Catch up on a Slack channel in one answer.

Name a channel and Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), a desktop AI assistant, recaps what you missed there today. Press Cmd+/ on macOS or Ctrl+/ on Windows and ask what has happened since you last looked. It separates the updates, the decisions, the questions aimed at you, and the noise you can safely skip. Jarvis reads the recent messages and threads, then gives you a tight recap: the key updates, any decisions, questions aimed at you, and what is safe to skip. It can do this for one channel or several at once. Summarizing runs on frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google. It reads only channels your OAuth scopes allow, tokens are AES-256-GCM encrypted on EU GDPR-aligned infrastructure servers, and nothing trains the models. Jarvis is free to try, then $16/month.

Sometimes you do not want a whole digest, just 'what happened in #engineering today?' Jarvis reads that channel's recent activity, including threaded replies that are easy to miss, and gives you a concise recap: the substantive updates, anything decided, and any message that needs you. It skips reaction-only noise and pleasantries. You can scope the window, today, since 9am, or since you last read it, and ask follow-ups like 'anything about the release?' so you drill into exactly what you care about without scrolling.

A recap is more useful when it leads somewhere. If the channel surfaced a question for you, Jarvis can draft a reply in your voice. If it revealed a task, it can file it in Linear, Asana, or ClickUp. If a decision affects a document, it can check the linked Notion page or Google Doc. So 'what did I miss in this channel?' can flow straight into clearing the items that miss generated, all from the floating bar without opening five tabs.

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