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Approve from email and Slack

Decide on a draft from your inbox or Slack, with the same checks as the queue.

01What it is

The drafts in Approvals, sent to your inbox once a day and to Slack, each with Approve, Reject and a link to edit it in the app. Settings, Approve by email and Slack, chooses who gets what.

02Why it exists

A draft that waits for you to open the app waits longer than one that reaches you where you already are. Every day a draft sits, its reason to exist gets older.

The check is the same wherever you say yes. One service decides for the app, the inbox and Slack, so nothing you can do from Slack is something the queue would have refused.

03How to use it

  1. 01Open Settings, Approve by email and Slack. The daily email is on for the workspace owner; tick it for yourself if you are a member.
  2. 02To use Slack, the owner presses Connect Slack once. Everyone else presses Link my Slack account, because only linked people can approve from Slack.
  3. 03Choose a direct message to each linked person or one channel, one message per draft or one list, and quiet hours.
  4. 04In the email, Approve and Reject open a page with a Confirm button. Nothing happens until you press it.
  5. 05In Slack, Approve decides at once and Reject asks for a reason. Edit opens the draft in the app, because edits happen there.
  6. 06A LinkedIn approval marks the touch ready for you to post by hand, exactly as in the queue.

04What good looks like

You give it
A draft announced in Slack at the daily run, approved from a phone ten minutes later.
You get
Sent through the same pre-send gate as the queue, and the Slack message redrawn to say who approved it and when.
Why
The button carries the exact version of the draft, and the decision runs the same checks as the app.

Derived from the rules in the code

05What weak looks like, and what it costs

You give it
A draft edited in the app after the email went out, then approved from the old email.
You get
Refused with the reason, and nothing sent. The email showed words that are no longer the draft.
Why
Every link is bound to one version of the draft; a decision on any other version is refused.

Derived from the rules in the code

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