in the conversation instead of bombarding everyone with messages now everything
that gets responded to so for example if you reply with somebody say my name then it will go to my
inbox and an inbox is a location that lives inside of your twist account that really tries to bring
the most important stuff the active conversations that are part of the different threads that you
are part of and it helps you to keep focused on what work needs replying to now what's great is
you can use the inbox to clear it and you can press done on certain items to essentially get
through them faster and one thing I really like is for example is being able to go into each of
the different threads so here's one for archetype in November 2022 important dates and go up to the
top right hand corner and save them saving them is something that allows you to almost bookmark
them for later and I love this because I can go to the book well the saved area and be able to
see all of the conversations or threads that I've been having that are really important now one of
the key things that's beneficial is actually closing threads and you can do that here's an
example with July objectives I can go and close this one and what's particularly nice is inside
a twist it allows you to put a conclusion which is perfect for learning outcomes and objectives now
one of the bit ways that you could use this threads and saving function is if you had a
routine place to welcome new employees a thread that is just constantly evolving that you can
keep updated with so you might want to save things like that or maybe even some of the key learning
objectives that you have from your member of staff that's looking after you and this could be quite a
good way but closing threads allows you to give you a breakdown of things that happened in the
past and you can open them again anytime in the future but having that conclusion really gives
you and your team an idea of what's happened in the thread and summaries especially working well
for projects and things like that now they do have a messaging function inside of it which allows you
to do real-time communication but in particular this is something that me and Steve who work who
works as our editor don't really use as much we probably do it every now and then to just
welcome each other in the mornings or something like that but we do it very much asynchronously
where we don't have to be in real time there which is nice and as part of any thread you can actually
add todoist as an integration which is a perfect link up and something that a lot of people do
like about the experience so it's a real weave between all of the sort of um good stuff about
other applications but it has a philosophy around found it that I particularly like and
enjoy so this video was sort of overviewing how that works and operates and I'm being a
Twist user for maybe I would say three years and I found the change in our communication has been
pretty drastic so if you're thinking of setting up twist account today um you can find that Linked
In description below let me know if you have any particular questions about using it because as a
user myself and somebody that really likes this application you can get some of my thoughts and
opinions but I hope you found this video useful in explaining how twist threads work they're a
really refined way of communicating and personally I really like them thank you very much folks for
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