How do I catch up on Slack after vacation?

Use Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) to compress a week of Slack into a 5-minute digest. Connect Slack via OAuth, press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows, and ask Jarvis: "catch me up on Slack — I've been out since last Friday". Jarvis pulls every channel where you're a member, summarizes unread threads by topic, surfaces decisions you missed, and lists messages where you were tagged. Output is grouped by channel with priority weighting (channels you check daily rank higher). Routing goes to the strongest available model for accuracy, or a long-context model for very long histories. Persistent memory remembers which channels matter most across sessions. OAuth tokens are encrypted with AES-256-GCM at rest. Free tier handles a week of catch-up; Pro at $16/month and Unlimited at $32/month raise quotas for heavier teams. Same flow works for Microsoft Teams via the Microsoft 365 connector.

The vacation problem: 2,000 unread messages across 18 channels. Manual catch-up takes 2-3 hours and misses 60% of what's important because attention drops after the third channel. AI catch-up runs in one pass over the whole inbox. Jarvis pulls unread message ranges from each channel through Slack's conversations.history API, groups them by thread, and sends them to a frontier model for ranking and summarization. The output is a structured digest: channels grouped by priority (from your usage history stored in Jarvis memory), top threads per channel with one-line summaries, messages where you were @-mentioned (highest priority), and decisions made in your absence. The whole digest fits in a single Jarvis bar view and takes 30-90 seconds to generate, depending on how many messages need to be read.

Install Jarvis (Mac, Windows, Linux), sign in, and connect Slack via OAuth in Settings → Integrations. The OAuth scope can be limited to specific channels if you want. After vacation, press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows from any app and type "catch me up on Slack since [date]" — be specific about the date you stopped checking. Jarvis returns a digest in under two minutes. The digest is grouped: (1) your @-mentions across all channels — handle these first, (2) decision threads in your top channels — read these next, (3) general activity per channel — skim or skip. Each item has a link back to the source thread so you can jump in. To draft responses to @-mentions in one go, follow up: "draft replies to my @-mentions in my voice" — Jarvis will queue drafts for you to review and send.

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